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Criticism of Bob Corkins reveals true motivations
Read more: Criticism of Bob Corkins reveals true motivationsI have not met Bob Corkins, but I have read some of his articles. I published several on the Voice For Liberty in Wichita. He is in favor of school choice, and that is one thing that the education establishment, education bureaucrats, and teachers unions are very much opposed to. Never mind that allowing school…
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Book Review: Winning The Future
Read more: Book Review: Winning The FutureThis book by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich outlines his prescription for what America needs to do to avoid decline. The five threats Gingrich identifies are Islamic terrorism, that God will be driven from American life, that America will lose its patriotic sense of self, that America will lose its economic supremacy to…
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TABORTruth.org Not Quite So
Read more: TABORTruth.org Not Quite SoRight away the website tabortruth.org states: “TABOR proponents are baiting citizens with the allure of tax cuts, …” My understanding of proposals for a TABOR in Kansas doesn’t include tax cuts, except in one case. That’s because taxing and spending will proceed in this way: First, spend up to the limit imposed by the sum…
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George W. Bush leads in discretionary spending
Read more: George W. Bush leads in discretionary spendingGeorge W. Bush is one of the biggest spenders of all presidents.
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Fact Sheet: The Truth About Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights
Read more: Fact Sheet: The Truth About Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of RightsThe Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights amendment has been an overwhelming success in Colorado. Colorado’s TABOR has successfully restrained the growth of state government and allowed millions of taxpayers to keep more of their hard-earned money. Since Colorado enacted the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992, the state has experienced one of the strongest economic growth…
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TABOR Fact Sheet: Kansas vs. Colorado
Read more: TABOR Fact Sheet: Kansas vs. ColoradoTABOR Fact Sheet: Kansas vs. Colorado Estimated at 10.4 percent of income, Kansas’s state/local tax burden percentage ranks 14th highest nationally, well above the national average of 10.1 percent. Kansas taxpayers pay $3,629 per-capita in state and local taxes. Kansas ranks 32nd in the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index: Missouri (11th), Oklahoma (14th),…
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Employer-paid health insurance
Read more: Employer-paid health insuranceA Harvard study (Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy) concluded that of families that declared bankruptcy, about half cited medical bills as the reason. Of those, 76% had medical insurance at the time they became sick. Some of the problem is that when people become seriously ill, they can’t work. After they lose their…
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Randy Scholfield and less government
Read more: Randy Scholfield and less governmentThe dictionary defines laudable as “Deserving commendation; praiseworthy” or “Deserving honor, respect, or admiration.” Mr. Scholfield’s past writings don’t treat the goal of less government this way. In fact, it doesn’t seem there is a single government program that Mr. Scholfield doesn’t like and praise.
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Paul Jacobs, Organ
Read more: Paul Jacobs, OrganOn September 20, 2005, Paul Jacobs of the Julliard School of Music played a recital as part of the Rie Bloomfield Organ Series at Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University. I thought Mr. Jacobs was a wonderful player. He seems, at least to my untrained ear, to take more liberties with rhythm and phrasing while…
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Judicial abuse authorized in Kansas
Read more: Judicial abuse authorized in KansasA closed door meeting in early September in Topeka provided the excuse to expand judicial abuse at the highest level of Kansas government. The Commission on Judicial Qualifications met to consider the complaint that Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss should not participate in the school finance lawsuit. This commission decided that Justice Nuss did…
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Book review: What’s The Matter With Kansas?
Read more: Book review: What’s The Matter With Kansas?Much has been written about this book and its premise of the great backlash, the revolt against the increasingly liberal society of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Mr. Frank believes (I think) that working-class social conservatives in Kansas are not using their votes wisely, that they vote for Republicans for social reasons, and in turn Big…
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Prices ration scarce goods
Read more: Prices ration scarce goodsAs the price for gasoline rises, politicians hear increased calls for regulation of gas prices. We hear news stories of hotels increasing prices for victims of hurricane Katrina, and prices for needed goods in the destructed area could rise, too.