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Susan Wagle for Kansas Senate President
Read more: Susan Wagle for Kansas Senate PresidentTomorrow, the Kansas Senate meets to select its leadership. Senate Republicans could do Kansans a favor by electing Susan Wagle of Wichita to be senate president.
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Pat Buchanan Tallies the Total
Read more: Pat Buchanan Tallies the TotalThe news from Washington over the past few months — $25 billion here, $700 billion there — is hard to keep track of. The amounts themselves are huge, but when added together, the sum is beyond comprehension. Pat Buchanan, in his column Socialist Republic, adds it up: Thus, we have the $700 billion Bush bank…
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New York Times: 10 Weeks of Financial Turmoil
Read more: New York Times: 10 Weeks of Financial TurmoilThe New York Times has a nicely-done interactive timeline of the events since September 7, 2008, when the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It holds video and links to news stories. It’s more than a little unsettling to replay these events. Click here to see the bad news.
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The Austrian Prescription for Today
Read more: The Austrian Prescription for TodayMurray N. Rothbard, in his book For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, wrote a chapter that is highly relevant to the situation we face today. Unfortunately, if Rothbard’s analysis of the business cycle using Austrian economics is correct — and I believe it is — what’s going on presently in Washington, and what president-elect…
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Obama Deserves a Scarlet “H” for Hypocrisy
Read more: Obama Deserves a Scarlet “H” for HypocrisyAt the Goldwater Institute, Clint Bolick exposes Barack Obama as another in a long line of politicians that deny school choice to the masses, but exercise it themselves: During the campaign, Obama stated that school choice doesn’t work. If he believes that, why not simply send the girls to whatever school the District of Columbia…
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Introducing Economics in One Lesson
Read more: Introducing Economics in One LessonIn This Book is So Me, Walter Block introduces a book that I’ve quoted from and used extensively: Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Every widespread economic fallacy embraced by pundits, politicians, editorialists, clergy, academics is given the back of the hand they so richly deserve by this author: that public works promote economic…
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Just Say It: We Need to Raise Taxes in Kansas
Read more: Just Say It: We Need to Raise Taxes in KansasRhonda Holman’s Wichita Eagle editorial today (State budget pain must be shared) makes the case for raising Kansas taxes without directly saying so. It’s actually quite artful the way she dodges actually saying what she wants Kansas legislators to do. Using language like “Nobody ever wants to raise taxes …” and “Lawmakers also must not…
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Wichita School District Employees Comment on the Bond Issue
Read more: Wichita School District Employees Comment on the Bond IssueHere at the Voice For Liberty in Wichita, I wrote many articles about the USD 259 (Wichita school district) bond issue that district voters passed a few weeks ago. A few people took issue with what I’d written. Taking advantage of my policy that allows anonymous comments, they left some comments. It turns out that…
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Toward a Free America
Read more: Toward a Free AmericaAs our country works its way through a period of turmoil, we must remember that there is another way than what those on the left and right propose. That way, the way of liberty, is the subject of For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray N. Rothbard. (The book is available to read…