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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…
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Broad-based Economic Development Will Work Best for Kansas
Read more: Broad-based Economic Development Will Work Best for KansasAlan Cobb of Americans For Prosperity — Kansas argues that instead of micro-management of economic development efforts, Kansas should aim for a businesses climate that’s good for everyone. See Yes, but it’s only $1.3 billion. We should heed this advice locally in Wichita.
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I’m Glad I Won’t Be Reading This Book
Read more: I’m Glad I Won’t Be Reading This BookAt Reason Magazine, Jesse Walker contributes an excellent review of Thomas Frank’s latest book The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. I say it’s an excellent review, but since I haven’t read the subject book, I’m not really qualified to make that judgment independently. But having suffered through some of Frank’s recent columns in the Wall…
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Some Wichita Teachers Can’t Win Gracefully
Read more: Some Wichita Teachers Can’t Win GracefullyHelen Cochran, who was the spokesperson for a group that opposed the recent Wichita school bond, received a few email and telephone messages as part of the campaign that were a little over the top. In one set of messages, a Wichita High School East English teacher (we’ll call him “Kurt”) carried on the legacy…
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The danger of auto industry nationalization
Read more: The danger of auto industry nationalizationIn consideration for a bailout, Congress and the incoming Obama administration insist that the auto industry present a plan for survival of their companies. That sounds reasonable — until you consider that the auto companies must already be operating on a plan, and that plan isn’t working. How can they be expected to come up…
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Bryan Derreberry and the Chamber’s goals for Wichita
Read more: Bryan Derreberry and the Chamber’s goals for WichitaWhen the head of a chamber of commerce speaks or writes, it pays to listen or read carefully. While chambers are nominally pro-business, that’s a long way from saying they’re pro-liberty. Instead, they increasingly exist to serve a narrow interest. Using words and language like “pride,” “community,” “investment,” and “economic development” — all words that…
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Wichita Chamber of Commerce values
Read more: Wichita Chamber of Commerce valuesHere’s a message that Bryan Derreberry, president of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce, sent to Chamber members. Note that this message doesn’t mention the role its political action committee played in the third Sedgwick County Commission district. In that race, the PAC spent some $19,000 of its $48,000 in an effort to elect Goddard…
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Temperature Errors and Response Raise Doubts
Read more: Temperature Errors and Response Raise DoubtsMore coverage of errors in global climate data appears in The Telegraph. The errors were in Russian data, where apparently the September temperature figures were used again for October. A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS…
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Obama’s Education Transformation
Read more: Obama’s Education TransformationAt one time it seemed like Barack Obama might be an education reformer. He was actually booed when speaking before the National Education Association for his support of merit pay for teachers. But after observing Obama’s recent actions, Liam Julian, writing in the National Review Online piece Hoping for Change in Education? comes to this…