Tag: Economics
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Free to Choose
Milton Friedman’s best-selling book Free to Choose: A Personal Statement is based on a television series by the same name. This book, and the television episodes, are important works that explain the importance of economic and political freedom. You can view the television episodes at IdeaChannel.tv by clicking here.
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Articles of Interest
Journalism, crime alerts, war on drugs, minimum wage, stimulus and education.
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Academic Study Challenges Projections of Green Jobs
Global warming alarmists often argue that transforming our economy to reliance on “green” sources of energy is good because millions of jobs will be created. These new green jobs, it is claimed, will drive our economy forward and create wealth.
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Kansas minimum wage: wrong questions
A recent letter in the Wichita Eagle asks these questions: “Who would work for $2.65 an hour? State legislators don’t get paid much, that is true. But would they work for $2.65 an hour? Would they send their sons or daughters to a job that paid that little?” These questions are intended to stir up…
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Stimulus, the Audacity of Dopes
This is one of my favorite signs from the Wichita Tea Party Protest held on February 27, 2009. Cheryl Green is the creator of the sign; I am merely the photographer.
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We need to not only remember, but to understand the past
Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., wrote an article in a recent company newsletter that explains the similarities between today and the early 1930s, and how our present government leaders aren’t following the lessons we should have learned. The article may be read by clicking on Perspective.
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Articles of Interest
Us v. Them: The People and the Political Class (Jack McHugh, Mackinac Center for Public Policy). “The fundamental problem facing our nation is that true representative government has been supplanted by an inbred, self-serving, self-perpetuating political class that does not represent the people. As a result, the government has escaped the control of the people.”…
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Articles of Interest
Budget woes linked to how justices are chosen (Kris W. Kobach in the Wichita Eagle). Explains how with a better method of selecting Kansas state Supreme Court justices, the Kansas budget might not be in such a mess. “The Montoy decision represented a court determined to advance judicial power and the liberal policy of limitless…
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Articles of Interest
Subsidizing Bad Ideas What are some of the things wrong with the president’s plan to solve the mortgage crisis? Howie Rich of Americans For Limited Government explains: “First, the plan is emblematic of America?s new ?dependence mentality,? which is advanced by politicians like Obama who rhetorically extol the virtues that once made this country great…
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Wichita Tea Party, from AFP
Here’s a message from Americans For Prosperity’s Kansas state director Derrick Sontag about the Wichita Tea Party this Friday. It started with people like you, logging on and signing our petition at NoStimulus.com, and now we have a full-blown grassroots movement on our hands. One such activist, Nancy Armstrong, supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008…
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Area Residents Plan Wichita Tea Party
Grassroots movement sweeps into Wichita with anti-stimulus rally WICHITA — Grassroots activists in Wichita will rally outside Sen. Sam Brownback?s office on Friday, to show their appreciation to the senator for opposing the federal stimulus bill, and to demonstrate their frustration with big government spending. Nancy Armstrong, Garden Plain, organized the rally at 11:30 a.m.…