Tag: Featured
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Cronyism is welfare for rich and powerful, writes Charles G. Koch
The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism, writes Charles G. Koch.
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Club for Growth scorecards
I’ve gathered Congressional scorecards from Club for Growth for all years available and present them in an interactive visualization.
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Gosnell, the movie
Seeking to tell the story of the Kermit Gosnell, most prolific serial killer in American history, filmmakers Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer, and Magdalena Segieda ask for your help.
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In Kansas, base state aid is only a small part of spending
Considering only base state aid per pupil leads to an incomplete understanding of school spending in Kansas. The Gannon school finance decision reinforces this.
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After Gannon, will Kansas public school spending boosters still love courts and constitutions?
Will Kansas Progressives’ expressed love for courts and constitutions hold up in light of the school finance decision?
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas school finance lawsuit, problems solved?
The Kansas Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Gannon v. Kansas, the school finance lawsuit. What did the court say, and did it address the real and important issues with Kansas schools?
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Wichita City Council fails to support informing the taxed
What does it say about Wichita’s economic development strategy that if you fully inform citizens and visitors, it renders a tool useless?
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Rural Kansans’ billion-dollar subsidy of wind farms
In addition to receiving taxpayer subsidies and benefiting from mandates to buy their product, wind power producers largely escape the burden of property taxes, writes Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
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In Kansas, the Blob is worked up
In Kansas, we’re seeing the Blob at full activation, vigorously protecting its interests against school reforms.
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Washington Post out on a limb, again
The Washington Post has published an article that is demonstrably false, and for political reasons.
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In Wichita, if you don’t like it, just don’t go there
As Wichita city officials prepare a campaign to raise the sales tax in Wichita, let’s recall some council members’ attitude towards citizens.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: For whose benefit are elections, school employment, wind power, unions, unemployment
The controversy over the timing of city and school board elections provides an insight into government. Then: Can a candidate for governor’s claims about Kansas school employment be believed? Wind power is expensive electricity, very expensive. A Wichita auto dealer pushes back against union protests. Finally, what is the real rate of unemployment in America?