Koch Industries Archives - Page 8 of 9 Voice For Liberty

Oct

Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday October 13, 2010

FactFinder 12: Goyle campaign ad. From KWCH Television: "FactFinder 12 found no evidence Sentry International directly outsourced manufacturing work, only that it partners with companies in China and many other countries to purchase foreign made products." What's not talked about in regard to this issue is that U.S. companies don't manufacture products overseas just for the heck of it. Competitive pressures force them to. The energy future will look familiar. George Will takes a look at the future of energy in America. But a reminder of the past, in case you forgot: "In 1977, Jimmy Carter said mankind could 'use…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday October 12, 2010

Wichita Visioneers in Louisville. The Wichita Business Journal's Emily Behlmann reports on a trip by Wichitans to Louisville to get ideas on transforming Wichita's downtown. Hopefully they won't get this idea, as reported yesterday by the Louisville Courier-Journal: "The heavily subsidized 4th Street Live entertainment district has come under criticism from locally owned businesses for receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks and government subsidies -- including a controversial, $950,000 city loan that won't necessarily have to be repaid." According to Wichita planner Goody Clancy, heavy subsidy isn't supposed to be necessary in Wichita. And, I hope all the planners…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

U.S. business under attack by its own government

Who would have thought that President Barack Obama would take a page -- maybe an entire chapter -- from the Richard Nixon political playbook? A Review & Outlook piece in the Wall Street Journal explains the connection. The subject is campaign fund disclosure: "Democrats claim only to favor 'disclosure' of donors, but their legal intimidation attempts are the best argument against disclosure. Liberals want the names of business donors made public so they can become targets of vilification with the goal of intimidating them into silence. A CEO or corporate board is likely to think twice about contributing to a…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday October 10, 2010

Countryman back on air: Gene Countryman, host of a long-running radio show that went off the air earlier this year, returns to the airwaves tonight with the Gene Countryman Show. The new show airs Sunday evenings from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on KNSS Radio 1330 AM. Koch article criticism: Andrew Ferguson, media critic for Commentary, provides a critical look at the left-wing hysteria over Jane Mayer's New Yorker Magazine "exposé" of Charles Koch, David Koch, and Koch Industries. Best quote: "The only support in Mayer’s article for this extravagant charge comes from second-hand assertions, usually in quotes from the…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

Liberal politics: The paranoid style

This month Andrew Ferguson, media critic for Commentary, provides a critical look at the left-wing hysteria over the New Yorker "exposé" of Charles Koch, David Koch, and Koch Industries. Ferguson is quite critical -- justifiably -- of the New Yorker article: "The only support in Mayer’s article for this extravagant charge comes from second-hand assertions, usually in quotes from the brothers’ critics. Many are anonymous. Others are incompletely identified. Conservative think tanks and activists are carefully pinned with the ideological tag; liberal think tanks and left-wing activists are, well, just think tanks and activists." Other targets of Ferguson's include MSNBC…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

Lynn Jenkins: The only jobs Democrats care about are their own

Lynn Jenkins, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the second district of Kansas, writes that actions by Congressional Democrats are harming jobs prospects for Americans: "The American people elected us to do our jobs, but instead of focusing on that, Democrats in Washington have decided to wage a campaign against the very companies that eventually will get us out of this economic mess." In particular, Jenkins mentions Wichita-based Koch Industries as a company working hard to create jobs and value in the marketplace, only to suffer criticism from President Barack Obama, his administration, and his political allies.…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

Political attacks by Obama camp endanger opportunity

By Ronald Gidwitz As a recovering politician (I ran for governor of Illinois in 2006), I know it's seldom a good idea to hint that voters are dupes. Sometimes, though, in an attempt to "divide and conquer," politicians do just that. Lately we've seen President Barack Obama and his team, who ran for office on the claim they would bridge political differences, playing this foolish and ultimately self-defeating dividing game. "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the…

Oct

By Bob Weeks

More left-wing hatred, less facts

Reason points out how New York Times columnist Frank Rich simply does not understand the issues he's trying to cover. Either that, or he simply lies to make his left-wing, anti-capitalist political points. Matt Welch shows how Rich's attempt to create an interesting conspiracy theory ignores all available facts. Frank Rich's Connect-the-dots Errors By Matt Welch New York Times conspiracist Frank Rich had a column over the weekend positioning the Christine O'Donnells of the world as "useful idiots" providing "populist cover" for shadowy billionaires, especially the Koch family, who are cashing in on anti-government sentiment they themselves don't believe in,…

Sep

By Bob Weeks

Mine safety regulations: do they work?

The mainstream media attack on Charles Koch, David Koch, and Koch Industries has reached the state of West Virginia. This time a newspaper criticizes the Charles G. Koch Foundation for supporting a "conservative Morgantown think tank and several positions at the West Virginia University economics department." A specific target of criticism is West Virginia University economics professor Russell S. Sobel and a collection of essays he edited. Here's what the Charleston Gazette printed in an article: "One essay questions the value of 'mandated' mine safety laws, stating government regulations may increase accident rates." Lobbing a brick like this doesn't do…

Sep

By Bob Weeks

New York Times’ criticism of Koch Industries

The anti-human agenda of the New York Times is on full display in its criticism of Charles Koch, David Koch, and Koch Industries regarding a contribution to the campaign against the AB32 ballot measure in California. To the Times, the question of man-made global warming and its purported harm is fully settled. Anyone who questions this is labeled a crank -- or worse. Slowly but surely, the contradictions of the global warming alarmists are being revealed. Writing in the Washington Times, Richard Rahn points out the conflict of interest inherent in many of the global warming alarmists: It is also…