Category: United States government
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Jerry Moran Clarifies Attitude Towards Obama Administration
At the general meeting at Kansas Days on January 31, Kansas first district congressman Jerry Moran sought to clarify or recast the impression a news story left in the minds of attendees. A Wichita Eagle news story headlined Moran: Obama easier to work with than Bush starts with the sentence “The day after filing to…
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Todd Tiahrt to Speak at Wichita Pachyderm Club
On Friday February 6, 2009, United States Congressman for the fourth district of Kansas Todd Tiahrt will speak at a meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club. Rep. Tiahrt is a candidate for the United States Senate. His congressional district includes Wichita and most of south-central Kansas. The club meets at the Whiskey Creek Steakhouse in…
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Didn’t Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation free your ancestors?
The hypocrisy of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation came in for heavy criticism. His Secretary of State William Seward said, “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.” … President Obama can be forgiven for celebrating the hypocrisy of Abraham…
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Welcome to Washington
I am not entirely sure it is not, but my personal impression is that nothing makes people more cynical about government than working for it. I have never heard a libertarian speak about the futility of most government departments the way American and foreign officials often do in restaurants or bars on Capitol Hill, on…
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What does Success Mean for President Obama?
Today’s Wichita Eagle editorial is typical of many that wish our new president success — for the good of the nation, of course. What, however, does success for President Obama mean? There are two (or more) ways that success might be realized. One definition of success is that President Obama is able to lead our…
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Barack Obama and the Price of Change
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, an important organization dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government, has a short (one minute) video that does a little arithmetic and arrives at the price of President-elect Obama’s plans for economic stimulus. Hint: it’s a pretty big number.
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Accountants Seek Bailout
By Warner Todd Huston Washington — In this current economic climate, bailouts for industries in the private sector are quickly becoming the chief form of reform and stability. From newspapers to the financial sector to the auto industry, Congress is infusing life saving money into the bloodstream of the country?s economy. But one sector is…
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Huelskamp announces a run for Congress
Kansas Liberty reports in the post Huelskamp announces a run for Congress: “[Kansas State] Sen. Tim Huelskamp, the veteran Fowler Republican, has announced he’ll pursue a seat in the U.S. Congress for 2010.” I think he’d make a great United States Congressman.
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Hard to believe, but not everyone in politics wants a free lunch
Writing in the Wall Street Journal (Governors Against State Bailouts), the governors of Texas and South Carolina argue against bailouts: “It is also taking our country in a very dangerous direction — toward a ‘bailout mentality’ where we look to government rather than ourselves for solutions.” Unfortunately, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius doesn’t agree. She’s very…
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The danger of auto industry nationalization
In 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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News Media Coverage of Presidential Campaign
ARRA News Service reports on a Zogby poll and links to a video that illustrate the poor job the national news media did covering the recent presidential campaign. The video is interesting although a little repetitive. The poll results are something else, though. Zogby found that 86.9% thought that Sarah Palin said that she could…
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End Taxpayer-Funded Competition Between the States
A Wichita Eagle story (Development speaker touts power of cash) reports on an economic incentive expert’s evaluation of our state’s effort. (It’s revealing to learn that an accounting firm has someone with the title “regional leader of credits and incentives,” whose duty, evidently, it is to help companies figure out which state’s incentives are most…