The Kansas Progress

MARCH ON, MY FRIEND — Matt Kibbe

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:59:16 +0000

The Morning After, I struggle to find the words to fully explain the significance of what happened yesterday at the March on Washington. The day belongs to the thousands of volunteers who joined together to organize this marvelous day. To those who worked so hard, and to every single American that marched: Thank [...]

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PATRIOTS MARCH ON DC — Brendan Steinhauser

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:58:14 +0000

Yesterday was a historic day for freedom. But if you watch television news, or read the newspapers, you wouldn’t know it. Only C-SPAN really captured the event, with their live broadcast from the West Front of the Capitol Building. The media coverage was absolutely pathetic, grossly underestimating the size of the crowds at Freedom Plaza [...]

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Back to Plan A: The Courts — By Mario Diaz

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:50 +0000

For many years liberal radicals have advanced their agenda with great success through our courts. Knowing that their policies are not supported by the vast majority of Americans, they have turned to liberal judges who distort our laws and the Constitution to bring about what they view as “progress.” That is why when President Obama was [...]

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Deficit $4 Trillion More — Brian Riedl

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:53:53 +0000

In reality, the President’s budget agenda would result in: An additional $5 trillion in spending, $1 trillion in revenues, and $4 trillion in deficits over the next decade; Budget deficits adding $13 trillion to the national debt over the next decade; The national debt held by the public surpassing $20 trillion by 2019, reaching [...]

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Congress and Obama Show Contempt for Americans — Brian Darling

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:52:51 +0000

Congress is showing contempt for the American people by excluding them from the crafting of Obamacare. The president promised in his campaign he’d deliver transparency, saying, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table” with everybody involved. Those that can’t make it would be able to see “the negotiations televised on C-SPAN.” [...]

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Nat’s Taxpayers Union — 107 Economists Agree: Limits on Government Promote Stability and Growth

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:52:09 +0000

We, the undersigned economists,* write in support of sensible limits on the growth of government at the state and local level. Although there has been much debate on such efforts in the political sphere, a large body of academic research clearly shows that lower tax rates and modest growth in government spending help to promote [...]

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ATR — Maine’s Private Sector Shrinking, TABOR Needed

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:51:31 +0000

According to the 2009 Edition of Rich States, Poor States: ALEC Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index, Maine is ranked 47th of the states in its Economic Outlook Rank. Jonathan Williams and co-authors Steve Moore and Arthur Laffer used 15 policy variables when grading the states. One of those policy variables was spending limitations.

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FRC — Support Our Troops Earmarks

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:48 +0000

Our troops will be interested to know that the Senate is focused on bringing home a victory in one campaign: their own. When the chamber marked-up the Defense appropriations bill, some Senators started siphoning away billions of dollars in military equipment for their own pet projects. At last count, there were over 778 earmarks attached [...]

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ATR — Senate Budget Staff: House Dems’ Fully Implemented Health Bill to Cost $3 Trillion

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:08 +0000

This weekend, after casting previous no-tax-increase promises on the part of the President and transparency promises by Speaker Pelosi aside, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Democrats’ monstrosity of a health bill at a vote of 220 to 215. One in seven Democrats and all but one Republican opposed the bill.

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Bypassing confirmation, a platoon of bureaucrats sets federal policy — Edward Lee Pitts

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:47:26 +0000

WASHINGTON-In Russia the last czar, Nicholas II, died in 1918, shot by Bolshevik revolutionaries. But the title did not die with his assassination. It simply migrated to Washington.

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