Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday November 16, 2010
Future of California. George Gilder, writing in the Wall Street Journal, lays out a grim future for California based on voters’ refusal to overturn AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. Of the...
View ArticlePompeo, back from Washington, gives update
Yesterday Congressman-elect for the fourth district of Kansas Mike Pompeo met in his campaign office with news media for a question-and-answer session. Newly-elected members of the next Congress were...
View ArticleKansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday December 10, 2010
This Week in Kansas. On This Week in Kansas guests Rebecca Zepick of State of the State KS, Joe Aistrup of Kansas State University, and myself discuss Kansas House of Representatives leadership,...
View ArticleKansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday December 21, 2010
Steineger switches teams. Chris Steineger, a Kansas State Senator from Kansas City, has switched to the Republican Party. As a Democrat, Steineger had compiled a voting record more conservative than...
View ArticleWichita’s vision, by the urbanist elites
Why are some in Wichita so insistent on pushing their vision of what our city should look like, and why are they willing and eager to use the coercive force of government to achieve their vision? In...
View ArticleTea party has nothing on Wisconsin union supporters
While the political left likes to portray tea party protesters as racist neanderthals hell-bent on violent overthrow of the U.S. government, the tea party has nothing on government union members when...
View ArticleKansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 2, 2011
Duplication in federal programs found. Washington Examiner Editorial: “Nobody with even minimal knowledge of how public bureaucracies work should be surprised by the Government Accountability Office’s...
View ArticleLies of liberal progressives, Sunday edition
On the C-SPAN television program Washington Journal (Sunday August 14, 2011) Democratic strategist Mark Mellman appeared and gave viewers a lesson on how the political left lies and distorts in order...
View ArticleThe creeping expansion of government power
Trackside is a column written occasionally by John D’Aloia Jr. He lives in St. Marys, Kansas. TRACKSIDE © by John D’Aloia Jr. 12 December 2011 A belief I encounter increasingly often is that, with few...
View ArticleKansas Senator Jerry Moran wants to pick losers in the market: His choice is...
In Kansas, we have a lot of wind — no doubt about that. But the economics of wind as a source of electricity generation is another matter. There’s a split in Kansas over this. On one side are Kansas...
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Kansas newspapers against the children
A Kansas newspaper editorial illustrates that for the establishment, schools — the institution of public schools, that is — are more important than students. An unsigned editorial in the Garden City...
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Opinion: GOP economics devastated Kansas
An op-ed on the Kansas economy needs context and correction. An op-ed about the Kansas economy needs a few corrections before the people of Illinois get a wrong impression of Kansas. The article is...
View ArticleTea party has nothing on Wisconsin union supporters
While the political left like to portray tea party protesters as racist neanderthals hell-bent on violent overthrow of the U.S. government, the tea party has nothing on government union members when it...
View ArticleKansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 2, 2011
Today: Duplication in federal programs found; bureaucrats can't change the way we drive ... but they keep trying; Wednesdays in Wiedemann tonight; Americans for Prosperity website attacked; Kansas...
View ArticleLies of liberal progressives, Sunday edition
A recent television talk show provided viewers a lesson on how the political left lies and distorts in order to score political points against what it sees as easy targets. This activity is necessary...
View ArticleThe creeping expansion of government power
Government increases its scope and power in sometimes small increments, writes John D’Aloia Jr.
View ArticleKansas Senator Jerry Moran wants to pick losers in the market: His choice is...
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas promotes government subsidy for wind power.
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