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• Starwood calls on Wichita

  
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  This Tuesday the Wichita City Council considers economic development incentives to Starwood Hotels & Resorts for a call center to open in Wichita. Besides the usual problems with cronyism and corporate welfare (see Wichita-area economic development policy changes proposed for explanation of some problems), ...
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• IRS Admits Trageting Conservatives for Extra Tax Scrutiny in 2012 Election … Claimed there was No Political Bias Behind the Alinsky Targeting Tactics

  
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  ADD ANOTHER SCANDAL TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATIO … MORE CHICAGO STYLE, SAUL ALINSKY POLITICS … WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO ADMIT THAT OBAMA IS NIXONESQUE? The IRS apologizes for targeting Conservatives and Tea Party groups … apology not accepted! Should this be considered a “hate crime”? The IRS was ...
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• I eh able nuh!

  
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  Today’s Guardian has posted a second article on the CAL situation where Mohan Jaikaran, Vice-Chairman, is using his considerable ‘weight’ to force the airline to be his personal travel agency… [ http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-05-10/cal%E2%80%88offers-luxury-seating-public-officials ]. Now, after ...
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• Big Business and Republicans Say Internet Sales Tax is States’ Rights Issue

  
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  In The Examiner , Tim Carney asks, “When do 21 Republicans senators vote for higher taxes? Answer: When the biggest businesses and local politicians hire top K Street lobbyists to push for the tax-hike legislation.” Read more on Big Business and Republicans Say Internet Sales Tax is States’ Rights Issue… ...
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• Hogs gone wild

  
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  For some unfathomable reason, like Jack Warner was, the Board of Caribbean Airlines appear to be untouchable when it comes to accounting to the people for monies spent/received. I don’t know if, as rumours have it, this is because one George Nicholas III, Chairman, is deeply involved and closely connected to the PM ...
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• Whither The NRA?

  
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  It’ll be interesting to see where the NRA comes down on California’s attempt to ban 3D gun printing.  I can’t think of any other issue where the goals of unfettered, unaccountable gun ownership and maximum gun manufacturer profits aren’t perfectly aligned, much less completely at odds.
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• Entrepreneurial activity, Kansas vs. other states

  
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  Entrepreneurship is important for a growing and dynamic economy. The performance of Kansas in entrepreneurial activity is not high, compared to other states. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation prepares the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity . According to the Foundation, “The Kauffman Index of ...
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• R&L Preview: Peter Schweizer on our Cronyist Culture

  
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  After being sentenced to federal prison in 2001 for racketeering, Louisiana’s former governor Edwin Edwards, long famous for his corruption and political antics, humorously quipped, “I will be a model prisoner as I have been a model citizen.” In his 1983 campaign for governor against incumbent David Treen, ...
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• Neofeudalism? In YOUR Nonprofit? (It’s more likely than you think)

  
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                Are you looking to hire someone in your nonprofit? Are you considering different resumes, and thinking about “should we hire this person who has been unemployed for awhile, or someone who has a job currently?” Here’s the startling truth about long-term unemployed people. Paul ...
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• Warren Buffetts $600 Million Interest-Free Taxpayer Loan

  
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  PART TWO OF EXPOSING BUFFETT How The Government HOSES You To Help The Insanely Rich Start wartching at the 1:15 mark. Buffett has more than 30 years to pay back half the loan and the whole enhcilada is interest-free courtesy of you and me. -- David Cay Johnston, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner The problem ...
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• Why Is The US Government Subsidizing A UAE Airline?

  
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  Good grief! Why on earth would the United Arab Emerites airline need subsidies from the US government? This is insane. Ken Blackwell brings us the news that the Department of Homeland Security is funding a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport in the UAE. The ...
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• Wichita sees results of new economic development policy

  
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  The first action under a new Wichita economic development policy doesn’t produce economic growth, and in fact, harms the Wichita economy. A feature of Wichita’s recently-revised economic development policy grants property tax and sales tax forgiveness for speculative industrial buildings. These are ...
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• Al Gore: How a hypocrite mixes politics and crony capitalism to become Super Wealthy

  
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  Al Gore (a.k.a. Algore), one of the biggest hypocrites in the history of American politics, has become super wealthy since leaving Congress. You may recall Algore’s various claims to fame including that he invented the internet and that he is an environment and climate expert. He’s such an expert that he bought ...
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• Cronies, Cronies and more Cronies!

  
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  Big Government is working hard every day to help it’s friends most of whom are working hard to take advantage of us. Big Banking, Big Green, Big Medicine, Big Drugs, Big Insurance and the list goes on and on. Stossel has a really good video looking at this problem. Check it out if you have time. Click on the image ...
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• Corker: Watt heading Federal Housing Finance Agency = “fox guarding the hen house”

  
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  As you’ve probably already heard, in the latest example of this administration’s naked cronyism (THIS WEEK), President Obama has nominated my Congressman in Name Only – Mel Watt – to oversee the Federal Housing Finance Agency.   The nomination has already sparked controversy, and for  good reasons : ...
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• Why Not? It’s Only Money!

  
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  Back in 1997 class-action lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman was filed by Timothy Pigford and 400 southern black farmers who apparently had legitimate claims of discrimination against the U.S.Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its allocation of farm loans between 1983 and 1987. For farmers, the cost of planting is high — ...
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• Nationals celebrity-cronyism

  
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  Last month the government appointed former squash player Susan Devoy as Race Relations Commissioner . The appointment has been widely criticised due to Devoys lack of qualifications for the role, and in office she has been even worse than expected , with Devoy publicly wallowing in self-pity , Christine ...
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• The Breaking Wall

  
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  For some time, the UNC-PP coalition held a tightly knitted position regarding Jack Warner. Regardless of the many (and there were very many) reports of underhanded and opprobrious shenanigans regarding the channelling of public funds for private gain, Jack Warner remained untouchable. This is not to say that he was ...
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• Worst. Political. Class. Ever.

  
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  P retty much everybody knows Obamacare is a disaster. I mean, everybody who has an ounce of sense. Obviously, that excludes a lot of rank and file Lefty Democrats who think Obamacare is actually a fix or a cure for something, but most of those people are simple dolts anyway. But, apparently there’s plenty of ...
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• DFL legislature votes against government accountability

  
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  True to their waste-aholic history, the DFL legislature voted against government accountability : A commission designed to judge whether state agencies, councils or boards have outlived their usefulness may itself cease to exist. The Democratic-controlled House and Senate have voted to abolish the Sunset ...
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