Kansas Citians – This Friday, a local government event at Blackdog Coffee with Osterhaus, Funkhouser, Sheriff Myers, and more
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 13th at 03:31 PM |
I hope you’ll consider attending this. It should be fun and informative. It’s free, but there are space limitations, so please make your RSVP as soon as you can. This is a free event at the Lenexa coffee shop called Blackdog Coffeehouse. The easiest way to register is on Facebook. Or, you can go to my Web site to Email me or to get my phone number | Read More »
“Hate Crimes” – Thomas More Law Center Files Appeal in Dismissal of Lawsuit
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 10th at 05:03 PM |
“Hate Crime” laws can sound like a good thing, but they’re dangerous for at least four reasons: At best, they’re nearly impossible to effectively enforce, and to apply equally to all defendants in criminal trials. How does a prosecutor or jury enter a defendant’s mind to know what he or she was thinking, at the time of a crime? It’s difficult enough to prove that | Read More »
Ron Paul to run US House subcommittee that oversees Federal Reserve
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 10th at 12:05 PM |
Via Drudge. Bloomberg: Paul, in an interview last week, said he plans a slate of hearings on U.S. monetary policy and will restart his push for a full audit of the Fed’s functions. … His campaign to audit the Fed picked up steam as the central bank deployed trillions of dollars in emergency loans in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great | Read More »
Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell: First known elected black Democrat to become a Republican in Georgia
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 9th at 11:31 AM |
Visit Ashley Bell’s public Hall County Commission page here. Press release, via Peach Pundit: Atlanta-Ashley Bell, former National President for the College Democrats of America, 2004 superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention and Hall County Commissioner, will join the Republican Party tomorrow. Bell is the first African-American elected official to switch parties. “I’m joining the Republican Party because I’m a conservative and simply feel more at | Read More »
Club for Growth says “No Deal” on Tax Plan
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 9th at 11:04 AM |
WASHINGTON – The Club for Growth today declared its opposition to the tax compromise proposal reached yesterday by President Obama and congressional Republicans. “This is bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people,” said Club President Chris Chocola. “The plan would resurrect the Death Tax, grow government, blow a hole in the deficit with unpaid-for spending, and do so without providing | Read More »
Denver Post’s Vincent Carroll: End tax subsidies, tariffs, and blending requirements for ethanol
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 5th at 04:11 PM |
I wrote last week that Kansas’ Sam Brownback is one of 13 Senators who want to continue the not-supported-by-science federal laws that do two things: place tariffs on foreign ethanol, and give tax credits to American ethanol producers. Here is Vincent Carroll at The Denver Post on a separate coalition of 17 Senators: As it happens, a bipartisan coalition of senators, ranging from Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to | Read More »
Washington Post on Cancun global warming summit: “No surprise that [UN leader] appealed to a Mayan goddess”
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 4th at 06:02 PM |
The liberal Democratic Washington Post is mocking the UN summit: With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it’s no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening | Read More »
Sam Brownback signs letter supporting bailouts and bad science
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 2nd at 09:35 PM |
This is unfortunate. Even Al Gore says that federal subsidies of corn-based ethanol is bad policy, according to Reuters. But six Republican Senators — including Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas — and seven Democratic Senators want to extend federal tax credits for the production of ethanol, which uses an enormous 41% of American-grown corn. These tax credits, along with taxes added to foreign imports, are scheduled | Read More »
Articles of interest, December 1
By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary) | December 1st at 11:39 AM |
Articles you might find interesting: Late-term abortions for nation’s capital: Nebraska’s late-term, post-viable abortionist LeRoy Carhart to open shop outside of Washington, DC. National Journal: Democrats’ Diversity Problem. Republicans are successfully recruiting minority candidates. Bring out your dead: New York’s organ wagon to make house calls to collect kidneys from the just-died. Five Schools of Thought on Earmarks – Club for Growth Google to begin e-book sales Mike Huckabee - Execute | Read More »
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