Good luck with this. I guess I am still surprised with the mainstream media — that left-leaning executives and investors (who want to make money) hire very liberal news management (who are more concerned about advancing an agenda than making a profit for the company), and that they all would rather go out of business instead of simply making a product that most Americans would | Read More »
KU professor Stephen Ware: ”This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens.” The Kansas judicial selection model is unlike any other state. Like many states, Kansas uses the elitist, undemocratic ”Missouri system,” where law-degree-holders (not necessarily the same thing as those who know more about the law) have far more | Read More »
In the 2002 movie “Signs,” Colleen Hess gave her youngest son Merrill a cryptic, deathbed command to “swing away.” Only years later, with his own life at risk, did Merrill understand what this meant. With confidence, Merrill “swung away.” The challenge was unclear, but it was was large and right in front of him, and Merrill could not and did not miss. Merrill “swung away” with | Read More »
As people smarter than me have said, such as RedState’s Dan McLaughlin and The Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, there is no precedent for BOTH the national polls being correct, and Barack Obama winning re-election. If Obama wins, either national polls have been wrong about Independent voters, or Obama sets a new precedent. Here are national exit polls for 2000, 2004, and 2008. In 2000: George W. Bush won | Read More »
The Topeka Capital-Journal joined Democratic Senate leader Anthony Hensley in: Promoting tax and spend policies that damage businesses Insulting a major business after it leaves town Stating clearly that they expect businesses to ask their approval and permission before making decisions Proposing anti-business “solutions” — picking winners and losers by taking money from most businesses, and giving “incentives” to a small number of businesses Sending | Read More »
Above is the audio for a phone call about John Toplikar, the Republican choice and fiscal conservative choice for Johnson County Commission. It’s in southwest Johnson County, a suburb of Greater Kansas City. The district has about 50,000 voters, which is larger than a state senate district in Kansas. The call was paid for by Kansans for State & Local Reform, which I chair. Audio: | Read More »
From the political left and the right, non-Kansans sometimes look at Kansas politics and scratch their heads. One word explains much of it: ”McClatchy,” which owns the rabidly anti-cultural conservative Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star. Fortunately, the Internet has almost eradicated the problem, and I can tell you that in the KC metro area, conservatives simply ignore The Star, in part because we don’t need | Read More »
Brief update: At the end of the article, I’m going to pre-emptively write a rebuttal to unfair and misleading attacks about John Toplikar, the kind that appeared at the original location to the video below (at mrcTV.org), and which were written by anonymous commenters who won’t go on the record. Above is the audio for a phone call about John Toplikar, the Republican choice | Read More »
Poll: Three out of four likely voters say reporters try to help candidates. And by a 59-18% margin, voters say Barack Obama received better coverage than Mitt Romney. Click here or below to listen to the audio of Paul Ibbetson’s interview of Benjamin Hodge. Broadcast date August 31, 2012. Click here to read the Rasmussen poll. Some of the questions: When covering a political | Read More »
It seems like every mainstream media outlet says that “moderates” or “moderate Republicans” lost in the Senate primaries of Tuesday, August 7. Nope. Listen to the interview between Paul Ibbetson, host of 105.7 FM’s “Conscience of Kansas” program, and Benjamin Hodge about the major conservative victories over the far-left “Republicans” in the Kansas Senate in the August 7 primary elections. “The Conscience of Kansas” runs | Read More »
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