Kansas Meadowlark

The editorial in today’s Kansas City Star, “Wanted: Fiscal responsibility in candidate plans,” compared proposals by Senators Obama and McCain:

Experts say both candidates’ economic proposals would increase the federal deficit. That’s unacceptable. The country is ready for a president who will model fiscal responsibility.

The topic of this editorial is welcome, but why is the Star writing an editorial about fiscal responsibility when they support most tax increases, and do such little investigative reporting about waste of tax dollars? Why does the Star do so little to promote accountability in government? (more…)

Ken Marrero from The Sam Adams Alliance greeted right-center bloggers from Kansas at SamSphere Kansas held yesterday in Topeka. The SamSphere “About” page describes the Samsphere meetings held in Chicago in March, and in Denver in April and yesterday in Topeka:

SamSphere is a new media forum, hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance, where bloggers and e-activists … can gather together to network and share ideas. SamSphere is specifically geared toward bloggers and e-activists who focus on local and state-level politics, and who are dedicated to the principles of individual freedom and limited government.

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Like Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, you’re against that dirty coal power plant in Western Kansas polluting our air with carbon dioxide? But being “green” is something for others especially when you can fly with the Governor on the State’s plane to a sports event?

Let’s start this story with a trip to New Orleans to watch KU in the NCAA Basketball Final Four in 2003. Wouldn’t you want to join Gov. Sebelius in this wonderful plane paid for by Kansas taxpayers:

The Governor’s Executive Airplane: N350KS

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Why did the Kansas press give this new information resource such little coverage? No article about KanView can be found by the Kansas City Star. Read the rest of this entry …