This report came two days before an American soldier was killed in combat in Iraq.
https://youtu.be/1p7khnhzdrc
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Video: Seven Wars?
Author: Redactor
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism,
1946
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Dan Coffey
“They said, ‘We’re going to build this, and you can’t stop us.’ The bristles went up on the back of a lot of people’s heads, and we thought, ‘Hey, let’s just see what we can do.’”
Dan Coffey, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2015
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William Penn
“Reason, like the Sun, is Common to All; And ’t is for want of examining all by the same Light and Measure, that we are not all of the same Mind: For all have it to that End, though all do not use it So.”
William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, #169
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Dan Coffey
“We started off a group of interested citizens that didn’t like the way things were going, particularly the way taxpayer money was being spent in Kansas City. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it.”
Dan Coffey, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2015
Politicians like to spend citizens’ money. But what about those citizens? They tend to want to spend their own money, and not give it up to politicians to spend. Thus, one of the great political tensions of our time. Click on over to Townhall.com for this week’s foray into local politics and the idea of citizens being in charge.
Then come back here for more reading:
- Kansas City Star: Dan Coffey, spokesman for KC citizens group, fights City Hall with gusto
- Kansas City Star: Fight could be brewing over convention hotel petitions
- Kansas City Star: Kansas City streetcar plan stopped in its tracks
- Kansas City Star: Group delivers more signatures on petitions seeking vote on KCI plan
- KSHB TV-41: KCI panel meeting draws protestors at Union Station, one told to leave
- Wikipedia: Mayor Sly James
- Facebook: Citizens for Responsible Government
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Video: Charles Koch, Man vs. Myth
There is no one hated more by today’s “progressive” left than Charles Koch and his younger brother David, the captains of industry and philanthropists. Why? Because they are EVIL? Or just because of their sometimes surprisingly effective political patronage?
So, this interview of Charles Koch, by Megyn Kelly of Fox News, is worth looking at:
The second half of the interview:
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William Penn
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, #537
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Ernest Bramah
“One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.”
Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
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William Penn
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
William Penn