“It’s better late than never.” We echo that sentiment of a new Missouri law aimed at making sure mental health care is covered by insurance at the same level as physical health. The Missouri Independent…

Before the polls had even opened Tuesday morning, Larry Elder blamed voter fraud for what he sensed would be a losing campaign to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election.  Elder was the…

It’s time to have a chat about Texas. Yet again decisions made in the Lone Star State are affecting the Sunflower State. Frankly, it’s getting old.  This time, it’s restrictions on abortion access are causing…

A majority of Americans sighed in relief Thursday when President Joe Biden announced that about 80 million Americans — including those at large-scale industries, health care workers, federal employees and  contractors — will be required…

Of course the pro-gun-regulation activist and former ATF agent President Joe Biden nominated to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives couldn’t pass Senate muster. What do you expect, a critic of Big…

Former President George W. Bush used the occasion of a 9/11 speech to criticize the Jan. 6 insurrectionists and other U.S. political extremists. “We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can…

Though Jair Bolsonaro’s opponents warned of the dangers, most voters in the world’s fourth largest democracy were willing to elect a declared admirer of dictatorship. Many are now having second thoughts. The president’s popularity has…

Statistics from Dr. David Prezant, the FDNY’s chief medical officer, show that three out of four firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians who labored on The Pile in the days, weeks and months after 9/11…

A thread running through many dictatorships is leaders’ total certainty that they know what’s best for people. With a monopoly on political power, control over the use of force and dominance over communications, they impose…

On Friday, Johnson County and Morris County officials were sued for requiring students to wear face masks to guard against COVID-19. Of note is that the lawsuit naming Kansas City’s Blue Valley district is directed…