Tornados can touch down anywhere. They happen so frequently in Kansas they’ve become part of the lore. We’ve seen them in such art as “Tragic Prelude” in the Kansas Statehouse and the more synonymous film…

Last week, Gov. Laura Kelly made three groups of people plenty mad, likely with some crossover. First, Kelly vetoed a measure Friday that would have recognized “fetal personhood.” The measure ruled that from the moment…

When Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling in April 2023 suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion pill, Democrats were furious. How could a lone judge in small-town Texas deprive millions of…

A sure sign that you’re living in a dictatorship is that the government dictates what you can sing. That’s now the policy in Hong Kong, er, Little Beijing, as a court has endorsed the government’s…

While TV news was glued last week to Stormy Daniels’ tell-all testimony and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, scant attention was paid to Vladimir Putin’s tsar-like coronation for a fifth term. Nor to his bellicose parade of Russia’s…

If cell phones had been as prevalent as they are today in my mom’s time, she would have kept hers on mute.  I can’t tell you how many times she answered the phone in an…

In November 2021, I wrote  on the prevalence of lead pipes in our state.  The number of lead pipes in Kansas is particularly high, comparatively,  because lead mining was a major industry in southeast Kansas…

Maybe Israel will now get the message that the United States is not its golden goose. We say that with tongue in cheek. Even so, we’re heartened to learn President Joe Biden has stalled delivery…

Joe Simitian long had his eye on a seat in Congress. It would have been a fine way to cap his 40-year political career. “I viewed it as an opportunity to improve the lives of…

President Biden and former president Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but both have pledged not to touch Social Security benefits. This is a reflection of political reality, which is that a lot of seniors,…