More than two years have passed since former U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue departed, but the brouhaha he created with one callous comment in the middle of his tenure remains memorable. Perdue, a…

To mixed reviews, Apple released the iPhone 15 last Tuesday. Sure it’s better, tech analysts seem to concur, just not enough to rationalize the $1,599 price tag, which is what the souped-up version with 1TB…

Last month a state district court judge in Montana ruled in favor of young environmental activists — ranging in age from 5 to 22 — and their claim that the state of Montana was violating…

There’s an old cliche that says no one’s liberty is safe when the Legislature is in session.  Well, here in Kansas, we can go that one better.  Our state Legislature’s a threat to liberty, even…

Unable to attend the BRICS summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in Johannesburg at the end of August, or at the G20 summit in New Delhi on Sept. 9-10, due to an arrest warrant…

It was like a scene from the cold war. Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, stepped off his luxurious bulletproof train this week having crossed into Russia’s Far East, to be greeted by a military…

Recently, we’ve received a couple of messages from readers extolling the promise of the supposedly centrist group No Labels. In theory, this is a group looking for solutions in the neglected middle of the ideological…

Maybe the beginning of a new football season isn’t the best time to consider the damage that football does to players’ bodies. In fact, if you’d rather not think about it, turn the page. Otherwise,…

At the end of this month, states are expected to run through the last of $24 billion in additional federal funding for child care, implemented as part of the overall pandemic relief efforts. We’ll all…

My good friends know that my end is near. Several of them have flown from far away to see me in Texas. They come for an hour or two of conversation, and then they fly…