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Today at 12:36 a.m. Dirty campaigning —Did you know Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, was a communist? No? We weren't aware of it, either, until a release from the Senate campaign of Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, pointed out that Moran has been endorsed by the Communist Party USA. Sort of. The intention of the Tiahrt camp is clear: Paint Moran as "not conservative enough," feeding on the socialism/communism paranoia that's running rampant since Barack Obama took the reins. We would like to remind those running Tiahrt's campaign that voters in northwest Kansas are not amused by the McCarthy-esque red-baiting. By the way, in case facts matter, the Communist Party USA has not endorsed Moran. It simply offered thanks to a handful of Republican members of Congress who co-sponsored a bill lifting the travel ban to Cuba. How are we ever to expect bipartisan — or, gasp, nonpartisan — politics to rule the day in this nation if candidates in the same party play so dirty?— Hays Daily News
Today at 12:36 a.m. We (should) wrap him in bacon and deep-fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face.
Nov. 22 at 3:14 a.m. A jobless recovery is no recovery for the jobless, which is why President Obama, members of Congress and other leaders at all levels still need to focus on getting Americans working again. Like the layoffs, the problem solving should cut across party lines.
Nov. 22 at 2:20 a.m. The Sarah Palin phenomenon — for that is what it is, because her celebrity flows singularly from John McCain's choice of her as a running mate — offers an opportunity for conservatives to choose their path to the future. Will it be a path of the angry and disenfranchised outsider? Or will it be something of substance that produces triumphs in both politics and policy?
Nov. 22 at 2:20 a.m. Calm. That's not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a federal report on breast cancer screening.
By Joel Brinkley, McClatchy-Tribune News Service | Nov. 21 at 12:03 a.m. Now we can say, with no real doubt, that the Obama administration has suffered its first major foreign policy failure, and it's hard to see a way to recover.
By Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m. Perhaps you've long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America. Well, the Republicans wish to disabuse you of that notion.
Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m. The Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition commissioned a study five years ago that identified industries to target for growth and to help diversify the local economy. Given new economic and market conditions (including the emergence of the green-energy sector), GWEDC is wise to update that study and re-examine the region's competitiveness.
By Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Media Services | Nov. 19 at 12:06 a.m. I get where President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the terrorists will have won.
Nov. 19 at 1:27 a.m. See Jerry Moran run. See Jerry Moran run fast. See Jerry Moran build a big lead in the polls and a big, big lead in fundraising.
Nov. 19 at 12:06 a.m. The Sedgwick County Commission was right last summer to want to chart a productive future for the Kansas Coliseum complex. But especially with county staff warning that even the better of two proposals would put taxpayers at significant financial risk, the commission also was right Wednesday in declining to pick a developer and start contract negotiations.
By Maggie Mahar, Washington Post | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m. If you're a progressive like me, and you're upset by the Stupak amendment, which bars federally subsidized insurance from covering abortions, consider this: What if we had a single-payer health care system and someone like Jeb Bush or Sarah Palin were running the country?
Nov. 18 at 6:32 a.m. The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen the Bronx Zoo, because a zoo is what will be created when this terrorist trial is held.
Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m. Columnist Rod Dreher was correct in stating that "gay marriage represents a cultural revolution, a fundamental redefinition of what marriage means" ("Empathy a two-way street on gay marriage," Nov. 12 Opinion). Indeed, it represents yet another sign that our society is finally coming to realize that freedoms and the right to live in liberty in our nation should not be restricted to only one group.
Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m. In the absence of formal legislation on health care for much of the year, members of Congress and others could itemize grievances about the reform effort freely, without regard to any facts.
By Barbara Shelly, Kansas City Star | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m. Something as sweeping as health care reform, we're being told, should have bipartisan support. The creation of the interstate highway system did. And the Civil Rights Act. Ditto the Social Security Act of 1935.
Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m. A panel of research experts commissioned by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently examined 83 studies of sex education. The data the experts reviewed and the recommendations they released seem to fly in more directions than yesterday's newspaper caught up in a Kansas wind.
Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m. School districts certainly have grounds for suing the state again. After all, they won an earlier lawsuit over inadequate school funding, yet the state is reneging on that funding obligation.
Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m. Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions are seeking ways to burnish the Golden Rule.
By Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Media Services | Nov. 16 at 12:06 a.m. Let me say up front, I don't think President Obama is to blame for the Fort Hood shootings, and I don't think it's fair to say otherwise.
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