Gov. Sam Brownback grew cautious as legislators began debating tax cuts and putting together a state budget last week. “Tax cuts,” he said, “must be balanced with pay-fors to keep the budget responsible. That’s where…

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is going to Washington to sit in on the arguments being made in the Supreme Court for and against the Affordable Health Care Act. Schmidt is one of 26 Republican…

The Etch-a-Sketch brouhaha is a crock. When a high-level aide of Mitt Romney said the candidate would start his campaign over after being nominated and compared the change to shaking up an Etch-a-Sketch toy to…

I scored 36. Solidly middle class, with enough education and comforts to be accused of bordering elite. Depends on who’s pinning on the labels. The test is called “How Thick is Your Bubble?” alluding to…

America’s farmers have an enormous opportunity ahead of them, Dale Rodman told a group of Kansans Wednesday.  “Over the next 20 to 30 years the world is going to have to produce as much food…

Regulations being considered by the U.S. Department of Labor to restrict what youths may do on farms would have affected the meager finances my buddies and I had in the 1950s. The unfolding regulations, a…

When our national security is at risk because not enough young men and women can qualify to serve in its defense, it sounds an alarm. Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, is calling the…

House Republicans wrote the Democrats’ fall campaign script Tuesday when House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan presented a dramatic overhaul of federal taxing and spending that would slash Medicare, food stamps, Pell grants for poor…

A quartet of Republican senators propose doing away with Medicare and enrolling the nation’s elderly in the for-profit insurance that covers federal employees and members of Congress. As imagined, the change would save trillions.  Money…

Weary of the flood of birth control laws pouring out of state legislatures — almost all authored by men — women lawmakers are striking back. Sen. Nina Turner of Ohio has introduced a bill that…