S/Sgt. Robert Bales had been deployed four times to combat areas in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 10 years when he went berserk last week and murdered 16 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children,…

An interesting initiative to strengthen Kansas manufacturing is being taken in the state Senate. One of the bills in the “Kansas Works” package would only tax an industry on profits made on the sale of…

Rick Santorum’s victories in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday came close to making the contest a two-man race.  Newt Gingrich was counting on those Deep South states to revive his near-dead campaign. Instead, they deflated Mitt…

Kansas lawmakers are debating whether cutting state income in order to do a better job of maintaining highways, educating children, assuring our youth of high quality universities and caring for the needs of the poor,…

Rich Santorum swept like a prairie fire through Kansas on Saturday, a poet wrote for the Kansas City Star Sunday. Deeper into the story, the writer settled down and reported the unpoetic fact that only…

U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February, which made it three months in a row of healthy hikes. The jobless rate stayed way too high at 8.3 percent because streams of people headed back into…

Another effort to push approval for the XL crude oil pipeline was squashed in the Senate by Democrats last Thursday, despite support from 11 Democrats. The amendment to the Senate transportation bill won a solid…

As the campaign moves into Alabama and Mississippi, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, faces ranks of evangelical Christians who have not been friendly thus far. How should he deal with that? Chances are he’ll try to…

Oklahoma Republicans voted for Rick Santorum. Tennessee, the home of moderate Republican Howard Baker and his even-more-moderate wife, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, also put itself solidly in the Santorum camp. More significantly, the former senator who…

Ross and Christine Hartley of Jackson Hole, Wyo., just gave $1.8 million to Baker University to help with its $10.5 million campaign to renovate and expand a campus building. The Hartleys know how to use…