“Doc” Holliday, so the story goes, went to Dodge City to have clean air to breathe in the hope that his TB could go away.That might have been a mistake. Then, as now, the air…

Kathleen Sebelius used her authority as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to overrule a Food and Drug Administration decision to make emergency contraceptives available over the counter to all women and…

They just can’t win. Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is too unconventional to win in the National Football League. GOP Presidential Candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s unconventional stances on foreign policy, the war on…

Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Linda Darling-Hammond is a professor of education at Stanford. They got together to consider what the federal role in public education…

The yawning chasm between the wealthy and the rest of America is the defining issue of our time, President Barack Obama told an applauding crowd at the Osawatomie high school yesterday.Calling it a “make or…

A practiced mob broke into the British embassy in Tehran Tuesday, broke windows, smashed furniture, emptied file cabinets into the streets, and terrorized the staff. The consequences were swift. As soon as its people were…

This week belongs to Newt Gingrich. He drew tremendous crowds campaigning in Florida last week and a new poll showed him at the top of the Republican heap there, with 41 percent of the registered…

Bob Dole of Kansas was Mr. Conservative in national politics in the early 1980s when the nation struggled through one of the periodic recessions which have tormented the rich and tortured the poor over all…

Farmland values jumped 25 percent in the third quarter of this year, a survey made by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City showed. The survey gathered data from 243 banks in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma,…

Sense prevailed Monday when Gov. Sam Brownback said no apology was required from a Kansas City teen who — get this — did not say the Governor “sucked” on a message sent out from her…