A Lawrence woman complained to police there that she has been approached by other women on the streets asking for money because they were the victims of domestic violence and needed money to leave town.Other…

Without asking a soul, Gov. Sam Brownback made a deal with some wind energy companies to put 11,000 square miles of central Kansas off-limits to wind farms.Now it seems that Cowley County Commissioners had been…

The bad news is that America will exceed its debt limit of $14.3 trillion sometime next week. Still worse news is that Sec. of the Treasury Timothy Geithner says he can play games with the…

When the bare-bones budget state lawmakers put together this week reaches Gov. Sam Brownback he is expected to kill the Kansas Arts Commission and do his best to kill public radio in Kansas.These will not…

President Barack Obama went fishing for Latino votes Tuesday at the Texas border with Mexico. He won’t get the immigration reform act he wants. He won’t know about the votes until fall 2012.Obama correctly blamed…

America’s response to $4 gas has been to demand that government do something to bring the price down. Instead, we should demand that government do much more to end our dependence on imported oil. President…

It was bound to happen. A super-secret band of Navy SEALs stormed into Osama bin Laden’s hideout last week and killed him. No sooner than the dust had settled from their helicopters but phony SEALs…

Looking back over the 1950s, an American today might be surprised at the number of strikes that disrupted the nation’s economy and changed the American economic, political and social scene. Headline after headline announced that…

There were two good news stories on America’s economic scene last week: the nation’s employers put an additional 268,000 people on the payroll in April. It was the third straight month that substantial job growth…

Tom Friedman, who introduced globalism to the popular mind with his book, “The World is Flat,” first came on the intellectual scene with penetrating analysis of the struggle between Israel and the Arab nations. He…