Kansas  has been a state about 100 years longer than Libya has been an independent nation. The area it occupies in North Africa is 8.29 times larger in land area than Kansas, but is 92…

Col. Gadhafi appears ready to “slaughter his way back to power,” as the Wall Street Journal warned Monday in an editorial urging the U.S. to act on behalf of the rebels.President Barack Obama continues to…

The Kansas public employee pension system is under-funded by about $7.7 billion. To stop the bleeding, conservatives in the Legislature propose to move away from the current defined benefit system to one patterned after the…

Cracking down on illegal immigrants can get tricky.State Rep. Debbie Riddle, a tea party favorite in Texas, introduced a bill that would make hiring an “unauthorized alien” a crime punishable by up to two years…

Non sequitur is Latin for “it doesn’t follow.” Cutting the IRS budget while claiming to want to reduce the federal deficit is a non sequitur. Or, to put it in the vernacular, “doesn’t make a…

Saturday morning the area lost a warm and loving young mother and wife in a tragic car accident.Pam Hutton lost control of her car on an icy bridge and was hit by an oncoming truck.…

To set the record straight.There is a saying “been there done that.”In a recent editorial in The Iola Register about double dipping, I would like to refer to Kansas and teachers who double dip. Until…

History is often a good teacher and sometimes it is instructive to look back at previous examples of community spirit and generosity as we approach projects like the new Allen County Hospital. Recently the newspaper…

Fred Phelps and his obnoxious kids won another one. Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that they and their phony church had the right to picket military funerals, wave signs saying “Thank God for…

Another effort to silence the thugs of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka is being made.Nine retired U.S. Air Force generals have filed a complaint with Kansas regulators seeking to disbar 10 lawyers — most…