An article in a magazine called “The Journal of Consumer Affairs” reports that buying groceries with cash rather than a credit card fills the shopping cart with healthier food.Researchers from Cornell University created an experiment…

President Obama’s  budget would make a start at reducing federal deficits over the next decade — but only a start.He proposes cuts in the Pell Grant program, reductions in Pentagon spending made possible by the…

Egypt’s people had at least two reasons to drive Hosni Mubarak out of power: (1) He was a dictator who denied Egyptians basic human and political rights; (2) Egypt was a failed state that kept…

It’s Good News Friday. To heck with Egypt, the national debt, congressional Republicans and streets full of snow. Think positive. Celebrate innovation. To be specific, be amazed that science has discovered a way to turn…

Without the messy nuisance of public debate, Gov. Sam Brownback issued an executive order abolishing the Kansas Arts Commission and transferring its duties to the Kansas Historical Society. Gov. Brownback also proposed creation of a…

As Egypt’s world falls apart, is the ground under the feet of the Saudis beginning to shake?A very small protest group assembled in Dubai, capital of the United Arab Emirates, this week to demand the…

Chipotle, the nationwide Mexican food chain with more than 1,000 restaurants, found itself the target of an immigration crackdown in Minnesota this month that has forced the company to fire about half of its workforce…

Wow! Newt Gingrich and Bill Bradley will be the speakers Friday night at Salina’s Chamber of Commerce banquet. What a political feast that will be!Both men will speak and then invite questions. Pity the master…

Kansas Speaker Mike O’Neal wants a lot more power over budget bills. And if he can manage it, he’d like to exercise it in secret.O’Neal and his conservative cohorts are moving to adopt a rule…

Here is a handful of statistics describing the success that Asian-Americans — many of whom are the children of immigrants who arrived in this country poor as church mice a generation ago — have in…