Now Afghans can change the subject from war to building an economy without poppies.Monday’s front page news was that U.S. geologists have confirmed that Afghanistan has enormous untapped mineral wealth. It can be a major…

I live in Moran and I am in favor of the extension of the rail trail. One might ask who cares about an “out-of-towner’s” opinion? We do care because we (my husband and I) buy…

Sam Brownback has nailed down one plank in his campaign to be governor of Kansas. What the state needs, he says, is a State Office of the Repealer. The Repealer — not exactly the same…

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona’s campaign finance law was unconstitutional. The vote and the arguments won’t be made public until the court’s next term, but the impact is immediate. Arizona candidates…

Tuesday’s primary elections served up food for political rumination:How will extremists fare in November? Watch Nevada’s senate campaign. Sen. Harry Reid, majority leader of the Senate, will face Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who won…

Former governor John Carlin urged young people to get deeply involved in politics in a speech he made in Iola Tuesday night, which is reported at greater length starting on page one. “They need to…

Prime Minister David Cameron wears a stern face and begins his term as Great Britain’s chief executive with solemn — maybe scary is a better adjective — words.The financial situation “is even worse than we…

People get happier as they get older, a massive study involving 340,000 people seems to show.Maybe because they forget what makes them unhappy?Well, the study did conclude that the happiest folks that the Gallup people…

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York made a bold, but very sensible budget decision Wednesday. He told the city’s teachers their salaries would be frozen for the next two years so that it would not…

Odds are 100 to one that you, and all of the other treasured readers of The Register wherever you may be, know that Al and Tipper Gore have separated and may divorce after 40 years…