Opinion
Disagreements in this country about the direction of the complex and controversial critical race theory (CRT) topic, along with additional parental concerns arising during the COVID-19 learning-at-home time period for kids over the past two years, have resulted in more parents wanting to get...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who hopes to be the Republican Party’s next nominee for governor, says he would like state lawmakers to use much of a projected $2.9 billion state surplus to pay down public debt.
Schmidt has the right idea. Paying off public debt is what Kansans should expect...
It looks like a plan to eliminate or reduce the sales tax on groceries purchased in Kansas may have a good shot at getting approved by the Kansas State Legislature during the 2022 Session.
Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, announced Monday, Nov. 8, that she favored the idea.
And Derek Schmidt, a...
President Joe Biden on Oct. 8 issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The day was observed Oct. 11, along with Columbus Day, which is a national holiday. Native Americans reportedly have campaigned for years for local and national days in recognition of the...
Directing Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents across the country to monitor local school board meetings sends a threatening message from the federal government and has a chilling effect on free speech rights that must not be continued, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said recently....
Americans have read numerous news stories over the past 60 years about the need for the U.S. Congress to raise the nation’s maximum debt limit.
In fact, since 1960, Congress has raised the nation’s maximum debt limit a whopping 80 times.
Our nation’s debt is currently estimated at $28.4 trillion...
Three Kansas senators and two congressmen spoke to more than 100 Kansas agricultural leaders from all corners of the state recently at the state fair in Hutchinson.
The message was the same from all of them - the ruling Democrat party and all of the radical environmentalists are coming after the...
It should not take a national tragedy like 9/11 to pull all American citizens back together for a common purpose.
Yet, most of the time, these days, we allow national TV pundits - who clearly have their own agendas - to divide us.
It is not good for our society, nor is it good for our country’s...
The world is watching and listening day after day now as the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is being ended, after more than 20 years there.
After the U.S. military’s imminent withdrawal was announced less than a week ago, the opposing Taliban terrorist forces in the country have been rapidly...
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