Opinion
Paper election ballots that are counted by hand went out of style in Kansas in the early 1990s and were replaced by vote counting machines.
Now, in different parts of the country, paper election ballots that are counted by hand are starting to make a comeback.
Americans don’t want to wonder whether...
Republican and Democratic members of Congress can work together for the good of the country.
I saw it and heard it on television with my own eyes, but at first I did not believe it. The House of Representatives Oversight Committee was grilling the director of the U.S. Secret Service on Monday.
I...
Former President Donald Trump came within an inch or less of being assassinated as he spoke at an outdoors re-election campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, as a bullet fired from a would-be assassin’s rifle from a rooftop about 130 yards away grazed his right ear.
If Trump had not been...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a president “may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.’’
It’s a good decision on behalf of all presidents, but not for...
Last Thursday evening’s U.S. presidential political debate televised on CNN revealed what we all already knew about President Joe Biden - that’s his cognitive health is failing and that he has no business running for re-election to another four-year term of office.
Biden, a Democrat, is 81 and not...
When they tell you the best time to start preparing for your retirement years was yesterday, it’s the truth.
Social Security’s Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B - health care for retired U.S. citizens turning age 65 - is not what it is cracked up to be.
First of all, it is clear that taking care...
What is Israel, the closest ally that the U.S. has in the Middle East, to do but defend itself?
What would the U.S. do but defend itself under similar circumstances?
U.S. President Joe Biden reportedly is urging Israel not to respond to the drone and missile attacks on April 13 made by Iran.
But to...
In a recent desperate attempt to come up with some ideas on how to clean up Congress and improve on how Congress works these days, it occurred to me that the best course of action may be to prevent our state’s representatives and senators from ever setting foot in Washington, D.C. - ever.
Why send...
What can you say about 2023 - a year in which high inflation caused the average U.S. family’s expenses to increase $8,000 to $10,000 over the previous year?
For that reason alone, 2023 will go down in history as a major not-so-good-economic year for Americans.
Interest rates are up in this country...
Jackson Heights USD 335’s recent announcement that it may not renew its membership with The Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) should be supported.
KASB is a non-profit service organization that has been lobbying the State Legislature on behalf of public school districts across the state...
