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Cyberbullying? Or is it only another cyberbelch?

Why all the fuss and feathers over Trump the Tweeterin-Chief? Roughly a week ago, Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999 challenged...

A government set-up for private profiteers

The state’s mental hospitals at Osawatomie and Larned are among the more battered victims of Gov. Sam Brownback’s calculated abuse of state agencies. His...

The hidden cost in what is ‘free’

The Koch brother billionaires, David and Charles, are big on what they call the “free market,” a term that has great appeal in Kansas....

On giving thanks

  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.” – Luke 18:11 Without speaking...

Dusk seems such a comfort

It is an American custom that as the year winds out, we pause to be grateful – for what we have, for what we...

Values and honesty

In an election year we have heard a lot from candidates about their belief in values. The implication, mostly, is that one candidate has...

Broadcasters love speed; do viewers understand?

As the baseball season ends with the Cubs’ astonishing World Series victory, so ends the broadcasters’ obsession with the radar gun and the speed...

Kassebaum and Dole: From another, better time

It won’t be long now. We fold the bunting on America’s poisonous presidential campaign with notes of a gathering six weeks ago that told of...

DEPARTMENT OF COMPLEXITY: Middle East geography

A couple of months ago the press tsk-tsked Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, after he blew an MSNBC interview: How, he was...

We have mislaid our capacity for trust

David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, said recently that America is buried in an “avalanche of distrust,” the failing of a society that...
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