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  Remember Simpson-Bowles? That’s the long-forgotten blueprint for reducing the federal debt and balancing the budget. It was crafted by a bipartisan, 18-member commission headed by former Sen. Alan...

Well we’ve made it over the first hump, now we just need to welcome in the New Year!   Then, like the commercials on TV,...

Yippee, the winter solstice has passed, summer and spring are just around the corner and we welcome in 2018. Who knows what the New...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau The holidays are in full swing, winter has somewhat set in, although it’s not very cold and let’s keep...

  It’s always a treat to be lectured by politicians who denounce government aid. From time to time, they will drag out their old harangue about the...

(Best Of) Like the coming of winter he arrives every year about this time. Much the same as the shopping mall Santa, the Donkey Man...

  ...Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I...

We grill the occasional chicken, fish and steak, but most often the meat sizzling on the Gilliland grill is venison, and usually burgers. One...

"I WISH A BRIGHT STAR WOULD APPEAR IN THE EAST OVER WASHINGTON D.C. - WE COULD USE A FEW  WISE MEN UP THERE!" Maxine   As I write this...

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as a dream. The sun begins to lose...