Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is being criticized by some of his fellow GOP presidential hopefuls for his decision nine years ago to reduce the jail sentence of Maurice Clemmons, who recently murdered four police officers in Washington state. But columnist Michael Gerson defended Huckabee’s decision, [...]
U.S. firms that compete globally are barred by federal anti-corruption law from extending certain favors toward would-be foreign buyers. Yet the Pentagon, for example, waives such limits for foreign bidders including the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co, complains Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard. “If you [...]
Sedgwick County’s jail consultants were wise to withdraw a proposal for a contract extension. After all, Justice Concepts Inc. failed to reduce the county’s jailed population by 25 percent, as its original 10-month contract promised. The Kansas City, Mo., firm also has yet to produce a [...]
It’s not surprising that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is critical of the climate talks in Copenhagen, though her rhetoric is particularly strident. In a Washington Post commentary this week, Palin dismissed “so-called climate change experts” and “the agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen.” [...]
In endorsing President Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry (in photo) raised a key concern: Success depends on the Afghan and Pakistani governments. “In spite of everything we do,” Eikenberry told the House [...]
Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone sees the retirement of Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, as “an ominous sign for congressional Democrats.” He suggests that Moore might have had trouble winning re-election in 2010 with Barack Obama off the ballot and Moore’s votes for health reform and cap-and-trade [...]
As the health reform debate heats up in the Senate, so does the rhetoric about Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, with special attention to the new powers that reform would invest in her agency. In a Townhall.com commentary headlined “She Who Must Be Obeyed,” Ken [...]
The following satirical headlines come from borowitzreport.com and theonion.com:
MISTRESSES OF TIGER WOODS MARCH ON WASHINGTON; Crowd Estimated at Over One Million
TIGER QUITS GOLF; WILL BECOME POLITICIAN
PALIN LOOKING FORWARD TO READING HER BOOK; ‘Looks Like A Page-turner,’ Says Former Guv
BIDEN PARDONS SINGLE [...]
President Obama’s speech about the Afghanistan troop surge, “for all its thoughtfulness and sporadic eloquence, was a failure at its central mission,” columnist Frank Rich wrote. “On its own terms, as both policy and rhetoric, it didn’t make the case for escalating our involvement in Afghanistan. [...]
“The truth is that if Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people at Fort Hood, had entered the officers club there with a nice handbag on his arm, perhaps a Gucci tote, he would have been out of the Army by the end of the week,” columnist Richard [...]
The 2010 legislative session may see another debate over how Kansas puts judges on its appellate courts, fueled by University of Kansas law professor Stephen Ware’s contention that the current nominating process is too dominated by lawyers. State Rep. Lance Kinzer, R-Olathe, plans to push [...]
Good for Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for questioning why the Obama administration is newly negotiating with and offering incentives to Sudan, a government accused of genocide by the International Criminal Court and whose president is the target of an ICC arrest warrant. Invited to participate Thursday [...]
News of the involvement of former pharmaceutical company executive and 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wiggans in a federal securities fraud lawsuit in California, and especially of its recent settlement for $12.75 million, only compounds the skepticism about Wiggans’ electability. Republicans already were making much [...]
Everybody now knows who wasn’t invited to the recent White House state dinner but went anyway, Tareq and Michaele Salahi. But those invited included state Rep. Raj Goyle, D-Wichita. Asked by The Eagle editorial board about the now-infamous state dinner, Goyle gave a stately response: [...]
The site near Murdock and Hydraulic being considered by Sedgwick County for a work-release center hardly sounds perfect, especially because of the elementary school at the inmates’ nearest bus stop. But there is no perfect site for such a facility, which nevertheless is needed to counter [...]
“One of the examples I use: Part of our stimulus money went to spaying and neutering pets in Wichita, Kan. The stimulus bag was in fact a grab bag of big spending programs.” — Carly Fiorina (in photo), GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in California and [...]
Climategate is almost entirely a tempest in a teacup. One bunch of e-mails stolen from a British university’s climate center shows that when scientists are communicating privately they can be as catty and nasty as anyone else. It’s good gossip fodder, but nothing more. Another [...]
The right-wing nuts think they've discovered a vast conspiracy, but here's a video that puts things in perspective.
