Opinion

GUEST COLUMN, J. Basil Dannebohm

In Aug. 2017, author Michael Wolff was conducting research for his book, “Fire and Fury.” He spoke at considerable length with Jeffrey Epstein. On August 10th, 2019, the notorious sexual predator was found deceased in his prison cell. His death was ruled a suicide. In November 2024, Wolff released the audio files of his interview with Epstein. The deceased pedophile made frequent references to his friendship with Donald Trump and their escapades as they pursued women on the streets of New York and Atlantic City. He accused Trump of being serially unfaithful.

On Feb. 27, 2025, a group of 15 MAGA “influencers” were provided with binders labeled “Epstein Files” and Trump-branded hats during a visit to the White House.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Despite the fact that Kansas is a heavily Republican state, the governor’s office has been split party control for the past 40 years.

Since Mike Hayden was Elected as a Republican in 1986, both parties have enjoyed 20 years of control of the governor’s mansion in Kansas.

After Hayden’s four years, he was denied a second term by Democrat Joan Finney.

But she wore thin on the Kansas voters like Hayden did, and she chose not to run in 1994.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I have never minded getting advice.

My husband, Peter, is good about giving advice, and one of the things I regularly need advice on is food, specifically if I should eat food that I already know I should not.

I hate throwing away food. I was not raised during the Depression, so I have no idea where this aversion comes from, but nothing makes me more sad than seeing food that looks perfectly fine getting tossed out.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

When the founders gathered to create a more perfect union, most were devout Christians. But they didn’t fall into the trap of creating a theocracy or Christian nation, and we are much better for it.

The Church of England was the backdrop of this concept, and the religious persecution that took place was a foundational reason many left England and headed to the New World.

Founders made statements similar to John Adams who said, “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.”