Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

While some are still trying to elect the president by popular vote, the Constitution provides the process for electing a president, and it runs through the Electoral College.

Each state is given Electoral votes by adding their total number of House and Senate members in Congress.

Kansas has six Electoral Votes while California has 54. While larger populated states have a numerical advantage, smaller populated states have a heavier weight per Electoral vote. In Kansas, we get one Electoral Vote for every 489,950 Kansans while California gets one for every 722,777 Californians.

GUEST COLUMN, Ashley Beying, Kansas Farm Bureau

Sometimes, life is heavy. A couple of months ago, I was in the throes of motherhood, having a newborn baby as well as three other little ones. Trying to balance my career, household duties, being a mother and a wife and helping on the farm after my maternity leave quickly became overwhelming. To put it lightly, I was exhausted.

There were days where it felt easier to just stay in bed and not succumb to the pressures of the outside world. I am fortunate, in that when the stress and all the demands of the world seemed too heavy for me to carry, I had a team of family and friends to pick me up and serve as my anchor. I knew I had to lighten my load of responsibilities I was accountable for and also focus on the things that matter most to me.

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker

President Joe Biden makes no speech without mentioning the importance of democracy in our nation.

We would like to believe this comes from deep ideals about human liberty lodged within our president.

But more accurate is that Biden, a politician all his adult life, is defined by just that — politics. No word, no act emanates from our president that does not emerge from some political calculation.

GUEST COLUMN, Brad Slager, Townhall.com

You have to give the officials inside Denver City Hall a little credit. Unlike much of the waffling and equivocating we normally expect from our civic leaders, at least in the Mile High City they remain committed to their pledge of being a sanctuary city. This is not to say their pledge is in any way pragmatic – or even sane. But they remain committed all the same (while they should be committed, to a mental health facility.)

Denver is considered a sanctuary city for immigrants, and as such the municipality has become a magnet for these new crowds, courtesy mostly from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. These “uninvited repatriated arrivals” (to play the leftist euphemism game) have gathered in Denver to such a degree that for some time now the elected officials have been grappling with the self-created issue of financial hardship. They refuse to learn the lesson of their own failings.