GUEST COLUM, Chuck Voelker, Kansas Farm Bureau

I am a proud member of our local extension district’s governing board. One of our responsibilities is the annual performance evaluations for our 14 extension professionals.  After reviewing their goals, accomplishments and community involvement, I was simply amazed at all of the great works being done. And that got me wondering how many people really understand or recognize the variety and scope of activities agents are responsible for and involved with across the state.

GUEST COLUMN, Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

The sour, bitter face of our enemy is the face of the chubby girl who always tried to get between you and her hot roommate — except instead of a double-bagger trying to block your shot, she’s now a Democrat trying to condemn you to serfdom. It’s the same face you see worn by malignant amphibians like Elissa Slotkin (D-CIA), a particularly loathsome creature who trumpets her time at the Central Intelligence Agency to establish her phony USA! USA! bona fides. This comes at the same time she supports a Jew-hating communist to be her co-senator who is, at minimum, a slobbering affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether her flex is calculated or stupid is a puzzlement; does she think she’s exploiting him instead of being exploited herself? It is useful to remember how the Iranian mullahs took power and then immediately shot all their erstwhile leftist allies. Regardless, they deserve each other; we don’t deserve either.

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

My wife received a birthday card with the words inside, “Asking God to bless you with an incredible year of mountain-moving, sea-parting, wall-falling, chain-breaking, world changing faith.”

What would you consider the greatest miracle of all time? Is it something in your life, or something you've heard about? We often pray for miracles, asking God to intervene in sickness, to open closed doors and move mountains, to bring provision where there's lack, or to change seemingly impossible situations. Yet we may not consider that every true miracle rests on one foundational event: God came to earth as a human being.

The apostle John identified the man Jesus as the Word in John 1:1, and in John 20:31 he declared that his gospel was written so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ [the Messiah], the Son of God. The infinite God entered time and space. The Creator stepped into His creation. The eternal Word took on flesh.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Listening to some of the responses from the recent Seward County Commissioners forum, you would think it impossible to ever have an advisory vote in Kansas. Perhaps the best statement of the night was made by Dist. 2 candidate Kay Burtzloff when she started by saying she was told that such elections were not legal.

And then she said something that must send shivers down the spine of the bureaucracy.

“I’m going to have to check on that,” she said.

Uh-oh.