GUEST COLUMN, Dr. Rick Holm, Prairie Doc My patient was in severe pain, suffering from an obstruction in his gastrointestinal tract as a result of spreading cancer. I knew that morphine, one of the opioids, would provide immediate and merciful relief, and it did. We are thankful that we...
GUEST COLUMN, Glenn Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau Kansas Farm Bureau members just finished celebrating our first 100 years. I say the first 100 years because one thing that became very clear to me this year was KFB is very much a healthy and vibrant organization. We have weathered tough...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron There’s a Newsboys song that begins, “In this time of desperation, when all we know is doubt and fear – there is only one foundation: we believe, we believe!” Think of Joseph and Mary on their way to Bethlehem, a journey of more than 90 miles. She was great...
GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris Boris Johnson’s historic landslide victory may have significant implications for our own election in 2020. The forces that impelled Donald Trump’s improbable election and those behind Boris Johnson’s Tories in general and Brexit in particular have much in...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt So far, the House Democrats created their own set of rules for the impeachment process, they refused to call witnesses requested by the Republicans, they denied due process, they refused to ask the courts to rule on documents they requested for the impeachment...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon It is the tender cusp of Christmas. It is that time when emotions run close to the overfill point, when sentimentality and anger and depression and euphoria mix freely together, with not enough space between them to tell the difference from one moment to...
GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris As Jerry Nadler drafted articles of impeachment on Wednesday, President Donald Trump held firm at a 46 percent job approval rating, according to a Hill/Harris X poll. It is not just that Americans are rallying around their president as they watch the Democrats...
GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, Kansas Farm Bureau The countdown for Christmas officially has begun in our house. This year, aside from a little felt Advent calendar we hang on a door to help the kids understand how many days are left until Christmas, we also added two chocolate Advent...
GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet I was opening mail the other day with a pocket knife of mine I use as a letter opener. It was one of my NRA knives I keep on the side table of my La-Z-Boy. I was suddenly struck by the fact it was “Made in China.” There it was on the opposite side of...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt I enjoy visiting with Merle Roberts about politics. We tend to arrive at the same location even if we take different roads. But Mr. Roberts shares a scenario which concerns me about why the partisanship is so high in this country, and he nailed it when...