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September 27th, 2023
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GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker     In 2015, as told on the Center for Advancing Opportunity website, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., then-president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, heard libertarian billionaire businessman Charles Koch, in a TV interview, discussing eliminating barriers to...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Ken Hamilton, Liberal     I thought several times about writing something like this over the the past 50 years or so, but then it always went on the back burner for some reason or another.   Maybe because it seemed unimportant at the...

GUEST COLUMN, Will Coggin, Center for Consumer Freedom     When the first stories of rampant sexual harassment leaked out of Hollywood, the allegations were shocking, but perhaps not surprising. After all, Hollywood has always been a world of its own, where sex and...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt     A recent conversation on social media helped me understand the chasm of racial relations that has widened in recent years. My childhood and young adulthood had less racial strife than we have today. But in this conversation, I learned a few ways we...

A SECOND OPINION, The Washington Post     Republican lawmakers released the Nunes memo, an overhyped, thinly evidenced hit on the Justice Department, without simultaneously publishing a Democratic response. Allowing only one side of the story on the record prevented Americans from...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris     Now that the dimensions of the political corruption, bias and injustice that characterized the FBI in recent years is becoming public, it is time to reconsider the legacy of President Barack Obama. And, as the FBI corruption spread to the State...

A SECOND OPINION, The Chicago Tribune     The winter Olympics this year is set against the looming menace posed by one of the world’s most dangerous regimes — North Korea. Whether Pyongyang and the U.S. continue to trade threats of nuclear destruction is a challenge for politicians,...

A SECOND OPINION, The Wichita Eagle     On his way out the door of the governor’s office, Sam Brownback gave us something to remember him by — as if we wouldn’t remember him already.   After a $360 million prison project at Lansing Correctional Facility was approved by the...

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet   The left-leaning newspapers in Kansas have found a new “Big-Government” campaign wagon to jump onto – bigger salaries for 1,600 judicial branch employees.   The lead dog on this drive is the Wichita Eagle. Of course, the Topeka Capital-Journal...

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker   I have long been in favor of reforming Social Security by changing it to a system of personally owned retirement accounts.   Instead of paying a payroll tax, with the U.S. government telling you what you’ll get when you retire, you take ownership of that...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

 

Larry began his career at the paper as a “cub reporter” as he [ ... ]

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GUEST COLUMN, Glen Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau

 

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