What have we come to as a nation? One day before a 19-year-old former student opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla., killing 17, a Kansas Republican announced on his social media pages...
There is so much going on already this week for which we progressives should be thankful. But if you're able to tear yourself away from Paul Manafort's indictment, here is something else to look forward to. Thanks...
Not long before the Trump administration announced their decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama which protects some 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the United...
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For most of the last few weeks, we were led to believe that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was weeding out alt-right influence on Donald Trump. Steve Bannon, the once and future boss...
Mental Health
Come July, even mentally ill patients confined to institutions in Kansas can carry concealed firearms. In 2013, the state of Kansas enacted a gun-rights law to ensure gun owners the right to carry concealed weapons into...
Representative Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) is obviously way out of touch with his constituents. He talked about the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and he actually said: "Just like Jesus said, 'The poor will always...
First of all, the facts, even though they're sketchy: Conservative columnist and Trump worshiper Ann Coulter was in Kansas on Christmas Day. She stopped at a 7-Eleven. She went into the men's restroom at the...
Well, well. The ammosexuals are losing their minds right about now. They obviously see the election of the NRA's big guy as a license to tote those weapons wherever they'd like to tote them. A story...
After President-elect Donald Trump was announced the winner, many of us who are in minority groups were (and still are) afraid to voice their opinions. Trump wants to take away rights from many groups, so...
President-elect Donald Trump won the state of Kansas by almost 250,000 votes, with incumbent Senate Republican Jerry Moran and incumbent Representative Kevin Yoder also winning big. Kansas is a deep red state, but Lawrence, the...
President-Elect Trump has named who will take over as Central Intelligence Agency Director when his term begins in January. The man chosen to head the CIA is Kansas Republican, Congressman Mike Pompeo. A graduate of both...
equality
Planting Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading peace in the world, purchased the house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church in 2013. The organization soon painted the house the colors of the...
New video from a Cub Scout meeting in Kansas shows Representative Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) pledging to support his party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump – no matter what. “I’m going to be supporting the Republican nominee, no...
Kansas Legislature
Peggy Mast embarrassed herself and the state of Kansas legislature. Big time. Mast (R-Emporia) is Speaker Pro Tem of the Kansas House of Representatives. On October 20, 2016, she posted on Facebook: "Great quote from Hitler in...
Three members of an extremist right-wing militia group were arrested Friday by the FBI for plotting an act of domestic terrorism against an apartment complex and mosque for Somali refugees in Garden City. Patrick Stein, Gavin...
Outer space is now safe space for the LGBTQ community. A Kansas-based organization, Planting Peace, made it so. They did it by launching a rainbow flag into space and declaring space an LGBTQ-friendly zone. Soaring In...
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What would you do with $65,000 in tourism tax money? If you're the government of Kansas City, Mo., $65,000 in tourism taxes is just the right amount to help a ministry prepare for a Baptist...
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Thanks to efforts by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, Kansas is a black hole where dreams go to die. The state is broke. Families are struggling. Schools are failing. With so many people on the verge...
It takes a village to raise a child, but the village better not be filled with Republican lawmakers. The State of Kansas has underfunded its schools for at least six years. There have been efforts to raise the...
How bad has the economic disaster Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has created gotten? Well, thanks to the his and his GOP-controlled legislature's slashing of education funds and changing how money for education would be allocated,...