TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state’s courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group’s spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely. (more)
Faced with a shortage of hired hands, Kansas ranchers and farmers are appealing to their state’s secretary of agriculture for a solution. And he says he has one: hiring illegal immigrants. (more)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — As the nation’s oldest sitting federal judge in history, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown allowed himself few concessions to his advancing age as he insisted on presiding over significant and often complex cases right up until his death at 104. (more)
Boeing Co. (BA) plans to shutter defense operations in Wichita, Kansas, where it has built airplanes since 1929, as military projects dry up amid U.S. spending constraints, said a person familiar with the plan. (more)
President Barack Obama made a full-throated call on Tuesday for voters to give progressives more control over the economy, wrapping himself in the image of former President Teddy Roosevelt. (more)
Several of the 43 members of Congress demanding Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation because of Operation Fast and Furious believe it is President Barack Obama’s responsibility to dismiss him if Holder won’t step down on his own. If Obama fails to replace his attorney general, they said, he may share in the guilt for the program’s failure and the resulting scandal. (more)
Privacy by convenience? Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp pointed out what he says is Kathleen Sebelius’s double standard on patient privacy: one standard for abortion records while she was governor of Kansas, and another for Obamacare as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (more)
In 1993, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge halted the enforcement of annual health inspections of his state’s abortion clinics. In 2010, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Pennsylvania abortion provider, was charged with murder and infanticide. Gosnell is accused of breaking state laws by performing late-term abortions, killing children born alive as the result of botched abortions and using unsterilized medical instruments. At least one patient died while under Dr. Gosnell’s care and many others have been infected with venereal diseases. (more)
A May 22 story in the Wichita Eagle about the Kansas Legislature’s lack of focus on job creation in the just-concluded legislative session provides great insight into the economic stagnation the Sunflower State has suffered over the last decade. (more)
Even in the unpredictable, anything-goes world of March Madness, this is a Final Four nobody saw coming. (more)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police arrested a man in connection with a carjacking near 33rd Street and Jackson Avenue on Monday morning, where the owner was chained to his front porch. (more)
Recently, it was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the Food and Drug Administration, which now regulates tobacco, will require all cigarette packages to carry scary warning labels depicting the evils of tobacco use, complete with gruesome photos of a cancerous lung, a man smoking a cigarette through a tracheotomy tube, and a corpse. (more)
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to bring the immigration-related “DREAM Act” to the Senate floor and some Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm bells, highlighting that it would offer amnesty to an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens. (more)
California Congressman Brad Sherman (D) has introduced legislation to repeal right-to-work laws in the twenty-two states that have them, including Kansas. Right-to-work laws were created in 1947 as part of the Taft-Hartley Act, which amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. “Right-to-work” refers to the right of states to prohibit closed shops, a workplace that requires a worker to be a member of a labor union and to pay dues to that union. (more)
Replacing the aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers has been an Air Force priority since 2002. That year, Congress approved funding for Boeing to lease up to one-hundred 767s to replace the 50-year-old KC-135 tankers. However, the deal fell apart in the wake of a 2004 bribery scandal that resulted in the convictions of a top Pentagon procurement officer and a senior Boeing official. (more)
Last week, libertarian think tank the Cato Institute released its Fiscal Policy Report Card for governors. In the study, “governors are graded on their fiscal performance from a limited-government perspective,” earning points for tax cuts and spending cuts, and losing points for tax hikes and increased spending. (more)
TOPEKA, KAN. – A filmmaker several years ago tracked Shirley Phelps-Roper and her family members as they went about praising God for killing U.S. soldiers and picketing their funerals – their way of putting the nation on notice about the Almighty’s wrath. (more)
Nancy Pelosi’s Republican challenger in the People’s Republic of San Francisco is John Dennis, a “pro-liberty, accomplished businessman and entrepreneur.” While Dennis has an uphill climb against Pelosi in liberal San Francisco, he is garnering attention with this ad depicting the Speaker as the Wicked Witch of the West. Complete with Dorothy, Toto and even flying IRS monkeys, Dennis reminds voters that we’re not in Kansas anymore. (more)
By next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, there could be a new Republican candidate for governor to replace current nominee Dan Maes. Names again are circulating as possible replacements, including the 2006 Republican candidate for governor, Bob Beauprez, and Jane Norton, the former lieutenant governor who recently lost the GOP Senate primary to Ken Buck. (more)
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