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Obama's Touch of Class

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: "The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don't care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I'll fly the plane myself."

Oil spill adds to misery in floodwaters - U.S. Life

It s going to come down the Verdigris until they shut that water supply off, he said. So it s just a matter of time. Is it just me or is Bush's America looking like a third world country?

Human-trafficking investigation leads to 16 Johnson County raids

Fifteen women rescued from human trafficking in Johnson County, Kansas. Illegal immigrants were recruited and employed in these sex-oriented industries, including massage parlors, acupressure, and Asian spas.

Brownback ‘applauds’ Pace’s homophobic comments.

GOP party of hate? Leading candidate Brownback applauds Pace's hateful comments about homosexuals. Don't you love the primary season?

Evolution-centered science OK'd in Kan. - Science

The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of intelligent design, who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.

Moderates in Kansas Decide They're Not in GOP Anymore

There's a tidal change among moderate politicians in Kansas. Fed up with the policies and priorities of the Republican party, nine have switched to running as Democrats in the state, long dominated by the GOP.

Amazing Kansas Editorial Faults Radical Republicans

As we prepare ourselves to make political endorsements in subsequent issues, I can tell you unequivocally that this newspaper has never endorsed so many Democrats. Not even close. In the 56 years we have been publishing in Johnson County, this basically has been a Republican newspaper. In the old days, before the Republican civil war that fractured the party, we were traditional Republicans....

Kansas Republicans evolve -- into Democrats

Popular incumbent Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius persuades social moderates alienated by fights over abortion and Darwin to quit the GOP and run for office as Democrats.

Evolution's foes lose ground in Kansas

American taliban on Kansas school board pushed out in elections. Progress in Kansas?

Evolution Opponents Lose in Kansas Primary

Conservative Republicans who approved new classroom standards that call evolution into question lost control of the State Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election. A victory by pro-evolution Republican candidate Jana Shaver over conservative Republican Brad Patzer, who supported the standards treating evolution as a flawed theory, meant conservatives would at best have five of 10 seats on the board.

Rainbow flag creates controversy

J. R. and Robin Knight own a bed and breakfast in Meade, Kansas. He hung a rainbow flag up outside that his son had given him after a trip to Dorothy's house, a museum about the Wizard of Oz. The locals think, without asking, that it stands for gay pride. The local newspaper is trying to put him out of business and he was frustrated when it ran an article about the flag and did not even bother to contact him regarding why he put it up. A local pastor who stopped by said it was equivalent to hanging women s panties on a flag pole. When Knight jokingly said he might consider that the preacher said he would have him arrested.

Evolution's Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack

Less than a year after a conservative Republican majority on the State Board of Education adopted rules for teaching science containing one of the broadest challenges in the nation to Darwin s theory of evolution, moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack. They want to retake power and switch the standards back to what they call conventional science. Several moderate Republican candidates have vowed, if they lose Tuesday, to support the Democratic primary winners in November.

Candidates in Kansas explain why they switched

Whether the state is seeing the beginning of a trend that features a more robust Democratic Party and a Kansas GOP shorn of its moderate base remains to be seen. In other words, some of the new Democrats have to win in November if the party jumping is to continue.

Trial Opens in Challenge to Law Over Teenage Sex

Kansas is one of 12 states where sex under a certain age 16, 17 or 18 is illegal regardless of the age difference between partners. The Kansas law means health care professionals and educators must report such behavior to state authorities, which some say would stop many teenagers from seeking contraception or treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.