Kansas Liberty Week in Review
Up one levelA review of each week's top stories
Psst. Education's a government program.
EDUCATION: With schools, bigger ain't better | LEGISLATURE: Bills are alive with the sound of nonsense | More seat belt laws | Concealed carry law sputters | Smoking's illegal, but state sovereignty's stalled | In-vitro practices monitored under proposed law | DRUGS: Kansas bans K2 | HEALTH-CARE: Is it even legal? | POLITICS: Dems try slamming O'Neal with ethics charge | COMMENT: Bill Wyckoff looks for a shaker full of common sense.
The legacy of overfunded schools
TAXES: Liberals over-spend on schools – but can't stop | Cig tax costs more than it brings in | NANNYISM: Good cause, bad effect in day-care law | Day-care measure patched with amendments | POLITICS: Moran stands by 'attack' on Tiahrt | TENTH AMENDMENT: Goyle's moves table popular sovereignty resolution | BUSINESS: Parkinson interferes in business relief measure
Smoke and mirrors
BUTT TAX: Dems try to raise taxes on tobacco... | ...while voting to ban smoking | OBAMA AND KANSAS: State GOP delegation blasts latest ObamaCare plan | Dem health plan would make abortionists rich on taxpayers' dollars | Obama's approval sinks lower in Kansas | POLITICS: Kansas Republicans jeer at Holland's 'moderate' claim | CONCEALED CARRY: Knox pushes for increased security | ECSR: NIH loosens restrictions on research | BUSINESS: Increasing benefits adds to businesses' burdens | COMMENT: Jene Vickery on the persistence of the left | COMMENT: Bill Wyckoff asks, 'Will you still feed me' when he's 64?
Coughing up for health care?
HEALTH CARE: Left-wing groups try to force 'giving' | LIFE AND DEATH: Senate ducks protection for unborn children | ...but okays killing criminals | NANNYISM: Seat belts are just the start | POLITICS: SOS resignation means more Dem appointments | State officials take pay hit | Bills jam legislative turnaround week | COMMENT: Bill Wyckoff asks: how do the elites survive without common sense?
A decision that leaves attorneys laughing?
ED FUNDING: Kansas Supreme Court says school districts can't reopen Montoy | Committee considers bigger schools | POLITICS: Senate passes state sovreignty resolution | Thornburgh quits, opens another door for Dems | Top state jobs filled Dem by appointees | AFP opens transparency site | HEALTH CARE: Study shows abstinence-only sex-ed works, but Obama cuts funding | Health care freedom amendment gets a hearing | COMMENT: How about stimulating some simple math? asks Bill Wyckoff

