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What would Andrew Jackson have done?
What the financial institutions did was frightening. What the Congress and the President have done may be even worse. But now that the monster's loose, Maria Holiday argues, we'd better take a moment to try to understand just how bad this all is.
The umpires strike out
What kind of a contest puts the opposing teams in the bleachers and asks the refs to duke it out on the field? It's the game being played over climate change and the environment. Forrest Knox calls the play-by-play.
A warning about preschool—from one of its advocates
Comment: Call it 'early childhood education' and it sounds wonderful. But if you call it what it really is - the state doing the job of a parent - you get a little closer to the truth, says John R. LaPlante
How far will Kansans go to save a dollar a pack?
Try Missouri. Smokers may not be smart enough to quit, but they're smart enough to drive. Jonathan Williams explains.
Dear Bob: Thanks for writing, but...
Last week, movie star Robert Redford sent letters to political candidates all over Kansas to tell them to take a stand alongside Kathleen Sebelius and against coal-fired power plants. The problem, says T.J. Johnson, is the celeb didn't go far enough.
