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With Kansas election season winding down, consider the benefits of being a mugwump
It is hard to become, and then remain, a bona fide political mugwump. A mugwump is someone who wants to remain aloof from party politics.

Frontier Kansas lawyers plied their trade ‘on grounds of general intelligence’
I am an aficionado of Western novels. I like the work of Elmer Kelton, Zane Grey, C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, that sort. Most Westerns

An absence of malice: Free speech precedent could be up for grabs in shifting media landscape
American watchers of the U.S. Supreme Court keep looking for the one phrase that strikes terror into the hearts of those who want courts to

In electing lawmakers, Kansans might want to look past active-verb artists
True Story: The 2022 Kansas Legislature recessed in early April before coming back to a veto session. During the break, several legislators, the attorney general,

Want to find real election fraud? Look at the history of Kansas, United States in 1800s
The late Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights warrior in the Martin Luther King Jr. mold, chucked a rock at Kansas during his last year

In supporting Ukrainians’ struggle, let’s not go crazy by canceling Russia’s rich culture
If we want to root for Ukraine and back their efforts against Russia, that’s OK. But we don’t have to get crazy in the process.