Columns

China borrowing U.S. recipe for success
November 22, 2009
Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese.
Financial claims on health bill not credible
November 22, 2009
It’s simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.
Strong message needed on Afghanistan
November 22, 2009
The residents of the Afghan capital, both native and foreign, are waiting for President Obama — to make up his mind.
Trial could help restore American pride, honor
November 22, 2009
“We (should) wrap him in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face.” — Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” on confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Palin stirs feminist ambivalence
November 21, 2009
You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don’t mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for “Going Rogue.”
GOP should give Palin some competition
November 21, 2009
For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising.
Nation has right to ask ‘why?’
November 21, 2009
It was a cold, cloudy day at the Dole Institute on Nov. 10, the time when Marines from the Lawrence area came together to celebrate the 234th birthday of the Corps.
Leaders offer tips for chancellor’s successful tenure
November 21, 2009
Last week, this column focused on the challenges facing Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little as she nears her 100th day as KU’s 17th chancellor.
Setting 9/11 trial in New York is absurd
November 20, 2009
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
Forced insurance raises constitutional issue
November 19, 2009
In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.
Whiter Sosa is an embarrassment
November 19, 2009
Dear Sammy Sosa: Are you happy with yourself now? Are you more confident and self-assured? When you look in the mirror, do you like yourself better, now that you are white?
Bottom-up strategy could bypass Karzai
November 18, 2009
Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai?
KU pain must be shared
November 18, 2009
Over recent weeks there has been a growing “buzz” on campus that a committee of high-level administrators has been meeting with the purpose of formulating a plan to deal with the next round of budget cuts, if they come.
Fear of offense is dangerous
November 18, 2009
That the Fort Hood gunman had plenty of enablers is unmistakable.
Trying terrorists in the U.S. is dangerous
November 17, 2009
The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

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