- Opinion: Immigration bill has too many holes
- May 6, 2013
- There’s the story of a woman with five kids who was asked if she had to do it all over again would she have five children? “Yes,” she said, “just not these five.” That’s the way I feel about the immigration “reform” bill introduced by the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of 8.” I’m all for an immigration bill, just not this immigration bill — at least in its present form.
- U.S. justice still far from color blind
- May 5, 2013
- If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner’s Houston home, and also wounded his own stepsister, Phyllis Taylor. But it will also be because he’s black.
- Opinion: Obama initiatives are dead in the water
- May 4, 2013
- Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs. And where the victor is hailed as the new Caesar, facing an open road to domination.
- Opinion: Syrian rebels critical of U.S. delays
- May 3, 2013
- Gen. Salim Idriss, the commander of rebel forces in Syria, complained late Tuesday that President Obama’s desire “to wait and wait for more evidence” that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons is encouraging their continued use — and that these attacks will only stop if the U.S. and its allies impose a no-fly zone.
- Opinion: Obama sensibly cautious on Syria
- May 2, 2013
- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for his rhetorical carelessness, but the nation’s credibility, not just his, will suffer. His policy is better than his description of it, and his description is convoluted because he lacks the courage of his sensible conviction that entanglement in Syria would be unwise.
- Opinion: NBA player makes history
- May 2, 2013
- Boom. And just like that, history is made. Just that quickly, a barrier becomes rubble. Just that fast, everything changes. “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center,” writes Jason Collins in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. “I’m black. And I’m gay.”
- Opinion: Pact seeks to curb ‘tax havens’
- May 1, 2013
- While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a potentially historic step — they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts.
- Opinion: Human capacity for violence not new
- May 1, 2013
- Who would do such a thing? How could anyone so callously bomb innocent people? Why? Those questions have reverberated for the last two weeks. They reached a peak over the weekend after law officers apprehended one of the brothers who are suspected of placing two pressure cooker-stuffed knapsacks near the Boston Marathon finish line, causing explosions that killed three people, maimed many others, threw the city into chaos and sent ripples of fear across New England and beyond.
- Opinion: U.S. must take the lead on Syria
- April 30, 2013
- There is something bizarre about the debate over how the United States should respond to the Syrian regime’s likely use of chemical weapons against its own people. The White House said Thursday that Syria may have used deadly sarin gas, after France, Britain, and Israel had made similar assessments. This puts President Obama in a pickle.
- Opinion: Israel in period of relative calm
- April 29, 2013
- It’s a measure of the relatively quiet time for Israel these days that the sharpest argument at a big national security conference here was between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who wanted “autonomy” for his fellow believers and secular Israelis in the audience who shouted out denunciations of what one called his “apartheid” plan.
- Opinion: Having a little humility never hurts
- April 28, 2013
- This is for the rest of us. Meaning the ones who don’t have personal chefs, gift-wrapping rooms or hired sycophants, who don’t hobnob or rub shoulders, and who drive the same car every day of the week.
- Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism May 21, 2013 · 46 comments
- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013 · 49 comments
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 39 comments
- Blog: Lawrence hosts mayor of Greece sister city this week May 22, 2013 · 1 comment
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013 · 19 comments
- Blog: Kansas science and math teachers easily recruited away May 20, 2013 · 51 comments
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 67 comments
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013 · 14 comments
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013 · 10 comments
- Local organizations aim to support tornado victims May 21, 2013 · 7 comments
- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013
- KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort May 21, 2013
- Lions face one more test February 29, 2008
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
- KU makes sudden change in Statehouse presence May 20, 2013
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013
