Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home

he is a bigoted baby. I would expect tears next -- oh dear -- he writes laws to destroy families and he is worried about his little ones. Oh, my -- and this is his office. Good point. Guess he doesn't really have an office and should be paying the state for the part time use of the state office for his private and paid for anti-immigrant business.

June 17, 2013 at 5:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Education department challenges 'innovative districts' law

It is sadly ironic that three professional politician with proven ugly and hateful attitutes towards the rational professional educators will want more and more power based on =- smaller government. Right. Smaller for the rightwing nuts; larger for the professional teachers. Name the districts, Dave. And name "quite a few" -- I'll be glad to check it out.

June 13, 2013 at 6:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

NBAF at center of budget fight between Obama and House Republicans

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12...

nope, not to himself. reduce his own salary in April 2013 by 5 percent.

June 9, 2013 at 7:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

NBAF at center of budget fight between Obama and House Republicans

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire...

You are wrong about the "executive order to give himself a raise" a false story spread by a fictional newspaper and believed by the ignorant.

Again, what -- kenyan muslim socialist president born on the Moon. Right? Spread that part. Fool.

June 5, 2013 at 2:23 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Republicans approve tax, appropriations bills to conclude legislative session

Brownbackistan -- love Koch or leave it -- yup, like that....

June 3, 2013 at 6:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Republicans approve tax, appropriations bills to conclude legislative session

Koch Brothers don't have mortgages, no doubt. So they don't need a deduction -- note -- a deduction to help people own houses -- owners probably take better care of their property, thus protecting property values for the whole block, etc. -- and they eat only beans or such, so Koch Brothers don't care about the highest sales tax on food.

So Sammy doesn't have to do anything about those taxes since his owners don't pay them much. OK ...

June 3, 2013 at 6:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: Extremism is not about race

Having stood in the Beg Mosque in Sarajevo with dear friends -- I remember that Orthodox Catholics and Roman Catholics attacked the Muslim city of Sarajevo, held it hostage for years, and tried to kill everone in it. Didn't hear much about the religion of the attackers did we? No. (Note: the same three groups did fight to protect their city -- damn, hard to be rational and blame groups. There are days I would like to be an ignorant racist hater, but doesn't work...)

June 3, 2013 at 5:59 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Effort to block new education standards fails in House

Word on the street is that some Kansas state senators will move to make science illegal in Kansas. Avoids the whole issue of thinking. Of course, since gravity is just a theory, like evolution (the Senators don't really know what 'theory' means, but), there will no gravity in Kansas, allowing easier farming. Going to be a fun sight seeing all those tea pots flying around. (No wait, flying won't be possible without science.) Never mind.

June 2, 2013 at 6:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Bill sought by opponents of Common Core standards before the Legislature

DDR -- no paper in the country, but 16 million files on citizens. Free German Youth -- "Erich, Erich, Erich" -- what a place. The bank account of Honecker had 40 million DMarks in it, money paid by West German families to released East Germans relatives. Corruption all around. I stood, with student friends, graduates of the last year of DDR schools, in the bunker that was to protect them from an invasion from the West. Yup. That was to be their fear.

Speaking in whispers over a kitchen table at dinner every night. Radios turned to the lowest sound level and held against their ears in the early morning bathroom visit to hear the illegal news from the West radio stations. The fools that compare a national standard of science and math education to 'communism' have no freak'n idea of what they speak.

June 2, 2013 at 6:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Budget advances with 'devastating' cuts to KU

Sad. Public higher education in Kansas allowed the working folks to send their kids to universities that were among the top public ones (or just in general) in the nation at affordable rates. Those children often remained in the state, or certainly in Wichita, Topeka, or Johhson County, etc., and provided the middle-class growth of Kansas cities. And many of the teachers and doctors and engineers that built the state up after WWII and later.

This investment also allowed great sports events, art, social workers, psychologist, and business leaders.

Now a post above wants to sell it all to the Koch Brothers or like that and let the schools become merely extension of private fiefdoms and personal theocracies. Guess that keeping the working poor without higher education must be an ALEC recommendation. And, yup, that will provide a lot of cheap labor for the few that own the state. As I said, sad.

June 2, 2013 at 6:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )