The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.
To the editor: This is in response to the letter by Margaret Kramar that appeared in the paper on July 14. This was in reference to the value of prime farmland. She stated that this farm ground only produced food for cattle and hogs. I’m assuming that she is a vegetarian, who doesn’t eat ...
To the Editor: Much has been written by others in this space about the upcoming constitutional question concerning Kansas Supreme Court judges. Here are some points that have not been touched on. First, the amendment, which takes up one entire side of a 17-inch ballot, is strangely silent as ...
To the editor: Haskell Indian Nations University faces its greatest crisis in its 142-year history. Several devastating factors drive this crisis. A year ago, the Higher Learning Commission sanctioned Haskell’s accreditation as “at-risk” given stark conditions at the university. Loss of ...
“A Face in the Crowd” is the prophetic 1957 movie about a charismatic drifter “discovered” in an Arkansas jail. The face belongs to “Lonesome” Rhodes, a scoundrel whose folksy act catapults him to national prominence. “Lonesome” (Andy Griffith) abuses women, but the crowd only ...
Since the Fourth of July celebration of the nation’s 250 years was a bust, let’s look at the next anniversary, noting when a Puritan governor declared that we would be as “a city upon a hill” in 1630. Almost 400 years later, in our summer of desperation, that’s a quaint ...
Time-honored wisdom holds that if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. The explosion of venom, vitriol, vandalism and violence against Jews since Israel was attacked by genocidal killers on Oct. 7, 2023, raises the question: Is what certainly looks ...
