The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Monday, April 21:As the nation celebrates Earth Day on Tuesday, it's an excellent opportunity to highlight the positive initiatives taken in...

The news that a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is suspected of shooting and killing three people near Jewish community centers in Kansas seems, at first glance, like a disparaged past flaring...

A young girl stood up at the microphone in front of a theater packed with adults and asked the speaker how she could ensure that she receive an adequate science education. Richard Dawkins, world-renowned...

Since the peaceful protests that began on Nov. 21, 2013 turned violent three months later, the whole world has been watching Ukraine. There have been talks between European Union member states, NATO, the...

In the midst of shock and sorrow, there is bewilderment. The mass attack Wednesday morning at Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh, with 19 students and a security guard stabbed or slashed, including...

I have just had an unpleasant encounter with the Department of Motor Vehicles (is there any other kind?). But I am arguing for government.The problem in this country is not big government. It is bad, inefficient,...

Bob was a dirt-poor kid from Pensacola, Fla., when he won a scholarship for football at a Division One school in Mississippi. He had grown up in the kind of poverty most of us can hardly imagine, and the...

I question Haoran Li’s use of the word “incompetent” in his March 18 column to describe President Obama’s handling of the Crimean crisis.Since Obama has told Russian president Vladimir Putin not...

This year was always going to be a difficult one for Democrats as they battle to keep their five-seat majority in the Senate. But in recent months, the political landscape has grown bleaker.Democrats have...

1. Your room and board rates are going up more than 3.8 percent next year. The Board of Trustees decided that on Wednesday.2. While students are paying hundreds more, President Lester Lefton is receiving...

The Dallas Morning News (MCT) The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, March 11:There is no doubt, as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., told colleagues last week, that members...

Unless you follow fashion news, you may have missed a recent story out of the United Kingdom. Mahiki, a London hotspot popular with celebrities and young royals, announced that it is permanently banning...