Tale of two cities

Today's front page brought an interesting (and inadvertent) contrast in city governance over the last two years. Former Commissioner Janet English passed away. That story recalls a different time when the buzzword was "progressive." The current commission, faced with revenue shortfalls, uses the buzzphrase "core services" as they make cuts and refocus

Conflict of Interest

Should have posted this several days ago but better late than never.
Obama looks clean in this Blago scandal but I must say that the acceptance of Obama's internal investigation is odd. It's about all he can do, but it is also akin to the fox guarding the henhouse.

Barack the magic Negro

Is this really defensible? Obama will probably get 98, instead of 93 percent, of the African American vote next time

Here we go again

Anti-immigration forces revving up again.

Quote of the day

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."
H.L. Mencken, journalist writer, 1949


(This is on my first amendment calendar from the Freedom Forum)

Inauguration

Anybody know anybody going to the Obama inauguration?

Brown-back

He's leaving the Senate as promised (nice to see somebody let go of power as they promised) although Gov. ain't a bad job, either.

This sets up a real competition for U.S. Senator between Reps. Jerry Moran and Tiahrt on the Republican side, with Gov. Sebelius — unless she gets tapped by Obama between now and 2010 — as the only big name on the Democratic side. Brownback would then have a pretty clear path to Governor with Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson? or Rep. Dennis Moore perhaps standing in his way? (look out for Dennis McKinney, the newly appointed state Treasurer, too)

Kansas hasn't had a Democratic Senator since the 1930s.