You could say that Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is rubbing salt in the wounds of everyone struggling with the rising cost of everything. The senator put out a press release Wednesday patting himself on the…

We’ve had a stream of visitors to the Register recently taking advantage of free tickets to this weekend’s circus in Humboldt and its recent music festival, the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson and the Renaissance…

Along with a few of my colleagues, I organize our university’s Constitution Day event around Sept. 17 — the anniversary of the completion of the proposed U.S. Constitution at the end of the Constitution Convention…

The Kansas State Fair political debates over the weekend made national news, especially the part where the crowd chanted “Shame on you! Shame on you!” at Republican Sen. Roger Marshall as he sought to downplay…

As a veteran, the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, did not come with an expiration date. National security is not solely the responsibility of the…

Mark Twain once said of the praise he’d received: “I do love compliments, yet I’m often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment, I so often feel that…

“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.” Those words were uttered by…

Kansans may remember the rise and spectacular fall of Gov. Sam Brownback’s disastrous tax experiment, which was designed to eliminate the state income tax. Less well known to Kansans is the key role that current…

I remember the call. The city manager told me to buckle up. A re-zoning for a smelly new potato-salad factory was coming my way. On a street with nothing but houses.  My life as a…

I admit my naïveté. When I first heard President Trump say, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000” if Republicans retain their Congressional majorities in…