Brownback's Intriguing (and Possibly Incoherent) Gun Rights Crusade

Last week our governor, Sam Brownback, signed into a law a bill titled "The Second Amendment Protection Act," which the bill's proponents trumpeted as "the strictest Second Amendm…

Glenn Beck Gives Utopia a Bad Name

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] So Glenn Beck has proposed his grandest scheme yet : the construction of separate planned community, literally built around (in terms of architecture and overa…

The Best Book I've Read This Political Season (About the Last One)

Writing a book on current events is a complicated crap-shoot. In an age of blogs, social media, and basically instantaneous communication, to write and get published a book that examines in depth a c…

The Kansas GOP has Thought Itself Out of Another Good Politician

[This is a submission to the Wichita Eagle ; we'll see if they take it. Update, 9/7/2012, 1:00pm CST: a shortened version of the article was printed in the Eagle here .] When state Senator Jean …

Ill Fares the Land of Kansas

Frequently over the years, but especially since Thomas Frank's bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas came out, my adopted state has been written off by various secular and liberal writer…