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kansasprairie.net: LET’S FIND OUR OWN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR….

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:14 -0500

Enough is enough. Let’s get the Dems together who object to candidate Wiggans and find our own candidate to run against him in the primary. There are good people out there whom Kansans would support. Too few people had any input into the decision to pick Wiggans….and that’s not the [...]

kansasprairie.net: NEED AN EVENT COORDINATOR OR WEDDING PLANNER?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:26:09 -0500

Have you thought how much stress would be off your shoulders if you had someone experienced who would help with your wedding or party plans? Would you like to have the perfect wedding but don’t know where to start to make it happen? Do you have an event in your [...]

WE Blog: Debt ceiling going through the roof

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:43:07 -0500

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The government will need to borrow at least $1.8 trillion next year, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said today. That’s more than earlier estimates. Raising the nation’s debt ceiling is a regular action for Congress. But this year, some lawmakers are trying to tie the [...]

The Kansas Progress: LifeNews — Obama Administration OKs First Taxpayer-Funded Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:31:45 -0500

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The Obama administration today authorized the first study using embryonic stem cells paid for at taxpayer expense. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama issued an executive order overturning President Bush’s limits preventing taxpayers from being forced to pay for the destruction of human life. Because embryonic stem [...]

The Kansas Progress: Concerned Women for America of Kansas: Health Care Reform Update

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:29:07 -0500

THE LATEST ON HEALTH CARE REFORM . . . On a motion made by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California), the Senate voted Tuesday night to table the Nelson-Hatch amendment that bars funding of “elective” abortions in the massive health care bill. While many of the news stories reported that this amendment restricted abortions, [...]

The Kansas Progress: LifeNews — United Church of Christ, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterians OK Abortion Funding

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:28:20 -0500

The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church are the four mainline protestant denominations to sign the letter asking lawmakers to oppose the Nelson amendment. They are joined by the Disciples Justice Action Center, NA’AMAT USA, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a pro-abortion group, [...]

The Kansas Progress: Johnson County Gov’t — Meeting Synopsis 12/10/09

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:28:04 -0500

M E E T I N G S Y N O P S I S -December 10, 2009- The Board of County Commissioners today authorized a road improvement agreement with the city of Edgerton related to the construction of improvements to 191st Street. The improvements would accommodate the Intermodal Facility proposed by [...]

The Kansas Progress: KMBC — Mizzou To Face Navy In Texas Bowl

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:27:29 -0500

The game will be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston and will be televised on ESPN. The Tigers finished with a 8-5 record and finished second in the Big 12 North.

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The Kansas Progress: Congressman Drops Effort To Honor Woods

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:26:01 -0500

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The Kansas Progress: KMBC — Report: 10 Coaches On Perkins’ List; Mark Mangino Resigned Thursday

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:20:53 -0500

The latest name added to the list is Ole Miss football coach Houston Nutt, who has reportedly spoken with Perkins about the job. Nutt, 52, is currently in the first of a four-year contract that pays him $2.5 million per season. Nutt has a 17-8 overall record in two seasons [...]

The Kansas Progress: AP — IOC: No Gold-Medal Winner In 2000 Women’s 100M

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:20:24 -0500

The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reallocated two individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping, but in an unprecedented move withheld her 100-meter prize from Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou because of her “disgraceful” behavior in evading drug tests at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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The Kansas Progress: France’s Sarkozy takes on Google in books dispute

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:19:37 -0500

GEISPOLSHEIM, France (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country’s literary heritage be taken away by a “friendly” large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google

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The Kansas Progress: Apple to launch tablet in spring 2010: analyst

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:18:49 -0500

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is preparing to launch a tablet personal computer in late March or April, with manufacturer partners poised to roll out as many as 1 million units per month, according to an Oppenheimer research note.

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kansasprairie.net: LEAVING OSLO…

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:54:02 -0500

My friend who has been in Norway is winging her way home, as I write this, on the Air Force 1 support plane. The plane trip home is pretty incredible, she says. I can only imagine…no lines, no waits, lots of leg room, good food and drink, clean bathrooms, ample [...]

WE Blog: Defending Huckabee’s decision

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:03:46 -0500

Number of comments: 25

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is being criticized by some of his fellow GOP presidential hopefuls for his decision nine years ago to reduce the jail sentence of Maurice Clemmons, who recently murdered four police officers in Washington state. But columnist Michael Gerson defended Huckabee’s decision, [...]

WE Blog: Open thread 12/11

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:02:14 -0500

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WE Blog: Tiahrt accuses Airbus of bribery

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:01:21 -0500

Number of comments: 4

U.S. firms that compete globally are barred by federal anti-corruption law from extending certain favors toward would-be foreign buyers. Yet the Pentagon, for example, waives such limits for foreign bidders including the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co, complains Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard. “If you [...]

WE Blog: Troubling trend on DUI fatalities

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:00:03 -0500

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Kansas was one of only seven states in which drunken driving fatalities increased from 2007 to 2008, and it had the second-highest percent increase — a troubling trend, particularly in this party-rich holiday season. Kansas fatalities were up 36 percent, from 109 deaths in 2007 to [...]

The Kansas Progress: Jack Cashill: Climategate, TWA Flight 800, and Andy Revkin

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:28:35 -0500

By Jack Cashill. Read more from Cashill at Cashill.com. Climategate, TWA Flight 800, and Andy Revkin © Jack Cashill The respective investigations into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 and into climate change have something very specific in common beyond the corruption of results for political ends. That is the role of the [...]

The Kansas Progress: “Help Wanted” at the University of East Anglia: Toby Toons Editorial Cartoon

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:23:26 -0500

By Toby Dials. Re-printed with permission.

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The Kansas Progress: Politico — Andrew Breitbart launching journalism site

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:17:08 -0500

The site - to be called Big Journalism - builds on the “Big” brand Breitbart launched in September with Big Hollywood and Big Government. Both sites have made waves with stories exposing past controversial remarks by Obama administration officials and by featuring a series of videos of ACORN officials inappropriately [...]

The Kansas Progress: Karl Rove — Can Republicans Retake the Senate in 2010? Probably not, but their candidate recruitment so far has been stellar

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:16:10 -0500

Today, there are only 40 Republicans in the Senate. In January 2011, there could be 44, 46 or more if the party runs strong campaigns in contests that haven’t jelled yet, or if some Democrats retire instead of risking defeat.

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The Kansas Progress: You Will Lose Your Private Health Insurance — Robert Tracinski

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:15:21 -0500

Forget about abortion. Of course the left will accept restrictions on funding for abortion, because they want to keep moderate Democrats on board for the goal they know is really important: giving the government a dominant role in health care. Everything else is just details, and funding for abortions is [...]

The Kansas Progress: The Environmental Shakedown — Charles Krauthammer

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:13:35 -0500

WASHINGTON — In the 1970s and early ’80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, [...]

The Kansas Progress: Mike Gravel says Sarah Palin will run for president

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:11:52 -0500

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The Kansas Progress: Politico — Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:11:35 -0500

The leadership is betting that it’s better for the party to take its lumps now rather than risk further votes over the coming year. But the enormity of the number could create its own dynamic, much as another debt ceiling fight in 1985 gave rise to the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction [...]

The Kansas Progress: Ken Salazar: George W. Bush ’slept’ through climate change

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:10:53 -0500

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The Kansas Progress: 111 new federal departments under ObamaCare

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:47:08 -0500

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Voice For Liberty in Wichita: Former Congressman McEwen endorses Kelsey, talks about economics

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:19:53 -0500

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This week former Ohio Representative Bob McEwen appeared in Wichita on behalf of Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey and his campaign for the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives from the fourth district of Kansas.

At a breakfast meeting, McEwen said that his state — Ohio [...]

The Idiot Factor: More on Tiaht’s C Street Scandal

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:38:00 -0500

More news on the C Street house which Rep. Todd Tiahrt lives in and takes part in.

From The Figtin’ Cock Flyer:

The Kansas 'Christian mafia' reaches beyond C Street
Recent rulings have determined that the notorious residence in Washington DC could no longer be considered [...]

JOCOSOB: N9NE ON FRIDAY

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:31:00 -0500

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