We’re melting as we banter about the weather in Kansas
Let’s talk about the weather. Yes, the weather.
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ADULTS WITH SMALLPOX VACCINE MAY HAVE IMMUNITY FROM MONKEYPOX
Dear Doctors: How long does the smallpox vaccine stay effective? I ask because I received it as a child in the 1950s. Is it known if the vaccine would be effective against monkeypox some 60 years later, or is a booster needed? Does a booster even exist?
Insight Kansas: The politics of a (partly) non-political attorney general candidate
Despite the fervent support the Republican leadership has given to the Value Them Both amendment, its fate on August 2 may not tell us much about the current Kansas GOP. But the Republican contest for Kansas attorney general, by contrast, may actually tell us a great deal.
Big Tech is Steamrolling America’s Newspapers
Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society – especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played a role in the misinformation that erodes our free press and plagues our democracy.
Without good teachers we’re in trouble people
I have never wanted to be a teacher Mainly because I knew I had zero talent and aptitude for that very important job. Nothing brought home the accuracy of that statement like having children of my own when the act of trying to teach my son to tie his shoes left both of us crying.
Surviving Summer
It’s ironic how I checked my weather app multiple times daily as we harvested wheat in June. We wanted to get the crop out of the fields before the summer storms rolled in, which always offers the potential of damaging hail or winds and could put harvest on hold while things would need to dry up.
THOUGH NOT YET CONSIDERED ENDEMIC, COVID-19 IS HERE TO STAY
Dear Doctors: We don’t hear about COVID-19 that much these days. The words I keep hearing are endemic, epidemic and outbreak.
You are both right, now chart a path forward
There was a moment at a recent Newton Kiwanis meeting visited by Sen. Jerry Moran that was kind of brushed aside, not really acknowledge for its profoundness or discussed much.
Choose Life
The upcoming vote for the Value Them Both Amendment on August 2, 2022 is a fulillment of Deuteronomy 30:15: “Now Listen! Today I am giving you a choice between Life and death, between prosperity and disaster.” (NLT) Does Kansas want the blessing of God or His curse? “Woe (judgment is coming) to him who buiLds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by violence!” Habakkuk 2:12 (AmpLified BibLe) Sin promises much, but ultimately delivers death, shame, and remorse. Abortion destroys lives, both the unborn and the mother’s, and eventually the society that promotes this violence. PLease refer to “The reality of abortion regret” by Leah Savas pubLished in World on Jan. 20, 2020 and “A Flawed Study Claims that Few Women Regret Abortion” by MichaeL J. New published in National Review on Jan. 15, 2020. Also read “Does Abortion Reduce Crime?” by Brian Clowes, PhD, published by Human Life International on March 17, 2021. “Today I have given you the choice between Life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you wouLd choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!” Deuteronomy 30:19 (NLT)
White Christian nationalism
An American crusader flag recently appeared in a Harvey County community. It’s an American flag with a superimposed Templar cross signifying adherence to white Christian nationalism, an anti-democratic movement that preaches freedom, control, and violence. Based on the historical myth that the United States was founded as a Christian, free market nation, it infers that our Constitutional freedoms are reserved solely for white Christians who are ordained by God to control, sometimes violently, the political and economic destinies of the country. To them the notion that the United States is a nation of laws and respectful to all its citizens is heresy. White Christian nationalism is tribal and racist open only to white Christians, Christian being code for acceptance into the tribe regardless of church membership or moral virtue. The primary goal of white Christian nationalism is the destruction of liberal democracy. Adherents argue that Liberal democracy and its socialist policies have opened the door to the unwashed masses who are not tribal legacies but through their increased numbers threaten white Christian supremacy. White Christian paranoia significantly increased during the Obama and current Biden presidencies, an era that has witnessed the growth of armed militias and gun ownership. The January 6 insurrection encapsulated in a terrifying afternoon the aim and tactics of the movement.