Opinion

August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city. Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb reported, “People exposed within half a mile of the … fireball were seared to bundles of smoking black char in a fraction of a second as their internal organs boiled away…”

I stood at the edge of a two-story dock, frozen.

By: Greg Doering, Kansas Farm Bureau According to recent reports the summer heat is causing corn to sweat in the field. Is it the corn’s… Login to continue reading Login…

Amid all the ominous signs for the unraveling of our constitutional republic — and the 50 state governments contained therein — one last month struck me as particularly bleak.

“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead. That was a big mistake you made. You didn’t come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness.”

Did a utopian society proposed in the horse-and-buggy days of 1888 predict our massive Costco and WallMart stores and the use of credit cards for payment. —Well, maybe.

In the discourse surrounding transgender minors, something that I feel is often overlooked is the sheer amount of waiting trans youth and their families have to do.