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Columnist Jason Whitlock is leaving The Kansas City Star
After 16 years of writing thought-provoking and popular columns for The Kansas City Star, Jason Whitlock is leaving the paper to pursue other interests.
Columnist Jason Whitlock is leaving The Kansas City Star
After 16 years of writing thought-provoking and popular columns for The Kansas City Star, Jason Whitlock is leaving the paper to pursue other interests.
JetBlue case: The lost art of simple courtesy
Can we be candid here? Can we just say this plainly?
Republicans pander over ‘Ground Zero mosque’
Lies, distortions, jingoism, xenophobia — another day, another campaign issue that Republicans can use to bash President Obama and the Democrats. First it was illegal immigration. Now it’s the so-called Ground Zero mosque, which is not at all what its opponents claim.
Don’t like your banking fees? Tell the FDIC.
There are a lot of bank fees that deserve the “Slater Slide.” Steven Slater is the JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly cursed an uncooperative and rude passenger, then opened an emergency exit and jumped down the aircraft’s escape slide. He slid into infamy or history — depending on your take on the story — for [...]
Don’t like your banking fees? Tell the FDIC.
There are a lot of bank fees that deserve the “Slater Slide.” Steven Slater is the JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly cursed an uncooperative and rude passenger, then opened an emergency exit and jumped down the aircraft’s escape slide. He slid into infamy or history — depending on your take on the story — for [...]
Who has the right to judge?
He had no right to judge.<p/> That, in a nutshell, is the gist of last week's uproar over a ruling by Vaughn Walker. Walker is the federal judge, originally appointed by Ronald Reagan and generally regarded, according to the Associated Press, as “a conservative with libertarian leanings,'' who struck down Proposition 8, California's [...]
Michelle Singletary: IRS decision means tax-refund loans will be harder to make
The Internal Revenue Service has dealt a hard blow to a tax product that has long needed to be knocked out.
Michelle Singletary: IRS decision means tax-refund loans will be harder to make
The Internal Revenue Service has dealt a hard blow to a tax product that has long needed to be knocked out.
Requiem for a child . . . and common sense
This is a requiem for Willy Brown.<p/> As these words are written, he lies brain dead and on life support at Miami Children's Hospital. By the time you read this, there's a good chance he will have been disconnected and declared dead. He is, or he was, two years old. His father, 23-year-old [...]