In a column for RenewAmerica, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline (in photo) joined the anti-abortion media’s crusade against President Obama’s nomination of Steve Six to the federal bench. Kline argued that Six, who was appointed Kansas attorney general by then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, “used the power of his office to thwart, delay and interfere with” a criminal case Kline had filed against Planned Parenthood when he was Johnson County’s district attorney. That case has yet to go to trial. “Six’s use of his office to protect the interests of a large corporate benefactor of a governor who appointed Six to office would scream corruption but for the injection of abortion politics,” wrote Kline, who now teaches at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Va. Kline is scheduled to return to Kansas July 19 for more ethics hearings on whether he misled a Johnson County grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood.
When a Milton homeowner was arrested and briefly jailed earlier this spring after shooting burglary suspects on his property, there was a public outcry — and understandably so. But judging from law enforcement accounts, a shoot-first mentality sent an innocent Rose Hill teen to the hospital Saturday night. The boy and two other teens reportedly had stopped to pick up a dead possum from a rural road when a homeowner fired three warning shots. After the teens scrambled back into their car and were driving off, according to authorities, the homeowner shot out the car’s back window, hitting a 17-year-old. Homeowners have the right to protect themselves. They don’t have the right to shoot people who have done nothing wrong.
What former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole misses about not being in politics anymore is “trying to work out compromises and bringing people together.” Unfortunately, that’s also what is missing in politics today. Dole said last weekend in Russell that governing “can’t be ‘my way or the highway.’” It requires give-and-take and seeking practical solutions.
In a column for RenewAmerica, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline (in photo) joined the anti-abortion media’s crusade against President Obama’s nomination of Steve Six to the federal bench. Kline argued that Six, who was appointed Kansas attorney general by then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, “used the power of his office to thwart, delay and interfere with” a criminal case Kline had filed against Planned Parenthood when he was Johnson County’s district attorney. That case has yet to go to trial. “Six’s use of his office to protect the interests of a large corporate benefactor of a governor who appointed Six to office would scream corruption but for the injection of abortion politics,” wrote Kline, who now teaches at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Va. Kline is scheduled to return to Kansas July 19 for more ethics hearings on whether he misled a Johnson County grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood.
