Conservative Kansas Republicans splinter to form Kansas Republican Assembly
A faction of Kansas Republicans left the GOP to form a new Kansas Republican Assembly, vacating offices in Topeka and trashing documents. Moderates returning to power found shredded files, a near empty treasury, and deleted donor, mailing, and county officer records. Former chair Steve Abrams admitted deleting computer files. Conservatives defend principles but are accused of dirty tricks.
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Kansas Republican Party
Kansas Republican Assembly
Kansas Gop
GOP
Topeka
Kansasity Star
Kansas
Bers
Steve Abrams
Memorial tribute and wartime service echo in reader note
Ottawa veteran Charles E Fisher praises a veterans memorial and recalls his World War II service with Battery B 161st Field Artillery under Capt Earl S Bigler. He notes Leonard Gates, Ottawa High graduate, died in the Bataan death march and urges naming the new north side park Leonard Gates Park.
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Veterans Memorial
Kansas National Guard
O.H.S
161St Field Artillery
Earl S. Bigler
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Earl
C.O
Air Corps
Ottawa High
Leonard Gates
Leonard
Bataan
Fifth and Main
Charles E. Fisher
Hamilton
Ohio
Webtv
Reader Forum submissions guidelines
Readers are invited to send hand signed letters with full author address and telephone. Mail to Reader Forum The Ottawa Herald 104 S Cedar Ottawa KS 66067 or email letters ottawaherald.com. Submissions must not exceed 500 words.
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Ottawaherald
Clinton era view of Saddam Hussein as dangerous regime
The Clinton administration labeled Saddam Hussein dangerous and defiant. Elizabeth Jones argues Iraq remains capable of WMD. Containment and no fly zones persist despite the broken UN disarmament program.
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Clinton Stzisi Station
Saddam Hussein
A. Elizabeth Jones
Congress
U.S
United Nations
Iraq
Beth Jones
Tion
United States
Martin Indyk
Life as a Series of Bags From Diapers to Duffel
The piece muses that life unfolds as a sequence of bags from infancy to old age. Diaper bags, book bags, gym bags, shopping bags, and duffel bags mark stages, with lamaze and honeymoon bags symbolizing milestones, plus grocery and craft bags piling up as life repeats the cycle.
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Alichud UA Lcoc
Demagogue in Paris A Jackson House Review
Kathleen Parker writes about Jesse Jackson speaking at American University in Paris, noting the crowd’s mix of students and journalists, the protesters outside, and Jackson’s self focused sermon on Kosovo and human rights. The piece lampoons his comparisons to Jesus and Gandhi and ends with a warning about power and myth.
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Jesse Jackson
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American University
United States
Eva Jackson
California
Man
Jesus Christ
Mahatma Gandhi
Iraq
Cuba
Syria
Brother Man
Kathleen Parker
Orlando Sentinel
Kparker
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