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http://www.kssmallbiz.com/images/article_103_item_1.gif by “The Weasel Zone is where everything’s misleading without actually being a lie.”-Steve Adams, creator of “Dilbert”. According to figures recently released by the School Finance Section of the Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas public school districts spent an average of $8,490 per full-time equivalent pupil in 2001-2002, an increase of $466 or 5.81% from the previous year. The average increase in per pupil spending for the last ten years was 4.83% per year compared to average inflation of 2.53% per year. For the last five years, it was 5.31% per year compared to inflation of 2.34% per...

By Bobby Eberle GOPUSA News WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- A new surveillance system designed to monitor activities such as airline ticket purchases, car rentals, credit card transactions, and gun purchases is currently being developed to help prevent potential terrorist attacks. The development of the Total Information Awareness System (TIA) was confirmed Wednesday by Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge during a news briefing at the Pentagon. "The war on terror and the tracking of potential terrorists and terrorist acts require that we search for clues of such activities in a mass of data," Aldridge...

Dear Friends: Election night is just about over, approximately one week after it began. And it is ending very well indeed! To date, the recount and provisional ballot process has increased our election night lead from 3,006 votes to 4,278 votes. There are only 1,683 votes remaining that need to be counted. Accordingly, the media is declaring that I (we) have won the Attorney General's race. The remaining votes are located in Kingman and Sedgwick Counties. Those counties should report tomorrow. Mr. Biggs has the statutory right to request a recount. If my margin of victory is less than ½...

Mission creep is a term often heard in discussions about the use of the U.S. military in implementing foreign policy. Mission creep is nothing more than going in with one goal and having achieved it, finding many other goals upon which to expend dollars, time, and resources. The military goes in to break up a fight and we end up trying to rebuild a nation. Mission creep is not limited to the military and foreign policy. The expansion of our government, its intrusion into our lives, and the diminution of our freedoms is an example of mission creep. Our Founders...

This will be a resource for all information and all activities for the race to the finish line. We can elect our true Republican candidates. We need a freep wherever we can get it, especially Western Kansas. People on street corners waving signs, handing out fliers, putting information on cars at churches etc. Let me know what you can do and I will put you in touch with the right people. This is urgent, we need you now, not Monday.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Democrat Kathleen Sebelius remains ahead of Republican Tim Shallenburger in their race for governor, a new poll released Friday showed, but the contest was getting closer. The telephone survey of 625 likely Kansas voters on Tuesday and Wednesday showed Sebelius with 49 percent to Shallenburger's 42 percent. Seven percent of respondents were undecided and 2 percent supported minor party candidates. Rest of articleThe poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C., for The Lawrence Journal World and other media outlets. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4...

Friends we have ten days left to spread the truth about Tim Shallenburger and Kathleen Sebelius. We have TEN DAYS left to tell our friends and family members why Tim Shallenburger is the only candidate who will protect our schools, our pocketbooks and our streets. Our opponents commercials are VERY misleading. We aren't interested in attacking Kathleen Sebelius as a person; but in the interest of Kansas we have to fight against her ploys to mislead the citizens of this state. As Tim said at Tuesday's final debate, "There's a whole variety of things that we differ on, and it's...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Sebelius apologized Thursday for her remark that driving on Missouri roads was "much more terrifying to me than the attacks on the World Trade Center." "I take full responsibility for what was an insensitive comment," she told The Associated Press. "I'm very sorry I made an insensitive comment." She also issued a written statement, which she planned to give at the start of a forum in Wichita. "I would like to apologize to the people of Kansas and the memories of those who lost their lives on September 11th and their families and loved ones," her...

In 1992, Kathleen Sebelius, who is the Democratic candidate for governor, cast her vote in the legislature to destroy excellence in education in our public schools. She voted for statewide mediocrity. What's worse, as a gubernatorial candidate, Kathleen Sebelius is still defending that same, devastating system. In 1992, Tim Shallenburger, who is the Republican candidate for governor, cast his vote in the legislature against the new school finance system. He has called it socialistic. And he is exactly right. It is. Kathleen Sebelius says now that local districts should be able to raise more money beyond their current restrictions, but...

Bob Dole was back in Kansas on Monday, stumping for Republican candidates and cracking jokes about Strom Thurmond and Viagra. "I see a lot of familiar faces," the former five-term senator said near the beginning of his speech at the Hilton Garden Inn in Downtown Kansas City, Kan. "Nobody's gotten any older. But my eyes have gotten worse." Dole, 79, spent much of the morning campaigning for Republican Adam Taff, the 3rd District congressional candidate who is running against Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore. Dole attended a $50-a-person breakfast with about 250 others and made a television ad. He then flew...

Former Sen. Bob Dole won't be voting for his wife in November. Instead of supporting Elizabeth Dole's bid to be a North Carolina senator, the former presidential candidate will come home to Kansas, where he will cast a vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Shallenburger because "he's a good conservative." "He understands that we're going to have to cut spending and not raise taxes," Dole said at a campaign stop Monday. Dole took a swing through Kansas on Monday to stump -- and raise money -- for Shallenburger as well as Adam Taff, the Republican nominee seeking to unseat incumbent...

You have read about Kathleen Sebelius's current lead in the polls. A broadcast last night on KWCH in Wichita reported that Sebelius has a 57% to 37% lead. Though the methodology of the poll was seriously flawed, we at the campaign do not doubt that she has the lead - for now. The company conducting the poll was recently skewered in Roll Call for the ridiculous way in which they conduct their poll. (http://www.rollcall.com/pages/politics/00/2002/08/pol0801c.html) Most credible news organizations have quit using SurveyUSA. While we would rather be ahead in the polls, of course, these numbers have not caused panic among...

Where, oh where do my tax dollars go! This line has not been used for a while, but during a political campaign season, it is time to once again give thought to how politicians squander your money in their quest for power. Members of Congress gave themselves a $5,000 raise this session. They gave themselves the raise by doing nothing. In 1989, Congress passed a law that handed future congressmen, without taking a vote, an automatic yearly pay increase based on a complicated formula that takes into account who knows what. They could, of course, have voted to refuse the...

Question: When is an endorsement not an endorsement? Answer: When it's Gov. Bill Graves' endorsement of Tim Shallenburger. Shallenburger, a conservative, won the GOP gubernatorial nomination Aug. 6. Graves made Shallenburger wait until Thursday before endorsing his own party's candidate for governor. Some endorsement. Graves could barely bring himself to call Shallenburger, the state treasurer, by name. "The treasurer and I could find several things we probably are not going to agree on," Graves said. "This endorsement is about those things that we do know we do agree upon, and principal among those is our commitment to the Republican Party."...

Central Kansas Media Tour September 25 & 26 9/24 RON Wichita Hampton Inn Wednesday 9/25 9:00 - 9:30 am Kingman Kingman Leader-Courier 620-532-3151 Contact: Bob McQuinn 140 North Main 10:00 - 10:30 am Harper Harper Advocate 620-896-7311 Contact: Ken Leu 907 Central 11:00 - 11:45 am Medicine Lodge Gyp Hill Premier 620-886-5654 Contact: Sara Morford 110 North Main KREJ Radio 620-886-3537 Contact: Mike Henry 301 South Main 12:30 - 1:15 pm Pratt Luncheon w/ supporters Contact: Location: 1:15 - 2:00 pm Pratt Pratt Tribune 620-672-5511 Contact: Mr. Gail Rose 320 South Main KWLS Radio 620-672-5581 Contact: News Director 30219 East...

Debate in Colby scheduled Following debates in central and south-central Kansas, voters in the northwest corner of the state will have an opportunity to hear the major party gubernatorial candidates square off. Republican Tim Shallenburger and Democrat Kathleen Sebelius are scheduled to take part in a debate from 7 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 6 in Colby. The debate will take place in the Northwest Kansas Cultural Arts Center on the Colby Community College campus. Then, on Oct. 8, the candidates will take part in a fourth debate in Overland Park. That debate, sponsored by three Kansas City, Kan.-area chambers...

Election: Experts say Democrats benefit from gender gap phenomenon Democrat Kathleen Sebelius has a wide lead over Republican Tim Shallenburger in the governor's race thanks in large part to the support of women, a new poll shows. The poll, commissioned by the Wichita Eagle and Wichita television station KWCH-TV, gave Sebelius a 17-point lead less than two months away from the Nov. 5 election. The survey of 680 likely voters across the state showed Sebelius leading 55 percent to 38 percent, with the rest either undecided or committed to Libertarian Dennis Hawver or Reform Party candidate Todd Pettibone. The poll,...

More than six weeks after the primary election, Gov. Bill Graves will endorse his party's nominee at a news conference this afternoon. "The governor will endorse us," said Bob Murray, a spokesman for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Shallenburger. "It was just a matter of time before it happened." A joint news conference has been scheduled for 2 p.m. in Graves' Statehouse office. Shallenburger, a conservative Republican who is also the state treasurer, won his party's nomination in the Aug. 6 primary. Since then, Graves, a moderate Republican, has repeatedly declined to make an endorsement. The two Republicans met for an...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Excellencies: Unavoidable obligations within the country, derived from a colossal effort aimed at the social development of our people – particularly in the fields of education, culture, health and science – to multiply its capacity to cope with the blockade and the effects of the international economic crisis, preserve the Revolution and ensure its independence amid pugnacious policies, threats and risks, have prevented our President from traveling to Johannesburg this time. Ten years ago, President Fidel Castro highlighted ideas such as these: “An important biological species is in danger of disappearing due to the fast and progressive...

We need our loudest most enthusiastic Shallenburger Supporters! Come out for the 1st debate between Tim and his opponent this Saturday! Join us at the State Fair Grounds in Hutchinson, on the Farm Bureau Stage This Saturday September 7th 11:00 am We're looking for a packed house so bring your family and friends (and their friends and family!) Thanks, we'll see you there!!! Rachelle