Category Archives: Politics
Time To End The War Of Attrition Plaguing The Star‘s Letters Section
Dear Kansas City, Look, we get it. A lot of you are upset. A third of you think that President Hope is running this country into the ground. A third of you think racism is driving any and all criticism … Continue reading
Filed under Economics, Education, In the News, Media, Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Jesus-Hating Blue Springs Denies Sign For Local Christian School
Woe is Christianity! The oft-persecuted faith is again under assault from heartless, secular bureaucrats — those evil souls who sit in their heathen dens of government iniquity and devise new ways to keep poor Christians from celebrating their faith freely. … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Politics, Religion
So I Guess They Were Jovial Vandals, Then?
As you may have heard this morning, some local mountebanks took it upon themselves to hit the improbably named Penguin Park with some anti-Obama graffiti last night. But judging from this screenshot, we can at least be comforted by the … Continue reading
Star Gets Weekly Letter From Constitutionally Illiterate Conservative
Sheesh. This is getting to be a near-weekly occurrence: some metro area supporter of John Sidney McCain III, fed up with the government takeover orchestrated by that socialist Kenyan, pens a poorly reasoned and logically unsound letter to the editor … Continue reading
Shay Baker Maintains Intense Focus On What’s Important During Very Trying Day
Here we can see, courtesy of deposed Leavenworth Mayor Shay Baker’s Facebook page — why is it that public servants don’t make their pages private? — that she knows what’s really important on this difficult day. You can also read, … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Politics
Shay Baker Gets Avada Kedavra’d By Leavenworth Commissioners
At last, though long, our jarring notes agree/And time it is when raging war is done/To smile at ‘scapes and perils overblown. Sad news from the mystical land of Leavenworth tonight: Shay Baker, Glamour Shot princess and friend o’ coke … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Crime, Politics
Phew! Good thing Messrs. Brownback and Roberts spared us from having prisoners at Leavenworth — can you imagine the horror if we actually kept people in that jail? Oh, and classy move describing your blocking of appointees as “good faith … Continue reading
!!!!!!!Joe The Plumber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Break out your robes and start the hosannas! Erstwhile clog-fixer and right-wing corporeal agitprop Joe the Plumber is coming to our fair city. Could it be? Are we so lucky that we might actually be graced by his freedom-lovin’ presence? … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
Looking To Get A Lighter Sentence In Leavenworth? Hey, Just Be Friends With The Mayor!
“Operation Stonewalled”: no, it’s not just a joke about gay rights or famous generals. Turns out it was the name of a huge drug bust up in ol’ Leavenworth, that haven of crime and mullets north of town. Among those … Continue reading
Filed under City Government, Crime, Law, Politics
