November 24, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Author: Jack Cashill

Laura Kelly: “Little Getting Around A Need To Spend More”

To be fair to Kansas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Laura Kelly, “there’s little getting around a need to spend more” is…

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Yoder Calls On Sharice “No Show” Davids To Show For 3 Debates

Congressional Democratic candidate Sharice Davids shocked even her supporters with her last minute withdrawal from the Johnson County Bar Association…

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Fired UMKC Whistleblower Seeks Justice

In an extraordinary memo this past March, UMKC Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer conceded that Dr. Richard Arend, until recently a tenured…

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Shocker: KNEA Withdraws Support of Deaf Candidate in Kansas House Race

One had to give credit where it is due: the KNEA, the Kansas branch of the National Educational Association, has…

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Trump Gives Steve Watkins Huge Boost in Topeka Speech

For Steve Watkins and Kris Kobach, President Donald Trump could not have picked a better day to stump for the…

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Good Samaritans Save Woman From Knife Wielding Beau in Downtown KC

In the same news cycle that Kansas City, Missouri, observed its 100th homicide of 2018, the media reported the heroic…

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Whoa! Star Chides Davids For Last Minute Duck of JOCO Debate

The opening sentence of the Wednesday Kansas City Star article is pretty damning: “Democrat Sharice Davids has pulled out of…

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Shocker: Liberal Star Jason Kander Withdraws From KC Mayor’s Race, Cites PTSD

“By all objective measures, things have been going well for me the past few months,” writes Jason Kander on his…

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AP Slams Kelly for Claiming Kobach Called Schools “Overfunded”

When the Associated Press calls a claim in a Democratic ad false, as it did for a Laura Kelly ad…

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Why is Sharice Davids Ducking Debate With Congressman Yoder?

Veteran KMBC TV political reporter Michael Mahoney spelled out the problem in a September 21 tweet: “KCK Chamber says ‘every…

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Star Promotes Protestor Sabotage of Trump Topeka Event

Protestors plan to sabotage the appearance of President Donald Trump in Topeka next weekend, and the Kansas City Star does…

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Wow! Hawley Asks McCaskill to Jim Him In Call For Special Counsel

Early Monday morning, the Sentinel opined, “Josh Hawley and his strategists should read [the Mitchell report] carefully. They should then…

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Remember When Kansas Media Told Us NOT to Believe Victims

On Wednesday the Kansas City Star scolded those on the right defending Judge Brett Kavanaugh for their failure to believe victims and…

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Olathe Teacher Arrested For Sex With Student, Star Conceals Orientation

In the first sentence of its article on the arrest last year of Olathe South High School Teacher Michael Jasiczek for…

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Kansas Journalists Ask: Are We the “Enemy of the People”?

“I’m not going to be bullied and backed down just because the president of the United States thinks I’m an…

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Star Slights Trump Stump Speech For Hawley in Springfield

There are more than 20 news stories on the Kansas City Star’s Saturday home page, but none of them involves…

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Should Davis’s Strip Club History Be Fair Game in Congressional Race?

Congressional candidate Paul Davis might have thought his unfortunate history with strip clubs and private sex sessions old news, but…

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27 Months for “Rising Star in Democratic Party”

Last January, the Sentinel congratulated the Kansas City Star for pointing out in the very first sentence of its article on the…

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Police Search for “Light-Skinned Male” in Deadly KC Crash

The desperate effort by the media–and possibly by the Kansas City Police Department–to avoid the subject of race in reporting…

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Missouri Parents Say Child’s School Collects Family Data for Google

The threat from Google to parents of school children would be ominous enough if Google were just another company, but…

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Why Has Deaf Community Turned Against First Deaf Candidate for Kansas House?

As the first deaf candidate for the Kansas House, Chris Haulmark has gotten a lot of media attention, even from…

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Save the Persecuted Christians Conference Comes to KC on 22nd

To read the news one would think that Christians are more likely to be persecutors than to be persecuted. One…

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Olathe School District Quiet on Dismissal of Teacher/ City Councilman

The life as he knew of it Shawnee City Councilman/ Olathe East history teacher Justin Adrian, 33, came to a screeching…

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Feds Say No Leniency for Former Missouri Dem Chairman

Former Jackson County prosecutor, county executive and Missouri Democratic Party chairman Mike Sanders is about to take a trip he would…

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