Politics as usual

If you don't like politics, don't read beyond this paragraph. You can look to the right, though, and see an unusual picture that I took the other day of my cat. For those of you who are interested in politics, read on.
[Sigh] It's politics as usual here in the capital city of Kansas. In a story that ran in today's Capital-Journal, the office of Attorney General Paul Morrison attacked all of former AG Phil Kline's charges against George Tiller, the infamous (or famous, depending on your bias) abortionist. The entire article amounts to a one-sided argument in favor of not prosecuting Mr. Tiller. Never mind that the argument only addresses 15 of the 30 counts against Mr. Tiller. (This, of course, implies that the other 15 have completely legitimate basis, a fact the article completely ignores.) Former AG Kline is vilified as being incompetent and unethical, an accusation that is unfounded and certainly inappropriate in a news story.
Once again, the Topeka Capital-(read "Democrat-") Journal has decided it is necessary to sway public opinion against someone with conservative political views. This "article" (if it could be called that) belongs on the Op-Ed page, not in the regular pages of the paper. That it came from the Associated Press (no friend of conservatives, either) is no excuse. The Capital-Journal should know better than to run such a slanted article. Yet, this is not the first case of one-sided reporting. The paper evidenced such bias during the last election cycle, when it took every opportunity to attack Phil Kline and then-Representative Jim Ryun. It will certainly be interesting to see how much positive coverage Sam Brownback gets as he makes his run for the Republican presidential nomination.