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Vicki Behenna, mom of imprisoned soldier Michael Behenna, was interviewed on the Jim Cates CJOnline radio program on Friday, Sept. 24 about her son and other soldiers imprisoned at the U.S. Military Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth.

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Recently Shirley Sherrod, USDA director of rural development in Georgia, resigned her position because she was told "you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight." 

But Sherrod was not on the Glenn Beck show that night.  Sherrod resigned before Beck talked about her story the next day.

On Friday at the KMBZ Business Forum in Kansas City, MO Beck described a  biblical verse, "Put on the full armor of God ..."  Ephesians 6:11-13, on a chalk board and explained its connection to the Sherrod story:

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On Thursday Attorney General Steve Six announced his candidacy for his first statewide election.

Six's response about the Arizona bill to curb illegal immigration:

"We've focused on what's going on here in Kansas. With all the things we're working on, [we] don't have a lot of time to read laws that have come out in other states."

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State Rep. Geralidine Flaharty talks about Lexie's Law before the vote in the Kansas House.

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"We have failed in our fiduciary responsibility to be good stewards of the people’s money  ...  I am disheartened for Kansas because we have slowed the economic recovery which is so desperately needed. "

State Senator Karin Brownee (R, Olathe) read an "official protest" to the budget bill during the brief Senate session on Tuesday morning, May 11, 2010.

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With nearly a third of the population of Kansas living near the border with Missouri, a higher sales tax in Kansas could cause unintended consequences since taxes in Missouri are cheaper in general.

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