I started working on this week's cover story, "The Cure from Kansas," after discovering how much Big Healthcare money was pouring into the campaign fund of Kansas Rep. Brenda Landwehr, a Wichita Republican who heads the House Health and Human Services Committee. Landwehr's committee had proposed a particularly inhumane piece of legislation that made me wonder WTF they were thinking. Landwehr's campaign contributions told me everything I needed to know. What I found out was disturbing enough that
Mary Pilcher CookâGod bless Kansas state Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook of Shawnee, who is leading the effort to secure a Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment. Cook, who like others on the far right is afraid of a government takeover of everything, is already worried about Kansas losing its sovereignty. "If you're like me, you are deeply concerned about the direction our country is headed, and you want to know the individuals who are at work, putting hard effort into seeing that our liberty is protect
