Slaughter in the Heartland

Having been raised by transplanted Kansans, visiting the Wheat State once or twice a year throughout my childhood was a sublime pleasure. Our destination was Grandma's house in Rosalia, a tiny burg a few miles outside of El Dorado (which is pronounced with a long "a," unless you want to sound like you're from California, or Mars, or some equally irrelevant place), and among the persimmon trees and the old sheds out back, I spent many a happy hour.

Perhaps you, like me, still think of Kansas (if at all) as one of those heartland places where the good is still known to be good, and evil is still called evil. It's a nice, tempting image, but quite far from the reality that, among other evidences, one of the nation's most infamous late-term abortionists makes buckets of money at his vile trade in nearby Wichita. And for another, that when a good man tasked with enforcing the law runs afoul of those who have benefitted from the abortionist's PAC money, he ends up the victim of shocking breaches of constitutional powers, cronyism, and corruption, with $200,000 in legal fees to boot.

Please take a few minutes to read this chronicle of the experience of Phill Kline, the state's former attorney general. His approach to opposing abortion was masterful: he merely insisted that the state enforce the laws on its books - a commendable methodology for one tasked with law enforcement, you might think. And the result? Denis Boyles of National Review Online tells it far better than I can.

And while you're reading, consider that many watchers have Governor Kathleen Sibelius on Barak Obama's short list for VP.

H/T Tony Woodlief writing in World on the Web. Don't miss the nice pictures he links of the honorable Governor grinning with the abortionist.