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I just got done watching "The man in the grey flannel suit" probably for the tenth time. This movie depicts the America that I remember and want back.

Well, I want to start by thanking a few folks who've joined us today. We've got the mayor of Osawatomie, Phil Dudley is here. We have your superintendent Gary French in the house. And we have the principal of Osawatomie High, Doug Chisam. And I have brought your former governor, who is doing now an outstanding job as secretary of health and human services – Kathleen Sebelius is in the house. We love Kathleen. Well, it is great to be back in the state of Tex – [laughter] – state of Kansas. I was giving Bill Self a hard time, he was here a while back. As many of you know, I have roots here. I'm sure you're all familiar with the Obamas of Osawatomie. Actually, I like to say that I got my name from my father, but I got my accent – and my values – from my mother. She was born in Wichita. Her mother grew up in Augusta. Her father was from El Dorado. So my Kansas roots run deep. My grandparents served during World War II. He was a soldier in Patton's army; she...

Sometimes it pays to be wary of your friends!   As more people turn to Facebook and Twitter for much of their online communicating, Internet scammers and spammers are trying to cash in by hijacking the names and images of users’ “friends’’ and “followers.’’ They use the stolen identities to place fake come-ons and shady pitches alongside all the funny pictures and snide remarks posted by people legitimately granted access to online accounts. The goal is to trick users into buying products, volunteering credit card numbers and other personal information, or unknowingly installing malicious software that can damage computers. Too often, the tactics work, according to computer security specialists, in part because of our faith in people we know. “When someone posts a link, they say, ‘Oh, that’s from my friend, I trust that link,’ ’’ said Maxim Weinstein, executive director of StopBadware Inc., a Cambridge nonprofit that helps Internet users guard against computer viruses and spyware. ...

The late Stanley Ann Dunham has been described by her son President Barack Obama as a shy and small-town Caucasian from Kansas, an idealist who became a struggling single mother, notes Janny Scott, on leave from The to write "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." An article to appear in this coming Sunday's Magazine adapted from Scott's book and appearing on the Times' Web site, characterized the view from the other side of the political spectrum: "… In the fevered imaginings of supermarket tabloids and the Internet, she is the atheist, the Marxist, the flower child, the mother who abandoned her son or duped the newspapers of Hawaii into printing a birth announcement of her Kenyan-born baby, on the off chance that he might want to be president someday."

In the days of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, this Presidential Click office in Tivoli Gardens was hallowed territory. Today, it will be transformed into a police post, a signal that Coke's empire has crumbled and that the State is in full control of the community. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer THE PROMISE of a new day dawns in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, with today's scheduled opening of a police post in the community that has been devoid of consistent police presence for most of its existence. In an ironic twist of fate, the police post is being set up in the Presidential Click office - the headquarters of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the community kingpin-turned-fugitive. Coke fled the community over which he ruled with an iron fist after the police attempted to arrest him last week. The police incursion led to a gunfight between gunmen loyal to Coke and members of the security ...