Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt's misleading defense raises concerns following an audit released by the Kansas Attorney General, concluding that the state is losing more than $20 million a year because its Insurance Department is lax in overseeing one of its programs. The department said the audit is flawed and should be 'discounted nearly in its entirety.' While Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt's office attempts to downplay the severity of the findings revealed in the recent audit of Kansas' Insurance Department, their response raised significant concerns about transparency and accountability within the state's governance.

My husband and I have never bought a home we didn't tinker with. And by 'tinker,' I don't mean a coat of fresh paint and new shelving. I mean the knock out a wall, rip up the flooring and till the backyard for a new garden kind of tinkering. Real doit- yourselfers. This is why when the kitchen cabinet recently fell off the wall -- literally while putting away dishes -- we didn't stress too much. We were planning to remodel the kitchen anyway. I simply set up wire shelving for the dishes that hadn't broken, and then we strolled through Lowe's hand in hand.

Joe Biden. Donald Trump.

TV You will have to forgive a piece that is not at all about politics and the current cultural contretemps of modern American society. Instead, I want to use these words to recommend as forcefully as possible a television show that you should be watching.

Former President Donald Trump’s statement that the attack on Israel by Iran “would not have happened if we were in office,” has drawn derision, including from his former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Dear Annie: I have let myself get involved with a significantly younger guy. To make matters worse, I’m married. In my defense, before I even started talking to this other guy, my husband and I had come to a place in our marriage where we were more like roommates than husband and wife. We didn’t even share the same bedroom (which was his decision). He never showed me affection of any kind. We spoke to each other, but that was it.

Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalization of abortion in 1973 reduced the number of unwanted children, who might have been at higher risk of committing serious crimes. And that explained the sharp drop in the crime rate that started in the early 1990s.

Dear Annie: I’m a mom and have been married for nearly six years. But for the past few years, my husband and I have not been on the same path. We can’t communicate without fighting, bickering, arguing, etc. Our sex life has been nonexistent. And I have tried talking and suggesting that we do more things together. I have even tried losing weight because I thought maybe the problem was that I was no longer attractive. I tried everything that I could think of. And some days, I just lay in a different room, balled up and crying.

This week, the Islamic Republic of Iran -- a radical Shariah theocracy hell-bent on the destruction of Israel and Saudi Arabia, among others fired some 300 drones and missiles at the State of Israel. This is, definitionally, an act of war. Iran claimed that it had attacked Israel in response to Israel’s killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps terror master Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi in Syria. In reality, this was merely the latest escalation by Iran, after decades of using its proxies in the Middle East to attack Americans, Israelis and Western allies.

Donald Trump is the furthest thing from a threat to democracy where abortion is concerned -- and for activists on both sides, that’s alarming. Rights to life or to reproductive choice can’t be true in some places but not others.