Great study out about what immigrants have to know for a test as part of their naturalization process (click here to see more about it). And some of the questions seem pretty simple. Like: What's the function of the judicial branch? (To...

it has been a busy news week with big stories across the board. basketball has been one of them, what with the ncaa tournament drawn on sunday and getting underway in earnest today. we've talked about it quite a bit on the show. check out our...

it's one of those weekends where you just can't lose...and i'm just talking downtown. the big 12 tournament is on at sprint center with a really good chance that ku and mu will square off saturday night for the championship (note this was...

we had one of the those great black and white topics this morning on kansas city's morning news -- y'know, a topic with no gray area: if you're a guy and a male birth control pill were available, would you take it? (the subject comes up...

normally when i sit down to write a blog post, i write about something behind the scenes on the show, or about a guest or a particular topic from the day. but once a year, i pack a whole bunch of blog posts into just a few days and the subject has...

ellen and i have often said that alzheimer's is one of those diseases that if you haven't already been touched by it, you will be. i couldn't help but be touched by the revelation that former congressman dennis moore was, mid-year last year,...

(exasperated): i have tried three times this morning to write a blog post about "murses." no, it's not a killer disease that you catch when you're in the hospital trying to recover from some other killer disease. (i start off with the cry...

when you wake up at a crazy time of day and go to work at an equally insane hour, your eating habits get knocked totally outta whack. you might think that a group of people with similar schedule might adhere to similar eating times and trends. ...

...are medical stories. New research is always popping up. Clinical trials are constantly revealing new insights, new cures, new hope. This morning, the story was about a tracheal transplant -- not from another human -- made in the lab. But...

I becoming more and more convinced that the American people are an amazingly uninformed lot. And to an extent, I suspect, it's understandable. For two reasons. Number one: we are so self-absorbed and family-absorbed these days than perhaps ever...

...as my friend mandy once said, "i'm the child of a lawyer so that pretty much makes me one...at least in my own mind." so ellen and i are gettin' ready for the show this morning (she eating a 100 calorie snack, i with my chicken and salad),...

ellen and i were talking this morning on the show about the thing most overheard at our wedding reception a couple of weeks back (no, not ellen and me -- she's married to kevin. i'm married to a lovely lady named stephanie. she and i had the reception,...