The major group which tracks extremist hate groups has recently decided that Kansas GOP Chairman Kris Kobach's former employer and major campaign contributor, FAIR, should be classified as a hate group.

The founder, chief ideologue and long-time funder of FAIR is a racist. Key staff members have ties to white supremacist groups, some are members, and some have spoken at hate group functions. FAIR has accepted more than $1 million from a racist foundation devoted to studies of race and IQ, and to eugenics - the pseudo-science of breeding a better human race that was utterly discredited by the Nazi euthanasia program. It spreads racist conspiracy theories...

Much of this has been known for years. But last February, underlining the way that FAIR does business, its leaders met with the leaders of Vlaams Belang - a hastily renamed Belgian party that under a prior appellation, Vlaams Blok, was officially banned by the Belgian Supreme Court as a racist and xenophobic group. It was, for some, a final straw - the Rubicon of hate, as it were. When FAIR officials met with Vlaams Belang leaders to seek their "advice" on immigration, we decided to take another look at FAIR. When our work was done, it was obvious that FAIR qualified as a hate group. Early next year, when the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual hate group list is published, FAIR will be on the list.

The SPLC issued an "Intelligence Report" that details the ties between FAIR and bigotry and white supremacy. This puts FAIR on the same list with Neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalists and Skinheads. Will Kris Kobach finally own up and condemn this hate-filled group?

Tom Tancredo, the fringe "anti-immigration" presidential candidate from Colorado has decided to throw all of his marbles into his long-shot bid for the White House.

"It's the fact that I really believe I have done all I can do in the House, especially about the issue about which I care greatly (immigration)," Tancredo said in a phone interview from a motel in Iowa.

The decision is not a surprise, considering Tancredo's repeated complaints that his uphill presidential run was taking a heavy toll on him and his family.

But it is sure to set off a mad succession scramble in his solidly conservative, suburban Denver district, where he repeatedly won re-election despite being a magnet for controversy.

I'm gonna go ahead and offer up Kansas GOP Chairman Kris Kobach to replace the always controversial Tancredo. The two are ideological brothers. Tancredo was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Kris' failed bid to unseat Dennis Moore. Tom rode his one trick "anti-immigration" pony to Congress. Wouldn't we all like to see Kris ride that same pony off into the Kansas sunset?

No surprise that KS GOP Chairman Kris Kobach would miss the mark on an email like the one the folks at Blue Tide Rising received yesterday.

Could Kris Kobach actually be so politically tone-deaf to think it's appropriate to compare female office-holders to drunken undergraduates ala "Girls Gone Wild?" Apparently so.

Moreover, Kris Kobach is crassly playing to every man who thinks to himself "My wife spends to much of our (or, worse, "my") money on her shopping sprees." Memo to Kobach, Archie Bunker isn't a real voter.

If you think this isn't about gender then ask yourself, why is Kris Kobach giving male Democratic leaders a pass? Why aren't Dennis Moore, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid, Anthony Hensley, and Dennis McKinney also targets of Kris Kobach's sexist "Spending Spree" attacks?

Really no surprise there, what we find audacious is that the KSGOP would attack Democrats for out of control spending.

Perhaps Mr. Kobach has forgotten that the last President to balance the budget was President Clinton.

Or how Kathleen Sebelius saved taxpayers over $1 billion during her first term by running the Kansas government more efficiently.

Or the fact that Congresswoman Boyda voted against giving Members of Congress a raise...while Todd Tiahrt was for it.

Not to mention that Nancy Pelosi re-instituted Pay As You Go legislation that the Republicans did away with.

If anyone needs a lesson in fiscal responsibility, it's the male leadership of the Republican Party who have done nothing but sink this country into endless debt.

As the furor over the Kansas Republican Party’s “Loyalty Committee” grows, we have to wonder what they were thinking. We anticipate they thought of themselves like this… …when most Kansans just see them like this… ..or worse: