To the point: Sharp views on Kansas, Guiliani, Congress, Now and Floyd Landis

THE EVOLUTION OF KANSAS

The seesaw battle over state science standards in Kansas seems tohave tipped back a bit in the direction of sanity. In Tuesday'sprimary elections, moderates who subscribe to the theory of evolutionwon just enough races to guarantee them a slight majority on theschool board after November's general election. That should make itpossible for them to overturn the benighted science standards pushedthrough by conservatives on the board last year in an effort toundercut the theory of evolution.

We'd be inclined to rejoice in this evidence that Kansas may berejoining the modern world were it not for the state's disturbinghabit of backtracking from …