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I don't like the Phelpses' tactics or opinions, but they are guaranteed their rights because of the Constitution, even when others might disagree with their view of the world.
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My wife and I both have multiple sclerosis. If it weren't for my employer's group insurance policy, we would not have any health insurance. No health insurance company would even give us a second look. We need a public option in the health care bill in Congress.
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With the low approval rating of the Republicans in Congress, should they all be so willing to continue to be obstructionists? It's time for a third party, America.
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To all Americans who continue to support Israel's confiscation of Palestinian lands: Get packing, because the American Indians are coming home.
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There was a large article about Bon Jovi in Friday's Eagle. Tyler Perry had a play at Century II to a sold-out audience Thursday night, and not one word in the newspaper. Bon Jovi is not news to everyone. Equal opportunity reporting.
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I have a simple solution for avoiding a higher tax on water: Use more.
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To smokers who just want to be left alone: You will be left alone when you stay in your putrid, carcinogenic home and do not subject the rest of us to the stench and ill effects of your self-hating addiction.
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Smokers aren't mad because we can't smoke anywhere we'd like. We're mad because property owners had previously given permission for us to do so. Then the "do-good" prohibitionists came along and told the property owners what they could do in their own buildings.
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Perhaps our Wichita mayor should spend more time on city business instead of attending all those junkets and barbecue functions.
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Jessica Simpson says she does not brush her teeth. She brought that up just as I was starting to feel sorry for her. Now it is just her old boyfriends who have my sympathy.
