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I’m glad President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. Why don’t they build a refinery in Montana instead? Only 3 percent of the water on Earth is fresh. Why would we risk polluting that finite resource by pumping filthy tar-sand oil over it? If we tried a little harder we could live without oil. We cannot live without water.
Hey, environmental cry-wolfers: The Keystone XL oil will go through a pipe. “Pipe-line.” Get it? You make it sound like people will carelessly spill it everywhere, destroying all life as we know it. Use some common sense.
Why do the media only beseech Republicans to compromise? Who are the great Democrat compromisers in Topeka and Washington, D.C.? Is Nancy Pelosi a compromiser? How about Harry Reid? Bob Dole and John McCain compromised their principles and didn’t become president.
The following need to meet at the Capitol steps in Topeka: Gov. Sam Brownback, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, and out-of-staters Rick Perry and Arthur Laffer. House Speaker Mike O’Neal wants to try out his latest comedy routine and Bible interpretation.
Come on now – everyone laughed at House Speaker Mike O’Neal’s forwarded e-mail comparing Michelle Obama to the Grinch. It really did look like her. Free speech, baby. And if some teenager can disrespect the governor, O’Neal has the same right. No apology was necessary.
Oh, so that’s how things are now: Soon we may have a checkoff on our income-tax return to donate to the arts in Kansas. Next we’ll have a checkoff for fire protection, and then for police cars, and then for schoolteachers.…
If those states listed by Arthur Laffer are doing better than taxed states, how is it that Kansas has a better employment rate than the majority of those states, including Texas?
Raise the taxes on the poor? Really? Why don’t you kick my dog while you’re at it?
So the party that controls the state boasts of less government and regulations, but it does not repeal the seat-belt regulation. Double standard? Please leave me alone, too.
USD 259 going back on its promise of a new comprehensive high school to relieve overcrowding is just like Boeing breaking its promise to build the tanker in Wichita.
The parents objecting to the possibility of their local school being closed are interested only in whether their children will be going to that school, rather than what would be beneficial to the majority of students and taxpayers long term. Once their child is no longer going to that school, you’ll never hear from them again.
Many problems can be avoided by building schools for Wichita children in Wichita. Let Bel Aire build and pay for its own schools in Bel Aire. Is it any wonder Wichita’s educational budget is broken? And stop trying to fund every social need that arises with the education budget.
