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Kansas needs a law that requires all those running for public office to undergo complete psychological evaluations at their expense, with the results to be made public at least six weeks before the election. The voters should know a candidate’s mental fitness to hold public office.
Judging from the incumbent and potential candidates, the next president should be selected by random drawing from phonebooks of everyone eligible in the country. This would be just a likely to get someone really qualified.
Lower tax rates on investment income are designed to create jobs. Mitt Romney made $22 million in 2010. Exactly how many jobs did he create?
Has anyone ever seen Newt Gingrich and Susan Boyle in the same room at the same time?
With the new federal rules for student meals, expect to see a new federal Student Food Police whose mission is to search student backpacks every morning to be sure that the poor children are not harboring candy bars, chips, soft drinks or sack lunches packed at home.
Don’t criticize parents who do not vaccinate their children until you have walked in the shoes of those whose children can’t communicate, can’t take care of themselves, can’t learn or are deaf, blind, ill from chronic diseases or dead – because, these parents believe, of vaccinations.
When was the last time that we cut the number of politicians? Why is it always the workers?
Establishing the moment of conception as the beginning of life gives children their basic right to life. It does not affect their birthday or the legal voting, drinking and driving ages, which are based on the day of birth.
How can our government support religious freedom when laws are being written based on some religions’ believe that life begins at conception? What about religions or individual beliefs that do not accept this as fact? Are those religions or individuals denied their beliefs?
Standard & Poor’s has stripped triple-A ratings from France and Austria, downgraded seven other European countries, and placed Hungary in junk bond status. Europe provides a powerful lesson, but is the United States a smart pupil?
Attention, Wichita drivers: The word “STOP” on the red and white signs is not an acronym for “Suggest That One Pause.”
