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Newt Gingrich is a real hypocrite. He didn’t mind trashing Bill Clinton for his infidelity. Now that the media are asking questions about his infidelity, he is coming unglued. If he can’t take the heat without throwing a tantrum, he should get out of politics. A word to Gingrich: The women voters in America are listening and watching.
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.
I have no objection to parents not having their school-age children vaccinated if they so desire, as long as their children don’t go to the same school as my grandkids.
Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the bonds of Greece to junk bond status, because Greek politicians are resisting cuts in government spending. If this sounds similar to Washington, it should. Big-spending politicians here do not have a clue.
Now that he has killed the Keystone XL pipeline there can be no doubt: President Obama is out to destroy America intentionally.
Former Boeing employees: There is an advantage with Boeing’s exit. When you submit an application for employment, your resume can no longer be discounted because you might return to Boeing when work picks up. That presumptive hiring policy had been observed for decades.
I was required to show a photo ID the other day to get on an airplane. Can I sue President Obama?
The Republican debates are no fun now that Michele Bachmann is gone. Her never-before-heard versions of American history were hilarious.
I wonder how many people President Obama will have to hire when he starts his government slim-down project?
Airbus doesn’t look so bad after all, does it, Wichita?
Fists and eggs fly over iPhones at an Apple Store in China. When such American-inspired mob mentality spills over in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the war on terror will be won.
The proposal to start charging people 65 years and older for a hunting or fishing license is a real slap in the face of senior citizens. If the state is in such dire need of money, why not simply raise the exemption age to 68 or even 70? That is what is being done in many pension plans in order to receive benefits.
Just so you know, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a registered Republican, and the Republican Party pushed the civil rights legislation through Congress. I’m tired of the Democrats and the media trying to label Republicans as racist. It’s simply not true.
Boeing isn’t leaving town. McDonnell Douglas is leaving town under the Boeing logo. This exodus started with Harry Stonecipher after the merger. The old Boeing wouldn’t be leaving Wichita.
Boeing wages raised the wages for all aircraft workers in town and deserve credit for that. But they also raised property prices, taxes, and the cost of food and clothing, so they deserve the credit for that, too. People leave Kansas because the cost of living is less elsewhere. So goodbye and good riddance to Boeing from the other 99 percent of Wichitans.
Why don’t politicians show up when a business ceases to exist to ceremonially turn off the light switch? Or do they just like to cut the ribbon on a new business?
I’m a disgusted veteran who believes the Marines who urinated on the bodies of suspected Taliban fighters should be dishonorably discharged immediately.
Gov. Sam Brownback and Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer are taking credit for possibly bringing 400 jobs to Bombardier Learjet by 2017 while Boeing will be cutting 2,100 jobs this year and in 2013. That is a net loss of 1,700 jobs.
Local leaders took their eye off the ball, spending efforts on downtown redevelopment rather than expanding and diversifying business and manufacturing.
Wichita’s status as the Air Capital may soon be a distant memory. But, hey, we’ve got a city government that’s very ambitious about working toward hotels and randomly placed art. Maybe all of the laid-off workers will find positions polishing sculptures and cleaning unused presidential suites.
