Opinion Line (Feb. 23)

Give me your homophobic, your wealthy, your gun manufacturers. Welcome to Brownbackistan.

Whine all you want to. Gov. Sam Brownback was given a mandate, and he’s running with it. Elections have consequences.

I’ll bet most lawyers in Kansas are Republicans. But they don’t represent the extreme conservative wing of the party, so Brownback wants to change the procedure for picking Supreme Court justices. Keep the three branches of state government separate. Don’t let Brownback take over the judiciary.

Brownback cut taxes, saying that businesses would flock to Kansas. That might have worked if he wasn’t throwing women, public services and public schools under the bus at the same time. Who is going to relocate to a place with underfunded schools and crumbling infrastructure?

The Brownback plan is simple: silence the critics any way they can.

“More money sloshing around the economy from tax cuts” does not create jobs. An increased demand for goods or services creates jobs. It’s fundamental economics.

If Obama had been president when Sept. 11 happened, he would have declared it workplace violence and then gone golfing that afternoon.

With Obama refusing to say “extremist Islamist,” he is allowing all of Islam to take the blame for the actions in the Middle East. The whole world knows it’s the extremists causing the problem. Wake up, Obama, and say it like it is.

Bush didn’t admit it because of political correctness. Obama can’t admit it because he’s in denial. We are fighting an ideological and religious war against Islamic fundamentalists. The aggressors have thus defined this conflict.

Under George W. Bush we had a disastrous, unjustified 10-year war and the worst economy since the Great Depression, with very little criticism. However, President Obama receives severe criticism almost daily for things that are nothing compared with Bush’s disasters. I don’t understand.

Rudy Giuliani doesn’t love America like I do.

No whining about deflated balls. No comfort pats on the behind. No glorification sitting on a bench. Just the toughest men on Earth up against a raging 2,000-pound beast set on bucking them off and then killing them with horns and hooves. Bull riding. Any questions?

Why am I only asked to serve on a jury when I’m registered as a Republican?

This story was originally published February 22, 2015 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Feb. 23)."