Opinion Line Extra (March 4)

Maintain your speed with that of the flow of traffic. It is the law. If you are the only self-righteous putz driving the “speed limit,” it is you who is endangering yourself and everyone around you.

Marshawn Lynch told a Turkish TV station that he was expecting to get the ball on the last play of the Super Bowl. Yes, Marshawn, you and a billion other people had the same thought. Just not the one person making the call.

How can a person trust another person, let alone a person in the government that wants to make illegal drugs legal? We may as well say, “Let’s make rape legal. Let’s make molestation legal.” Really, people?

Well, what do you know – good news about education, with the policy of credits transferred put in place by far-thinking educators (“Kansas tops college completion ranking,” March 2 Eagle). See? Good things can happen in education when folks in Topeka stand back and let the experts do their job.

You don’t hear Colorado crying about being broke. Legalize marijuana in Kansas.

Yes, Sam Brownback and Scott Walker are cut from the same cloth. And the sad fact is that there are already far too many of their ilk currently in positions of influence and power across this country. Heaven help us.

Scott Walker for president? Anyone who compares union workers to ISIS deserves to be president. Not.

The last midterm election every other sentence out of the mouth of Republicans running for office was about repealing Obamacare. But now that they are in office, it seems to be forgotten. Hmm.

Congress: Kicking the can down the road will result in getting your can kicked down the road.

President Obama was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School. How is that working for us? Bring on some common sense.

I can see how liberals might think the CPAC podium speeches are funny. They don’t want their candidates to love America, but rather they want their candidates to ruin it.

There hasn’t been this much income disparity since the medieval times of royalty and peasants. I thought democracy was supposed to prevent this from happening again. But now I remember – the peasants have to vote, and the peasants have to vote intelligently. You royals best keep the peasants uneducated.

The White House admits government will soon be spending more on interest for our national debt than for the entire defense budget, the result of our spend-and-tax policies over the last six years. Paying interest on government borrowing is killing us.

Where’s global warming when we need it?

Americans like to complain a lot, which is why too many of us are handed things on a silver plate.

This story was originally published March 3, 2015 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (March 4)."