Opinion Line Extra (March 5)

Strictly speaking, government is not a business, does not run like a business, and does not require businessmen to run it. I’m not sure it even needs men. I voted for Jennifer Winn for mayor.

I got mailings No. 9 and 10 from Sam Williams four days before the primary – a lot of words that said nothing. Somehow that doesn’t seem like a wise use of funds.

How is it that rich people buy elections? Recent history is replete with examples of rich people running for office, spending millions of their own dollars, then crashing at the polls.

President Obama’s proposed 10-year contract with Iran: “If you want your nukes, you can have your nukes.”

Apparently, Sen. James “Snowball” Inhofe has “weather” and “climate confused. Most people know they are two different things. Unbelievably, he is also the Republican chairman of the Senate’s Environment Committee.

Whenever Congress refuses to do its job and fund any agency, furloughing some employees and forcing others to work without pay, congressmen should be required to go without pay. Of course for the people in Congress who are millionaires, this wouldn’t be much of an incentive.

I wish I had a dime for every time a preacher preached against Obama. We can both buy our way into heaven.

What the foaming-at-the-mouth superpatriotic Obama haters don’t grasp is that nationalism has been the scourge of planet Earth since humans first evolved. All the countless wars and conflicts have proved is that men are full of fear and greed and enjoy killing one another.

I wonder how many other countries have a political party declaring that the elected leader of their nation “doesn’t love” his country or his people. Sounds pretty ignorant, doesn’t it?

What people say Brownback is doing to our state is small potatoes compared with what Obama is doing to America.

I don’t want my grandkids around individuals who are so scared the individuals feel they have to carry a gun for protection.

Thank you, Bill Warren, for opposing the “no training or background check” gun bill by talking about money – something our legislators care about more than they care about people’s lives. Maybe they will actually listen to you.

If Bill Warren’s insurance company raises his rates for abiding by the law, I would say it is time to get a new insurance provider.

Wow. It gets a little cold, there’s a light dusting of snow, and everything shuts down. I’ve got to write home to Mom about this.

For the person who can’t find a full-service gasoline station while gas prices are low: There’s one at the intersection of Central and Woodlawn, but it’s only open on weekdays.

This story was originally published March 4, 2015 at 6:01 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (March 5)."