Opinion Line (March 8)

Let’s go back and put the horse in front of the cart. Rewrite the tax-free small-business bill to read, “Small businesses will become tax-free when they have created new jobs.” Doesn’t that make about 10 times more sense, Legislature?

Dear farmers and landowners: You were warned that big property tax increases would be proposed by this legislative group. No whining now. The election is over.

Ah, Kansas – where you need a driver’s license to vote and a positive number IQ to strap a gun to your leg.

Why is it the people who say we need a license to carry a concealed firearm are the same people who say it’s a humongously big deal to show a driver’s license to vote? If you need a government permission slip, it’s no longer a “right.”

If I said I don’t “believe” in the First Amendment – which guarantees freedom of religion, freedom from government interference in religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble – everyone would say I’m an anti-American nut. Why is the Second Amendment any different?

It’s not a huge jump. I think it’s unlikely, but, you know, I’ve learned to say that with Kris Kobach, never say never. He might stop embarrassing Kansas anytime now.

Instead of moving spring elections to fall, we should move fall elections for statewide offices to spring. That way we could vote on our legislators when their incompetence is fresh in our minds.

Christian conservatives tell me I shouldn’t have more kids than I can afford. Those same folks then also tell me that I really shouldn’t use birth control and that I should never deny my husband. “Not tonight, honey – their logic has given me a headache.”

The coastlines of the continents, islands and other assorted atolls were the same on a National Geographic map from 1922 as on a new map. How can this be possible if, as the climate-change disciples are screaming, the sea levels are rising at record rates?

Israel has Netanyahu. The United States has Obama and Biden – nut and yahoo.

The Koch brothers run a business that employs 60,000 people. Harry Reid can’t even run his exercise equipment. He looks worse than some of Mike Tyson’s opponents.

The Hillary Clinton e-mail fiasco reminds us that a new scandal will erupt every week if she becomes president.

I say Mike Pompeo for our next governor.

A vote for Sam Williams is a vote for the policies of Sam Brownback, aka Sunny Sam. The USS Kansas has a leak worse than the Titanic and he’s had the band (Kansas Legislature) strike up another chorus.

Why are the city and county wanting federal dollars to fund local firefighters? Let’s cut some of the overpaid bureaucrats and use that money to fund firefighters instead of federal monies.

Boy, am I glad I took the kids to Ringling Bros. Circus back in the ’80s. Now I had better get the grandkids there before they retire their elephants, because it will just not be the same without them.

This story was originally published March 7, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (March 8)."