Opinion Line (March 14)

In Kansas the Republican assault on public schools is alive and well. Soon, if not stopped, they will have accomplished their goal of taking education to private or religious schools. Education is too big of an expense, or so they say.

I get tired of athletes who think God helped them win, countries that think they are God’s chosen people and folks like Brownback who think “divine intervention” put them in office. I would hope God ignores touchdowns, self-serving politicians and people who think they’re more “special” than the rest of humanity.

Those nasty Koch brothers have done it again. Now they’re going to give K-State $2.6 million. What’s wrong with those people? When will the benevolence ever end?

I read that in the U.S. you are four times as likely to drown in your bathtub as to be killed in a terrorist attack. I was going to stay away from shopping malls, but I am going to continue going to the mall and quit taking baths.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a conniver whose only consistency is in what it takes to maintain his own power, and to keep control of the land of millions of non-Jews under Israel’s military occupation. Are Nicolas Sarkozy and Jon Stewart the only ones who can see that?

Obama and the Democrats are certainly impudent when they state the Republicans are traitors for writing a letter when it is they who are the ones holding hands with a country that wants to see them and everyone else in the U.S. dead.

If Hillary Clinton can’t figure out how to access two different e-mail accounts from her smartphone, she’s not smart enough to be president.

I’ll vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death-row inmates alive and comfy.

If it is God’s will that all pregnancies come to term, why are there spontaneous abortions and miscarriages? When religious leaders brought the abortion issue into the political arena and urged that this be made a litmus test for voting, they did far more harm than good.

In 1981, my teenage children and I were eating at Mr. Steak when the waitress said a gentleman had picked up our bill. Just a week before, my husband (their father) had committed suicide, and we were feeling alone. Sir, wherever you are, thank you. You made our day.

Denise Neil’s March 4 article about Doo-Dah Diner waiter Brian Maixner and Ponca City attorney Fred Boettcher was heartwarming, and such a relief from the usual run of killings, politics, etc., that dominate the news daily. Why can’t the media find more of this type of news to report?

This story was originally published March 14, 2015 at 7:00 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (March 14)."