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Opinion Line (Aug. 17)

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The Eagle should stop dwelling on low-priced products such as eggs and gasoline, which seem to immediately increase those product prices. Instead, dwell on products that have gone sky high such as medical and health products, or insurances and home appliances.


New license plate backgrounds of Oklahoma and Kansas vehicles should be a seismograph trace.


Free citizens have the right to an uncorrupt and unbiased media, currently not present.


Put a song in your heart and drive down Douglas to see the huge planters filled with flowers maintained by volunteers. It’s not Paris, but it will do until you get there.


Kim Jung Un and Donald Trump are hot heads who are endangering millions with their bombastic talk. Why don’t they have a duel and leave the rest of us out of it?


Remove the animal sculptures downtown before the NCAA Tournament. They make us look like hicks. Big cosmopolitan cities don’t have these. Oh wait, there is a bull sculpture in New York City in front of the Stock Exchange. Those hicks.


Hi, I’m Jim and I lost 30 pounds in five months without Nutrisystem.


Have you ever felt lonely and then checked your inbox for comfort?


If smart phones are so darned smart, why can’t they change the channel on a TV?


Gambling is the surest way to get nothing for something.


Attention CNN, Fox and MSNBC: How about broadcasting some thoughtful and creative solutions to our country’s problems instead of all the divisive rhetoric. Americans need some high-quality, low-tension discussions from all sides in prime time.


Ironic, is it not, that white nationalists demonstrate at a university none of them would be qualified to attend?


Now it’s been said again by a visitor from Pittsburgh (this time) that she didn’t know what a WSU Shocker was, isn’t it time to return to the real name Wichita State Wheat Shockers?

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This story was originally published August 17, 2017 at 4:21 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (Aug. 17)."

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