Opinion Line (Jan. 30)

Hallelujah. Sam Brownback is confirmed as Ambassador-at-large for international religous freedom. Don’t let the door hit you in the back on the way out. Now he can pursue defending cake shops who refuse service to gays.

With a less than ringing endorsement, the U.S. Senate (a tie vote, broken by Pence) allowed Sam Brownback to flee the ruins he made of Kansas government.

I enjoy alcohol as much as the next guy, but damn, 6 in the morning? Nobody who goes to a restaurant for breakfast needs a drink at that hour except hard-core alcoholics. Lawmakers should not pass this bill.

Evangelical Christians: In your support of morally bankrupt Donald Trump, you have jettisoned your so-called family values and surrendered whatever moral authority you have. You have no standing to tell anyone what to believe or how to live.

I bet all you apologists for the shooting of the unarmed and completely innocent man by overzealous police would be singing a different tune if that had been your loved one killed for no reason.

The judge in the Larry Nassar trial has handed the defense numerous points for appeal.

The environment in the Opinion Line is becoming toxic again. A number of participants don’t believe that people have a right to an opinion if that opinion is different than theirs, and that personal attacks are an appropriate response.

All of the demeaning terms hurled around by liberals, such as “racist,” “misogynist,” “redneck,” “deplorable,” or “teabagger” are supposedly accurate and applicable. “Socialism,” on the other hand, is an ill-defined bugaboo of the paranoid and ignorant.

The first two years of college should be free.

“The dog ate my homework” is the excuse the FBI is using to claim they can’t find five months of Peter Strzok-Lisa Page text messages. As long as Andrew McCabe is at the FBI, the FBI will be corrupt.

Climate change is threatening my genetic near immortality plan of being buried at high altitude in permafrost.

This story was originally published January 30, 2018 at 9:35 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (Jan. 30)."