Opinion Line (May 3)

Instead of sending in police in riot gear, I propose we simply send in mothers to get the job done.

The mother who confronted and struck her son in the head and face at the Baltimore protest – that was assault.

We have people crossing our southern border to enter the land of opportunity. Yet people in Baltimore are rioting due to a lack of opportunity. Where have we gone wrong?

I challenge those of you who believe that “reverse racism” is a real problem: Show me a list of unarmed white men killed by black cops.

How is your government supposed to keep track of you if your tattooed skin won’t allow your Apple Watch to work properly?

Here’s my advice for this year’s graduates: Meditate one-half hour per day. If you’re a Republican, do it for an hour.

If Democrats do not lean to the communist side, why do all admitted socialist candidates run under the Democrat label?

Her incompetence cost us four lives in Benghazi. How many more lives do you want her to cost us? You know who she is.

If the Kansas Legislature reducing school funding is “just less of an increase,” then reinstating some of the previous tax rates is “just less of a tax cut.”

Better hurry and cash your state refund check before Brownback gets any more brilliant ideas.

If the 330,000 businesses that have paid no income tax since 2013 each paid $100 a month, we’d make a pretty good dent in the shortfall. No free rides, period. Everyone needs to help.

There is a lawyer who advertises his bankruptcy practice each noon on local TV. I wonder if the state has his number on file.

Need to increase state revenue? Add a nickel tax to every can or bottle of nonalcoholic beverage. Use the same mechanism as used for alcohol tax.

Don’t increase the taxes we already pay. Legalize marijuana and let people who smoke pot happily pay the sales tax. It won’t completely fix the shortfall, but with the added revenue and the savings from not having to police and incarcerate people, the budget will be much easier to balance.

All the liberals I know are pro-concealed-carry. They just think it ought to be pot that is allowed to be carried.

What’s wrong with Kansas? The state’s latest example hails from Garden City, where an 11-year-old son was put into state custody because of his mother’s medical use of marijuana. This is incredibly intolerant and immoral extreme rightism.

With the onset of old age, people tend to become thin-skinned, both literally and figuratively.

This story was originally published May 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (May 3)."