Opinion Line Extra (May 6)

Three weeks after inauguration and some of Mayor Jeff Longwell’s campaign signs are still not picked up. I hope that city employees aren’t doing the job for him.

I have the perfect name for the IRS building that county officials purchased for $5 million. Let’s call it the “Furley Building” in honor of the past irresponsible purchase of the never-to-be-used $4 million Furley landfill site.

The irony of the situation. WSU’s radio station, KMUW, partners with an organization to bring more trees to Wichita. At the other end of the campus, WSU is planning to remove dozens of trees from the Braeburn Golf Course as it starts work on the Innovation Campus.

For the hard left, academe, the media, unions, Democrat lawmakers and The Eagle, the new standard for disagreement is to demean, ridicule, destroy, harm. “If you don’t think as I do, I’ll shout you down, sanction you or worse. You who don’t feel the way I do have no rights.”

A lot of the protesting, better known and described as rioting, would stop if Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were sitting in a prison cell for inciting rioting. Of course that’s not going to happen with Obama taking up space in the White House.

If the abortion bill is so important to Sam Brownback that he takes a road tour to re-sign it to speak to his only devoted patrons, what is the message to those Kansans wondering when he will attack the issue of a failed tax policy with the same intensity?

Our governor vetoes a bill that Uber disliked and the next week his former campaign manager goes to work for Uber as a lobbyist, and we are supposed to think that is a lucky coincidence. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our governor was as lucky when it comes to financial planning?

All this talk about our Kansas economy is making me uber crazy.

The Kansas attorney general says fantasy sports leagues are games of skill – not chance – and therefore not a violation of the state’s constitution. That means that the Legislature’s games of fantasy finance do violate the state’s constitution, because they are games of chance without one bit of skill involved.

It is impossible for me to understand anyone who believes it is a legitimate function of government to forcibly take money from me and hand it over to someone to spend at a casino, on tattoos, for cigarettes, for strip clubs, etc.

What kind of country have we become if I can’t tell a homosexual or a Christian that I don’t want to serve them in my own balloon shop?I’ll tell you: definitely not free.

This story was originally published May 5, 2015 at 7:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (May 6)."