Opinion Line (May 9)

If Hillary Clinton is not comfortable fielding questions from voters or the media, I doubt she would be comfortable answering questions from foreign leaders.

It seems we have six of the dwarfs running against Snow White, and almost 20 more months of name-calling and mudslinging to go.

Am I the only one who sees a connection between the media’s smearing of Tom Brady with accusations regarding “probable” knowledge of deflated footballs and recent accusations that he snubbed Obama by not appearing at the White House? Is this payback time?

Contributors to the Opinion page regularly denounce the Iraq War as conceived in deceit and unnecessary. How does that differ from Obama’s unnecessary Libyan campaign against a toothless leader, which left a failed state run by terrorists?

I think it is terrible the way so-called Christians act toward people of a different religion, all in the name of “freedom of speech.”

It really rubs me the wrong way when a citizen has to pay $40 to hear a federal official speak. How about a report on what FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says to the Wichita Aero Club, for the benefit of those who cannot afford the admission?

If Sam Brownback was the captain of the Titanic, not only would he hit the iceberg, he’d back up and ram it again.

Regarding “The roots of inequality reflect our policy choices” (May 7 Opinion): Brownback and supporters have dumped inequality all over Kansas citizens, and now we are going to be billed for a sun that only shines on businesses.

Wow – to fill the giant hole in the budget, they call upon the poor. Sales tax is the most regressive tax ever invented. It will hurt the poor while the rich will hardly notice. I keep waiting to see the word “impeach” in the paper, but to no avail.

If we’re going to jack up the sales tax again, could we at least exempt food and prescription medicines, and put a $1,000 cap on sales tax for auto purchases?

The governor and his Legislature, the secretary of state and even the attorney general have done so much to put Kansas decades into the past century. It is shameful. How many disenfranchised voters and millions in the red will it take to wake Kansas?

Statistics show that Catholic schools can successfully educate each student for about $3,500 a year. Public schools use $13,000 per student. Don’t begin to tell me that public schools need more money.

Kansas Republican Party director Clay Barker was one step away from saying, “Jane, you ignorant slut.”

All these commercials for “addictions counseling” are driving me to drink.

This story was originally published May 8, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (May 9)."