Opinion Line Extra (May 13)

There should be a generic form that people with a basic estate can use for making a will instead of hiring a lawyer.

Westar Energy keeps on increasing our costs for electricity in the name of upgrades and improvements. Is that why we keep on having these power outages on clear, sunny days?

The Sedgwick County Zoo is 1.33 percent of the total county budget. The county should sell naming rights, which should fund 100 percent of their share for years and years.

Surely the evidence of whether tax-free Kansas businesses are adding jobs could be discerned by requiring reporting of employee numbers and total payroll dollars. Seemingly that would have been among basic reporting requirements in the original act.

Maybe we should rename our state Kansassippi, as we race to the bottom rankings for education, income and health care.

Anyone who has the time to bully, harass and threaten a neighbor on a daily basis obviously has no business being a board member of a homeowners’ association.

“Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Jared Loughner are poster cases for why ‘recreational marijuana’ use isn’t a good idea.” And why background screening and licensing should be required for concealed-carry or even open-carry of firearms in public places.

So, Rick Santorum wants to bomb ISIS back to the seventh century. There is the norm for today’s Christians. Somehow I do not think this is what Jesus would do.

If Jesus were on Earth today, he would stay out of politics just as he did in when he was on Earth 2,000 years ago. Read John 6:15. Matthew 21:12 says he cleansed the temple, not the Legislature.

Jesus is alive today, and his dad is making many notes on our behavior down here. Nothing gets by him.

Where are the whiners who complained about the high gas prices and blamed Obama? Do you only give him credit for the things that are wrong? I am sure I’ll hear from you if or when the prices go up again.

A foundation the size of the Clinton Foundation has high-priced, experienced individuals in its organization who do not make “mistakes” in their federal reporting unless the “mistakes” are intentional.

I was just wondering how much money the Clinton Foundation has given to the relief effort in Nepal.

The Clinton Foundation spends millions helping poor people throughout the world. The Kochs spend millions buying Scott Walker. According to the Republicans, the Clintons are evil and the Kochs are great. Go figure.

If Webster’s Dictionary changed the definition of “charity” to “scam, fraud and influence peddling,” everyone would have a better idea of what the Clinton Foundation really is.

This story was originally published May 12, 2015 at 7:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (May 13)."