Opinion Line (May 16)

The two-party system is destroying the personal freedom this country was created to preserve. Liberals demand to protect you from yourself by telling you what to do, conservatives by telling you what not to. We need some sensible leadership.

Being the smartest Bush is like being the tallest Munchkin.

Forget all of her scandals for now. Hillary Clinton will be 69 if elected as president. Considering her history of bad health, will she have the physical stamina to devote 14 to 16 hours per day to the job?

Our next president must find an alternative to Obama’s dangerously weak nuclear surrender to Iran. Hillary will not. That unavoidable job falls to her opposition.

If you’re for Hillary, you are against every U.S. veteran.

Could the Democrats’ attempt at dividing men and women be part of their long-term goals and just a precursor for Shariah law here in the USA?

The problem with homosexual marriage is that it celebrates sodomy. The problem with abortion is that it kills a human being. No one wants to address the real problems.

You want to end the marijuana problem at the Kansas-Colorado border? It’s simple. Legalize marijuana. The majority of Kansans want it anyway.

The current trend of police violence against black people is nothing new. It is just that everyone has cameras now to take pictures when the police do awful things. And just so you know – I am an 80-year-old white woman.

Our education system is a Ponzi scheme used to launder money into the Democratic Party.

My son is never moving back to Kansas. He says Kansans have no idea what a laughingstock Kansas has become to the residents of the enlightened regions of our nation. I miss him, but I understand completely.

Why do we need a state Legislature? It just does what King Brownback wants.

On whether Kansans “deserve better” than the governor and his allies: No, they don’t deserve better, because they voted him in, either through ignorance of the facts or because they simply didn’t vote at all.

Living on welfare is not a preferred choice. Try it. The stipend goes back into the economy, and food supplement comes from charities. That’s not to be confused with corporate welfare, where the money goes to stockholders and CEOs with no restrictions.

No, that’s OK, Mayor Jeff Longwell. Mother Nature took care of sweeping the streets for you. The only thing you have to worry about now is cleaning the storm drains and rivers of everything that washed down into them.

More than 8,000 dead in Nepal, and Americans are more concerned with the PSI in a football.

This story was originally published May 15, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (May 16)."