Opinion Line (Sept. 16)

YouTube beheadings are bait, and our elected officials from both parties will happily swallow the hook. War is not the answer.

Our president just slays me. He has no Middle East strategy whatsoever. He makes some ridiculous speech, waits to see the reaction to it, then adjusts his next speech accordingly.

How much of the $500 million more Obama wants is, through creative accounting, going to prop up Obamacare and the vote-buying Democrat handouts?

Why is it that Gov. Sam Brownback’s political commercials have all white people in them? I think I saw one person of color in the very far-right corner of one such ad, and only for a few micro-seconds.

If the schools tightened up on the waste, they would not be crying about lost funding. When I worked at a school, I saw a new teacher order new books and throw usable old books away. When this teacher moved the next year, a new teacher did the same thing.

USD 259 spends $29 million a year on busing, so let’s save that money by closing all the elite magnet schools, reopening closed neighborhood schools and making the parents responsible for getting their children to school.

Kris Kobach shouldn’t be on anyone’s re-election committee. He should recuse himself in the Chad Taylor ballot dispute. But it is obvious he has no moral compass at all.

What kind of a loser decides to caucus with whichever party has the majority? That’s called, “I have no principles at all.” That would be Greg Orman.

If a cop tells you to stop, or drop the weapon, and you refuse to, his life is in danger and he has every right to shoot you. Don’t start running, and do what the cops say, and you’ll never have to worry about them shooting you.

The wage protesters got me fed up. You want $15 an hour? Go to school, invest in yourself, and learn a trade. But demanding $15 an hour for a job meant for teenagers is wrong – unless, of course, you are in a socialist country. Quit bullying your way through life.

If the colleges would get back to having student athletes, there wouldn’t be so many thugs in the NFL.

How does it happen that an NFL player hits his girlfriend, and the media tell us the NFL commissioner should be fired? Is this a matter of race?

This story was originally published September 15, 2014 at 7:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Sept. 16)."