Opinion Line (Sept. 22)

Kris Kobach is an intelligent man. Surely he could find a way to at least appear to be nonpartisan.

One of the Kansas pundits has said that if both Sam Brownback and Kris Kobach win this year, look for Gov. Kobach in four years. Call me a wimp, but that scares me a lot more than a gang of fundamentalists halfway around the world.

It seems Kobach is a closet drama queen.

It’s refreshing to see a candidate who is willing to work with both Democrats and Republicans, and who has shown reason and common sense while analyzing complex issues. Congress needs Greg Orman.

Orman says he will caucus with whichever party is in control of the Senate. Sounds like a rational and reasonable man to me. That’s something that has been seriously lacking in government for too long.

I wouldn’t believe Greg Orman if his tongue came notarized.

Kansas voters must understand that Greg Orman was a Democrat and Paul Davis is a Democrat.

Don’t be fooled by Gov. Sam Brownback’s “road map” for Kansas education. There is no money to do what he says he will do, and he knows it. Our state is hemorrhaging money. Brownback is writing checks he can’t cash.

In a campaign ad, the governor boasts that “the values and the character” his mom and dad gave him back on the farm “is just amazing.” Let’s hope his parents hold higher values – and use better grammar – than their son.

Whether or not I support Brownback, I could never vote for his opponent based solely on his grammatical errors in his ads. It’s not too late for him and his staff to further their own educations, starting with an English review of the lower grades.

Kansas public schools claim they are underfunded even though they take in billions of dollars with increases nearly every year. There was a day before the union got involved that education employees were not there to get rich. They were there because they truly wanted to be public servants.

The naivete of people who still support President Obama is astounding.

If every news network were a food category, you’d need to consume from every category to be nutritionally balanced. So if you’re consuming from only one network, you are in essence starving yourself, causing intellectual malnourishment.

This story was originally published September 21, 2014 at 7:06 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Sept. 22)."