Opinion Line (June 8)

Today’s tea party shares no commonality with the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party protested taxation without representation. Today’s tea party is all about representation without taxation.

The Republicans won’t need a convention to decide their next presidential candidate. Their candidate will be the one who can keep his mouth shut.

How do the Democrats, who say government is and should be all things to all people, explain the TSA’s failure to detect 95 percent of the fake guns and explosives that passed through in a test?

If my group missed something 67 times out of 70, as the TSA did, I would be fired, not reassigned. That’s the government for you.

Why did Rand Paul stand firm on the Patriot Act vote? It’s because libertarians never compromise on anything. And there are enough of these radicals in the U.S. Congress and the Kansas Legislature to make life miserable for all of us.

What is wrong with the Kansas Legislature? So many old, white males keep getting re-elected. We need new faces and new ideas.

I want the Legislature to give me one more straight-ticket voting option: I want the ability, with one selection, to vote against all gubernatorial, secretary of state, and legislative incumbents.

I don’t want to go to college in Kansas, because the other students soon will be able to carry concealed guns.

What is the vision of public education? Is it to provide public education for all preschool children and a host of services? The busing and the supervision for restroom, nap time, playtime and lunchtime? Families are the best environment for preparing little children for future educational endeavors.

Obviously, local governments’ economic development efforts aren’t working when 12-month job growth was only 0.1 percent. It’s time to end giveaways to business. The argument “imagine job growth without giveaways” doesn’t cut it anymore.

Wichita claiming to be the Air Capital of the World is as relevant as Detroit clinging to “Motor City” and Pittsburgh to “Steel City.”

If you get angry with tailgaters, they are easy to eliminate. All you have to do is quit pulling out right in front of people and then going 10 mph less than they were going.

When you announce your retirement and have parties, you should retire. If you keep doing what you do after “retirement,” your friends feel duped.

This story was originally published June 7, 2015 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (June 8)."