Opinion Line (July 1)

Instead of spending millions of dollars on expanding streets in Wichita, spend it on a mass transit bus system with quality service and nearly free rides. Few people ride bikes to work; stop wasting money on bike paths. Repair the streets we have.

If our local city government leaders would spend taxpayer money wisely, there would not be a need for more of it. For example: Switch to smaller, natural-gas buses. Charge higher fares. For 40 years, the city buses have been running around town empty or almost empty.

If Wichita Transit were an essential service, six riders at most on a full-size bus would be the exception rather than the rule.

I have been in and out of our beautiful new airport. Now if we could get our luggage back in less than 40 minutes.

If a dog came onto my property and was threatening me or my family, I wouldn’t have a Louisville Slugger in my hand. I would have a 12-gauge A5 Browning autoloader.

That anyone should have to be a prisoner in his own home because some idiot lets a dangerous dog run loose is ridiculous. When is Wichita going to wake up and ban pit bulls from the city limits?

Is The Eagle trying to get pit bulls banned? In the Monday photo of the guy with a baseball bat and the pit bull, only the guy looks aggressive. Perhaps the dog’s demeanor changes because of the need to defend himself.

A dog near us barks all of the time when the family is not home. They have a doggie door. Another one barks when the family is home, as he wants back in. Both families include county employees. Why aren’t bark collars mandatory? We are going doggie crazy.

Where is the good government that progressives are willing to pay for? Is it little Kansas, with its very high cost of government per capita? Maybe it’s the feds shipping live anthrax around or not finding weapons in carry-on luggage.

Where does the Constitution say that your faith gives you the right to tell me what to do? My strongly held belief is that all religions are collections of myths and misunderstandings used to explain why some people can tell other people what to do.

Hey, Christians, you still have one privilege left: one vote per adult. Pay very close attention to every candidate for public office, because your one vote may affect every Christian in this country – possibly to the point you no longer have even that one vote in the future.

Kris Kobach for president.

This story was originally published June 30, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (July 1)."