Opinion Line Extra (July 10)

All you people complaining about fireworks: Really? Nothing better to do? Man, I wish I had your life.

What is the purpose of the fireworks complaint hot line? If law enforcement is not going to enforce the ordinance, repeal it.

On July 4, my dog was shaking with fear and trying to dig a hole in a basement closet. I was awakened at 11:30 p.m. July 3 by what sounded like dynamite. Use of illegal fireworks gets worse each year, as does all behavior when rules aren’t enforced.

Fireworks? Your rights should not infringe on mine. Especially if you start the week or even days before the holiday, you are not celebrating anything except your own personal selfishness.

Thank you, Hobby Lobby, for your Sunday full-page historical advertisement. That was an important public service.

What’s the fascination with Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump? Besides straight talk and maybe bombast, they are famous business leaders. She was fired as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and he’s gone bankrupt several times.

The Obama/Democrat propaganda media are accusing Trump of being narcissistic. Really? With the king of all narcissists, Obama, taking up space in the White House?

Trump’s response is much like a fool who has stepped on a cow paddy. Rather than admit stupidity, he steps in several more as if to say, “See? It is no big deal.”

I am waiting for one honest person to write of the disaster that is the present Democratic regime, or any Democrat candidate. You’d think that they had really impacted Americans in a positive way. People of intelligence should speak to the disaster they promote, for all of us.

You know what the Russians would do if we flew a B-1 bomber off their coast? They would shoot it down, which is exactly what we should do to their bombers when they fly off the coast of California or Alaska. I bet future flights would stop.

I am in the beginning stages of starting a new business in Wichita. Thanks to Gov. Sam Brownback, I am having second thoughts.

Upholding one law in the Bible while passively breaking the others is appropriately called foolishness, but expecting others to believe in your righteousness is pushing it a little too far. Selective religious laws are foolish also.

Let’s see – I paid income tax on the money I used to buy my new car, then paid sales tax on the new car, and then paid a property tax for the privilege of driving it. It’s a good thing we didn’t get a tax increase this year.

Someone inform the author of “Not pathetic” (July 8 Letters to the Editor) that we did not win the War of 1812. As my Canadian friends point out, it was a draw and they managed to burn down Washington, D.C.

This story was originally published July 9, 2015 at 7:01 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (July 10)."