Opinion Line (July 18)

Why didn’t WSU inform the public that Lake Afton Observatory was in danger of being closed? How about WSU alumni coming together to save it? Maybe WSU could use some money from the increases in tuition and parking. County Commission, City Council and Wichitans: Speak up.

In a convenience store at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, I saw men and women taking breaks from their backbreaking work, covered with sweat and dirt, grabbing cold drinks. I saw others, with pillow marks on their faces, still in their pajamas and house shoes. What a great country.

We need more intellectual people in this country, not gun-toting flag-wavers.

All we need in this country are more semi-automatic and automatic weapons in the hands of arrested development “cowboys.” What a country of fools we’ve become.

So the pope is now opposed to capitalism. And just who does he think built the Catholic Church during the past three centuries? I assure you, it wasn’t all the poor people he seems to embrace. And still, he wants 10 percent of your income to support the church. Hypocrite.

Remember the “good ol’ times” when the political parties pulled delegates from the states to nominate a candidate for president in July or June, only a few months before the national election? Can we go back to “then,” please?

The Koch brothers are buying the state and federal governments through their financial largesse. They killed the Export-Import Bank just because they could, despite the harm that will cause. How long will it be until responsible people – including at The Eagle – acknowledge we are witnessing a bloodless coup?

Who will be the first to be offended by the Wichita flag?

So, some rednecks in Oklahoma greeted President Obama with Confederate flags. If it weren’t for low class, some Okies would have no class at all.

I watched Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal, and I had the feeling all the way through it he was about to say “please.”

The Iran nuclear agreement may be a very good deal, but with buffoon Obama promoting it, and pathological liar Benjamin Netanyahu and congressional hyenas like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham trashing it, how are ordinary Americans to know what to believe?

Neville Chamberlain, 1938. Barack Obama, 2015. No difference.

Our senior citizens in nursing homes and assisted living facilities deserve “made from scratch” chicken soup, not the thick, institutional, canned type that so many try to get by with.

TV stations tell people to seek shelter during a tornado, but then show the video from people taking pictures of the tornado.

That “Call naaooww” siding salesman on TV really creeps me out.

This story was originally published July 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (July 18)."