Opinion Line Extra (Aug. 5)

Amy Schumer and her cousin Chuck shouldn’t be focusing on gun control. They should focus on mental health. They’re showing how small their minds are.

Someone blamed Obama for increasing the national debt. Government 101: The Congress has control of the purse strings. The Republicans have had control of the House of Representatives for the past 4 1/2 years.

Obama was pictured standing in a correctional facility bragging about letting inmates out. He and his wife will have armed guards for life because of a change he made. These guys may hurt our families, though. He doesn’t care. All inmates were in cells as Obama spoke.

Republicans (conservatives) operate off such a devious base that they really cannot recognize truth from lies.

Ironically, Obama is hurting more low-income people with his mandated regulations than the amount he claims to be helping.

How about super PACs that increase voter participation instead of supporting a candidate?

Try as I may, I can’t find a single intrepid reporter who has gone to Mexico to see how they feel about paying for Trump’s Wall.

Soon Kansas politicians will appear in parades and at sporting events. As their chauffeured convertibles drive by, and they throw candy to children (tax deductible as business expense), remember the ones who made pledges to Grover Norquist. A big Kansas “boo!” or Bronx cheer would be well-deserved.

To the person who thinks all it takes to teach is a couple of classes on classroom management: You silly, silly, poorly informed, naive person. Take your classes and substitute in a middle school classroom. I’d love to see how your classes help and what your thoughts would be.

If the county commissioners are so concerned about Sedgwick County’s money problems, why don’t they work for free? It seems like they are not concerned when they are being paid, only when they are trying to ruin Sedgwick County.

So Spirit AeroSystems is going to spend millions of dollars to relocate because a county commissioner told it like it is? Anyone who would believe that is dumb or just plain stupid.

It is sad that many tie “success” solely to how much money someone makes. There are many important and satisfying ways to be successful that don’t involve being wealthy.

An illness is permeating this country to disgusting levels – an insane need for people to trash anything that isn’t personally important to them. The fun robot designed to show how many miles cross-country it could go instead showed the level of stupidity vandals in America have.

This story was originally published August 5, 2015 at 6:25 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Aug. 5)."