Opinion Line (Aug. 12)

Here is my advice for any Republican who wants to be president: Don’t cry like a little baby when a woman asks you a hard question.

Ben Carson is an accomplished retired pediatric neurological surgeon now running for president. You cannot fake that like you can fake community organizing.

If Donald Trump is elected, would Air Force One be big enough for him?

Instead of attacking Trump, liberals should embrace him. He is, after all, the torpedo that will sink the GOP.

Don’t worry about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump being our next president. With what Obama has up his sleeve, there may not be another election.

There are 550,000 fewer full-time jobs today than when the recession started in December 2007. This administration’s job-killing policies are a large part of the problem. Therein lies the real economic injustice.

County commissioners: Just bond the roads. Don’t pay cash. We don’t use them up in one year; there’s no need to pay for them all in one year. Then the entire funding for the health programs and all the other cuts could be restored.

You don’t want to contribute to the zoo, health care or museums? I don’t want to pay for your use of roads. I only want to pay for the roads I use. We’ll track people’s usage by their cellphones and categorize rates by the road type.

Why all the despair over the County Commission’s proposed cuts? Like at the state level, you elected these kooks. You deserve what you get.

Every time I see 26 pages of delinquent property taxes, I think I’m such a schmuck for paying all my taxes.

It’s amazing that there are 26 pages of delinquent taxpayers in Sedgwick County. No wonder the city and county must cut services or increase taxes on the few of us who are paying our share. How about some delinquent tax enforcement?

I guess the poor LLC groups are confused. Judging by the list of tax delinquencies, they must think since they don’t pay state income taxes that they don’t have to pay property taxes either. I think I know why the city and county budgets needed to be cut.

Is anyone surprised we have a shortage of teachers the way Brownback has treated them?

Early morning rains. Streets flooded. My morning Eagle, in a blue plastic overcoat, was floating west on 13th Street. I guess Mother Nature was laundering the news.

My doctor told me I needed to lower my blood pressure so I am skipping the Opinion Line for a week.

This story was originally published August 11, 2015 at 7:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Aug. 12)."