Opinion Line Extra (Aug. 25)

Have no fear, Kansas. If Guantanamo detainees are sent here, eventually their detention will be ruled cruel and unusual punishment by our own Supreme Court and they will be sent back.

If Obama wants his friends at Guantanamo moved, they should go to Washington, D.C., so he won’t have to put so many miles on his two new Air Force Ones. If he had any sense he would not bring them to America. Notice he picked a Republican state.

Cyberattacks have hit the federal government at all levels, including the White House and the Department of Defense, and so was using a private server by Hillary Clinton or anyone else in the government any more risky than using a government server?

Does anyone think it’s just a coincidence that Bill Clinton is shown on the news playing golf with Obama as Hillary is being investigated by the FBI?

The EPA, IRS and Department of Education need to be abolished – at the very least.

With all this “gun control” talk I haven’t heard one politician say how they plan to take guns from criminals, just law-abiding citizens.

The list of delinquent property-tax payers reveals many, many LLC businesses. These are the same people on track to pay no income tax in Brownbackistan. How nice of the rest of us to support these scofflaws. Meanwhile, the Republicans can concentrate on punishing the poor.

Not only are LLCs not paying state income tax, according to the delinquent real estate tax list, many are not paying property taxes either. What a deal.

Wichita calls itself the Air Capital of the World. Why not also tout Wichita as the “Home of the NBC World Series”? When people say “Little League Baseball,” you think Williamsport, Pa. A second, fresher Wichita brand couldn’t hurt.

I am amazed that people do not realize that if all the traffic lights turn green as you approach, those going the opposite direction will hit all the red lights. More one-way streets would help, but no one wants that.

A reader questioned if there was any public reason the lights downtown could not be synchronized to allow a flow of traffic to save on fuel and omissions. There sure as heck is. Stay off your cellphones at every stoplight you come to and maybe you would not hold up cars behind you.

Really? The WSU Foundation’s endowment is $280 million, and WSU cannot provide adequate campus parking, keep open the Lake Afton Observatory or keep fees from increasing for engineering students? Why do they think student population has dropped?

There is no reason that just a telephone and answering machine should be so complicated that it requires 65 pages of instructions.

This story was originally published August 24, 2015 at 7:01 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Aug. 25)."