Opinion Line (Aug. 28)

Once again the U.S. military has had to save the French. Kudos to our men in uniform.

The world post-World War II: “Never Again” (Nazis). The world present-day: “Gee, I’ll take yet another selfie and read about the Kardashians” (ISIS).

Gov. Sam Brownback is worried about Gitmo prisoners coming to Fort Leavenworth. Meanwhile, he is giddy about the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility coming to Manhattan. Surely the biodefense lab will be a far greater target for terrorists than a few prisoners in a maximum-security prison.

Is Brownback out of his mind? Like people during the Depression, Kansas’ only hope for economic survival might be to take in boarders. I’m talking about boarders from Guantanamo. Think of the commerce, the jobs, the tourism. Why, it’s the first ray of sunshine since he took office.

Donald Trump is an absolute hoot. He brings a breath of hot air to this tedious group of wannabes.

It’s no wonder a buffoon like Trump is leading in the polls – we’ve become a nation of buffoons. America is a caricature of her former greatness. We not only tolerate buffoons, we celebrate them. Trump is not what Americans need in a president, but he may be all we deserve.

It appears to me that columnist Davis Merritt is a little afraid of Donald Trump (Aug. 25 Opinion). Could it be that he doesn’t think and talk like a politician?

Expect much more such commentary from Merritt. Trump is starting to make him nervous.

Republicans have waited more than 20 years for the Clintons to receive their comeuppance. That will happen soon, thanks to Hillary’s private e-mail server shenanigans. Legal trouble will keep Hillary and her pervert husband out of the White House.

Kris Kobach says birthright citizenship can be eliminated without a constitutional amendment and that he is confident the Supreme Court would uphold doing so. And we all know that Kobach is never wrong about how the Supreme Court will vote.

Kobach, the deacon of voter purity, has fallen on his own cross. He wants to wipe out alleged voter fraud through restricted voter access, yet is unwilling to allow an investigation of plausible irregularities from voting machine returns. I would say “vote him out,” but he controls the ballot box.

If the statistician at WSU had claimed that the voting anomalies had favored the Democrats, Kobach would have released the records months ago.

This story was originally published August 27, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Aug. 28)."