Opinion Line (Sept. 1)

Donald Trump says illegal immigrants are taking our jobs, but you can’t take a job unless you are offered a job. Stop illegal hiring and you solve immigration problems.

It’s not Trump who makes columnist Davis Merritt (and me) nervous. It’s the idiots who seem to think Trump has something worthwhile to say.

I’m normally not a Trump fan, but he is the only one out there talking good sense and judgment. Trump 2016.

Charlie Sheen wants to be Trump’s vice president. With the material these two would generate, the media would have to add hours to the 24-hour news cycle.

More killings by a mentally challenged person with a gun. So once again we are besieged with pleas for gun control. Guns do not kill people. Gun users kill people.

Fired worker murders two innocent people on camera. Claims he was depraved on account of being deprived of something: respect, honor, social standing, professional recognition. This is what we teach now from the White House on down: “You succeed, you didn’t do it yourself. You fail, it’s someone else’s fault.”

Someone asked why there was no outrage about the young man killed by the officer after a traffic stop. There was none because he dragged the officer with his car. That’s different from shooting an unarmed black man in the back.

Do states that have decriminalized marijuana air commercials for pot products? No, so it’s just alcoholics who get to see their drug of choice splashed all over the tube. Great double standard.

I’d be more impressed with Hinkle Law Firm’s new building if it were downtown. The Waterfront is not the central business district. Poor development plans.

I went to the tag office in Wellington on the next-to-last day before the end of the month my tags were due. It only took me 4 minutes, 37 seconds. Just think if I had gone when it wasn’t busy. Remember: You can do your tags at any office.

Parents who carry their infants to the ballpark and sit right behind third base in foul ball alley should be arrested for child endangerment. Either get a babysitter or watch the game from behind the foul ball screen until those little ones are big enough to fend for themselves.

At NewMarket Square recently, a lovely young clerk approached us (two elderly, white-haired women) and commented with a sincere smile: “I hope I can look as good as you two when I get your age.” This really made the day for us.

Isn’t singing “Smelly Cat” above Taylor Swift’s abilities?

This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Sept. 1)."