Opinion Line (Oct. 18)

I won’t complain about the coming construction at the dangerous I-235 interchange. Yet is it too much to ask to finish construction on one major thoroughfare before beginning on another? No wonder people are driving angry.

It appears that if you have a loaded gun in a carry-on bag at the Wichita airport, you may get your gun taken from you, then be on your way. That’s as lax as it can get – I hope.

Let’s remember that all rights are equal, and make women’s health services as easy to get as a gun or guns as hard to get as an abortion. Guns and abortions are both constitutional rights, so defend both or you are defending neither.

I hope that if there’s ever another war on American soil, citizens will not have been stripped of their right to bear arms.

How can any intelligent person be against gun control? Maybe I just answered my own question.

Dozens of people are killed and injured in an “accidental attack” on a hospital in Afghanistan and it’s called collateral damage. If it happened here, it would be called a terrorist attack or murder.

Are we, the world, going to do something about these animals (ISIS) or not?

President Obama’s policies in Iran in particular and the Middle East in general are a mixture of historical illiteracy, moral incoherence and confusion about American values. Leading from behind is a catastrophe.

A good compromise for the WIC debate is to provide milk and nutrition to children while the parents pack their bags and arrange the trip back to their home country. Breaking into the country illegally should not give you the right to bankrupt our country.

Democrats should drop the pretense: Declare that everything is free and will be provided by the government.

We’ve tried the governor’s “experiment” for two years. Now let’s try this: Pay the governor and legislators less than a living wage and leave them uninsured for two years. Then let’s see what happens.

Thanks to Secretary of State Kris Kobach, I can sleep better now. No more worries about voter fraud. I only need to worry about rising taxes, higher electric rates, the governor’s attack on the judiciary, and the lack of educational funding.

We don’t need more voters. We need more educated voters. If you vote based only on the party your parents and grandparents voted for, please stay home. That type of voting is what is ruining both our state and federal legislatures.

Donald Trump? No. Hillary Clinton? Nope. We’ve tried politics. Let’s try sports. Dayton Moore has done wonders with the Royals. Dayton Moore for president. Let’s go, Royals.

The Royals advanced in the playoffs with great efforts from Johnny Cueto, Alex Rios and Kendrys Morales. None was on last year’s World Series team, but they are worth every cent Kansas City spent on them.

This story was originally published October 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Oct. 18)."