Opinion Line (Oct. 21)

Kris Kobach’s critics argue that the fact he has filed only three cases is proof that the threat of voter fraud has been overstated. Well, I hope the ones who are thinking that are the ones whose votes were canceled out by these frauds.

With all the rhetoric coming from Gov. Sam Brownback and his minions in the Legislature about the Kansas financial state, they clearly fit into a quote my father told me 70 years ago: “There are none so blind as those who cannot see.”

The motto of the Brownback cabal seems to be: “Reality is for sissies.” He may have watched too many John Wayne movies.

Studies and tax records consistently show that conservatives are much more generous than liberals. However, while one group gives quietly, the other pounds the podium and press to give more to their constituency from the public treasury. Where’s the big heart in that? It seems more like big-government politics.

Democrat elites have hated America since the 1960s. They hate this country because of slavery, segregation, the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, the military, the police, big business, their square parents, Christian values, individual liberty, and on and on.

If George W. Bush is innocent of any blame for Sept. 11, wouldn’t it follow that Hillary Clinton is innocent of any blame for Benghazi?

President Bush was no more to blame for Sept. 11 than President Roosevelt was for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Both were surprise attacks on the United States. Benghazi was the result of an ignored plea for help from our ambassador to our State Department.

Some people think that if we outlaw guns there will be no more gun deaths. If that is true, why don’t we just outlaw murder?

You are not part of a militia and this isn’t 1776. You’re not making me feel protected. In fact, your paranoia makes me feel uncomfortable. Show some decency and keep your gun out of sight in your pants.

Comparing gun deaths to automobile deaths is ridiculous. No one buys a car to kill people and other living things with it.

So this man beats a coach with a pair of brass knuckles, and only stops because the coach’s wife intervenes. He misses a court date. Then the judge give him probation (Oct. 17 Local & State). Something is wrong with that.

Where is the justice for the coach who was beaten with illegal brass knuckles? What kind of court, prosecutor or judge could agree to just probation for someone like that?

This story was originally published October 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Oct. 21)."