Opinion Line (Nov. 25)

Since the taxpayers invested our money, we should receive a portion of the profits of the city-owned Hyatt Regency Hotel and county-owned Intrust Bank Arena during the NCAA tournaments and beyond. This is the biggest gripe: We pay and pay but never get anything in return.

If you come to Wichita for the 2018 NCAA tournament, be prepared to be miserably uncomfortable in the arena’s lousy seating. And be prepared to park in the next county over.

President Obama is scared to death of China. His trip to talk with the Chinese leadership was a farce and a trap. Our president knows this, but he refuses to admit the truth to the American people.

Have you noticed the kind of people who oppose and hate our president are the same kind of people who opposed and hated Abraham Lincoln?

The new HHS secretary brags that 71 percent of the people covered by ACA like the program. There is something fishy there. Twenty-nine percent don’t like lower premiums, better care, more doctors, etc.?

The “Gruber” Democrats will now be believing the White House lies about not knowing that Obamacare was just the biggest hoax in history.

Jonathan Gruber got a $297,600 contract to work on Obamacare in 2009. He previously received at least $95,000, along with money from various states. Maybe we are the stupid ones to pay this guy that kind of money.

Replace the two Sonic guys with George W. Bush and his brother Jeb. Have them discuss economics and the laughs will never stop.

Because Fred Phelps is dead, I’d like to nominate House Speaker Ray Merrick as the Most Embarrassing Kansan. Not only did he and his party insult educators earlier this year, but now he enlarges his insult to include all state employees.

It is not keeping within the Constitution for citizens of any state to be allowed to vote away the civil rights of fellow citizens. You do not have the right to vote away the rights of people who happen to be gay just because you do not like them.

One problem with conservatives is that they think they are the only people in the world who work hard, pay taxes and take care of their own.

If I don’t quit giving $19 a month to all the organizations on TV, I will have to start up my own charity.

This story was originally published November 24, 2014 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Nov. 25)."