Opinion Line (Dec. 1)

Wichita has chalked up another one. The Carr brothers, BTK, a woman being robbed while dying in a drive-through, a 100-year-old female being raped, and now a woman being beaten, raped and set on fire. What a sickening legacy.

It is not the police’s job to protect you. That’s your own responsibility.

The Keystone XL pipeline will be a great job creator. The Ogallala Aquifer isn’t going to clean itself. And those will be good-paying federal jobs.

Within the past six months, U.S. gas prices have dropped 60 cents per gallon. It would be wise to apply a good portion of that savings to the gas tax for rebuilding our nation’s deteriorated bridges, roads, etc.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said ISIS is the most brutal threat ever to the region. She has obviously forgotten her German history and the Nazi atrocities.

Nik Wallenda may walk a tightrope, but we should be wary of walking a more treacherous way by trying to twist the Scripture text to tell us what we want it to.

Issue religious marriage licenses (church) and nonreligious marriage licenses (non-church). Your license preference would legally allow marriage equality along with true separation of church and state.

Now that gay marriage is legal, I won’t have to deal with it. God will.

Where are the headlines screaming “Benghazi ‘scandal’ just another Republican hoax”?

If a tree falls in the forest on your head and the mainstream media say it didn’t, are you still dead?

If a tree falls in a privately owned forest and a Democrat isn’t there to steal it, it still belongs to the rightful owner.

The officer was not indicted, so they rioted and looted. If he had been indicted, they would have rioted and looted.

Who was the genius who decided to announce the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo., late in the evening? It gave all of the cowardly looters the cover of darkness to commit their crimes against their own community.

Instead of demonstrating over the grand jury decision, people should protest what 50 years of disastrous Democrat policies have done for black families, education, homicide rates, poverty and wealth creation.

This story was originally published November 30, 2014 at 6:06 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Dec. 1)."