Opinion Line (Oct. 31)

CIA, Pentagon, FBI, fingerprint databases – all hacked. The same with just about every retail business, including the credit reporting agencies. Now USD 259. Those aluminum foil window shades and helmets are starting to look more and more like a good idea.

Gee, I wonder if the brainiacs will ever correlate the declining student test score figures to the increasing number of administrators and administrative pay increases.

Ben Carson thinks the end-times may be upon us. If he is elected, his finger would be on the nuclear button. Let that sink in for a minute.

When Democrats want Republicans to “compromise,” they really expect them to give in and let them have it completely their way. Anything less than total submission is called being an obstructionist. Do you recall President Obama meeting the Republicans halfway on anything?

If people truly had freedom, they wouldn’t need a permission slip for every cotton-picking thing.

I was shocked to see that the governor had an 18 percent approval rating. I had no idea there were that many who still approved of him.

Just so Wichita knows: If you don’t fly Southwest Airlines, it will pull out of here. I think the subsidies are the only reason it is here, and it will leave if the subsidies stop.

So a City Council member and his friends get media coverage of a stolen bicycle and the police recover it. If a common citizen has a bicycle stolen, there will be no media coverage and the police won’t care. Just more proof that the elite get special treatment in this country.

The freebies never end. After the new taxpayer-funded bike lanes were completed, you would think that a bicyclist would value his life enough to spring for his own bells, lights and reflectors.

Why is it that when the price of gas goes down my fuel gauge moves at a snail’s pace, but when the price goes up that same gauge moves faster than my windshield wipers?

If you must purchase drinks in plastic, keep the grocery sack in the car to dispose of empties, then take the bag home for recycling. Do not throw empties on the streets. Be good stewards of our city. It’s bad enough you toss your butts and other trash.

Our neighbors no longer speak to us. It seems our dog, which is overly friendly, goes to their yard to eat the garbage they have thrown out the front door. It’s a gathering place for all dogs, cats, possums and other night-roaming animals. There should be a law against it.

To more accurately describe what it is, Facebook should be called Vanity Book.

This story was originally published October 30, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Oct. 31)."