Opinion Line Extra (Nov. 6)

Try complying with legal authority’s directions and you won’t get tossed. If I acted like a fool in school, or anywhere else, I’d have caught it when I got home. Now they just want to blame law enforcement.

People need to pay attention to what’s happening. One observation is that when a company abandons the big box and rebuilds a store one-fifth the size, it employs fewer people.

Young people are in such a hurry, except when they are on their phones and plodding along at 20 mph or walking like zombies.

Every election, Republicans running for president complain that Washington is broken and full of waste, fraud and abuse – somehow conveniently ignoring that a Republican Congress has been running the country for most of the past 20 years.

I’m a lifelong Democrat and I love this country, its president and God. The haters are always going to hate.

Hillary Clinton was telling two stories immediately about Benghazi – one story to the public and one, the truth, to her daughter. Unfortunately, this is all too true at many levels of our government. The truth is never a consideration. They make up some line of baloney that they think the public will buy.

I believe Clinton would have received more respect if she would have given the Benghazi committee the finger.

Maybe voters believe Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson and possibly even Donald Trump have America’s best interest in their heart, and sense that the other candidates are just in it for what can be gained for themselves, their family and their close friends at everyone else’s expense.

The last Bush wiped out half of everybody’s money in the stock market. I will not forget the stock market fell to 9,000 points, and the stupid “mission accomplished” statement aboard a aircraft carrier. Bush-whacked twice was enough for me.

Of course we want everyone to be able to have food, clothing and a home. We give a significant percentage of our income helping the down and out. But we don’t believe it’s the government’s job to subsidize it by stealing our money under threat of force.

Is every political cartoonist in the world left-leaning? You would think so if you only read The Eagle. Richard Crowson fits right in. How about some balance, guys? All of yours slam the right, slam the GOP, slam the conservatives, slam the Republican candidates.

Some contributors think that because the Kansas Speaks survey is done at a university, it’s students who are surveyed. Not so – it’s a random telephone sample of the whole state. There’s actually a science to this. But never mind – those contributors probably think science is just a liberal plot.

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Nov. 6)."