Opinion Line (Nov. 14)

Global warming is an indisputable fact backed up by hard data and should not be subject to debate. The issues are: What is the cause of this warming? And what, if anything, can or needs to be done about it?

I had a dream last night. A Republican was elected as the next president and appointed Trey Gowdy as attornery general.

“I never sent classified material on my e-mail and I never received any that was marked classified.” What kind of nonsense is that? As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton should have been able to tell at a glance that a message was either classified or not.

If House Speaker Ray Merrick is going to handpick committee members who favor his position on Medicaid, why even have a committee? Cronyism at its finest.

It’s clear why the three legislators were dismissed from a committee to study health care: They were all involved in actually providing health care. Nothing gets in the way of ideology faster than those pesky folks who know reality, because they keep bringing up facts.

The failure of the GOP brand has become common news in the paper. The infection starts in Topeka and has spread down to the Sedgwick County Commission. How about moving this old news to where it’s more appropriate – the food advertisement pages, near the pork, ham and turkey ads?

Why are there so many front-page articles about Father Emil Kapaun’s impending so-called sainthood? Shouldn’t those articles be on a page about religion?

Right or wrong, The Eagle had its own, distinct appearance. Now it looks just like every other newspaper. I’m having trouble adjusting. I don’t feel like I’m reading The Eagle.

First, The Eagle messed up the sports section, by not keeping the sports pages together. Now this format. Why would you fix something that was not broken? It looks like something out of the 1950s.

I really like the new Eagle format. It is quick and easy to find things. I especially really like having the TV listings back.

I am happy to pay taxes to support WSU – so sports can be on cable where I can’t watch them.

I don’t see that the “new” college football playoff system is any better than the old BCS system. It’s still several people, a few of them SEC lovers, picking the winners and losers. Alabama could lose four games and still get in.

Mean people think making a lot of money will cleanse them of their unhappiness.

You need to avoid jumping to conclusions. I saw a woman with a cigarette and thought the smoke would smell bad. I was wrong. Her perfume was worse.

This story was originally published November 13, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Nov. 14)."