Opinion Line (Nov. 30)

Are the “climate” scientists we laughed at in the 1970s who warned of a looming ice age the same ones who are warning of impending scorching now?

Climate change deniers: Those were not earthquakes you felt. There is no such thing as an earthquake. What you felt was the reaction when you fell off your mountains of denial. Keep on fracking.

Thanks, Richard Ranzau, Sam Brownback and Karl Peterjohn. Our Republican leaders are doing what they said they would do, and The Eagle editorial board hates it.

Peterjohn’s racist grandstanding was disgusting. He needs to resign immediately.

Describing the recent policy decisions of County Commission Chairman Richard Ranzau as merely “boneheaded” demonstrated the blatantly conservative media bias that runs rampant on the Opinion page of The Eagle.

The “new” Eagle looks a lot like People magazine.

Brownback is right for not wanting to let in Syrian refugees. Who’s going to feed, clothe and support them? Not with my tax dollars. If religious organizations want to let them into our country, then these organizations should support them, forever.

It is amusing that a couple of months ago, the politicians were thumping their Bibles and saying this country was founded on Christian principles. Yet when it comes to accepting refugees, it’s: “The Golden Rule? What’s that?”

Wichita needs to work to bring in companies that will provide good jobs, instead of offering credits to these low-pay, poor-benefit call centers.

Poverty is the normal, natural state of all living matter, while prosperity is an earned status of those who reject poverty.

Police are baffled why there are now more armed robberies. I think the simple answer is the casino. When people are losing thousands of dollars, some turn to crime to replace their losses.

Everyone is so focused on the physical effects of bullying, while no one talks about how words can hurt more than any punch.

When the pressure from peers to do drugs and alcohol is greater than the peer pressure to do something good, that doesn’t reflect the lack of education about the danger of drugs, but your inability to surround yourself with good peers.

Teenagers these days spend too much time on their phones. They need to learn to put down the device, and look up and see the opportunity that has been waiting for them.

There is no QuikTrip being built on the golf course at Harry and Oliver, and no green space is going to be lost. It’s going to be across the street. Get informed, citizens.

This story was originally published November 29, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Nov. 30)."