Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 7)

So if you support individual rights, patriotism and self-responsibility, you are anti-intellectual? What utopia do these liberals exist in?

It appears that Cliven and Ammon are relatives of Al Bundy, the intellectually deprived father and husband in the TV series “Married... With Children.”

President Obama has announced that he will order tighter gun control measures. He is going to try to make the United States safer – you know, like his hometown of Chicago, with some of the tightest gun control measures in the U.S.

If Obama can’t sell his gun control ideas to the American people and to Congress, then he doesn’t enact laws unilaterally no matter how beneficial they are. That’s the way our system of government works.

Does anyone notice a pattern here? Obama starts making noise about ramming through gun control regs by executive order, and law-abiding, freedom-loving citizens run out and buy more guns. By the time he finally leaves office, we will have the most well-armed populace on the planet.

Relax, gun owners – President Obama doesn’t want your guns unless you’re psychotic. Besides, a well-regulated militia wouldn’t have psychotic members anyway.

The term for Donald Trump’s libelous, falsified bullying is not printable in a newspaper.

Question for Ted Cruz: Do you support Texas seceding from the union?

Starting a sentence with the word “so” is merely a way to make the reader aware that what follows adds a bit of irony or absurdity to the point that the writer is trying to make. It turns the statement into an obvious and usually opposite point to ponder.

Henry Ford nailed it: “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

Instead of complaining or looking for handouts, go out and start your own company that pays better wages, better health care, more time off and retirement benefits. You would be out of business soon, because no one would be able to afford the products or services you were selling.

Gov. Sam Brownback was correct when he said that “the sun is shining in Kansas.” It is shining so brightly that he and his legislators are blinded to the problems they are creating for Kansas.

So our governor wants to pay teachers on merit. Maybe we need to pay our elected officials in the same manner. That way we would not have to pay Brownback, Ray Merrick or Kris Kobach anything.

Brownback and the Legislature want merit pay for teachers. I think we should apply merit pay to them. Their salaries could be used to help eliminate the budget deficits they created.

Oprah is about as large a fake as I can imagine – nothing but hollow showmanship in everything she says or does.

This story was originally published January 6, 2016 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 7)."