Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 21)

Gun violence is blamed on the gun. Why are misspelled words blamed on the writer and not the pencil?

The NRA is a trade organization that cares as much about the Second Amendment as the Marlboro Man cared about your health. It’s the money, stupid.

Unfortunately, Obama, our Ivy League-educated president, in spite of his “education” never learned the difference between immigration and invasion.

If Richard Nixon would have been allowed the same latitude as Obama is being allowed, Nixon might still be our president.

I wonder if the Republican debate would have sounded any different if Jesus had been sitting in the front row.

Is there any better argument against free speech than Donald Trump? Well, Ted Cruz.

Regarding the movie “13 Hours”: The Americans were waiting for a rescue that did not happen. It did not fit the Clinton/Obama political agenda.

Gov. Sam Brownback saying that President Obama prioritized “the feelings of the radical Islamic terrorists” over our safety was bald-faced lying to me. Was he auditioning for a talk show, like Ann Coulter and others who spread twisted trash?

The overly conservative Republican state legislators have financially ruined us and have made Kansas the laughingstock of the country, and yet they keep moving into local control of our schools, into our health care choices and even into our bedrooms. It is up to the voters to remedy the situation.

It is wonderful living in this state of denial where guns are more important than our children’s education, tax breaks for the rich are more important than the average worker’s well-being, and any discussion of different ideas, religious beliefs or cultures is not tolerated.

Kris Kobach has a mixed record as a politician. He has won some races and lost some. But he is a much better politician than an attorney. He seems to lose in court on a regular basis. All at our expense, of course.

What Democrats mean by “commonsense” laws are “feel-good but mostly meaningless” laws.

Many years of experience as a patient make it evident that medicine at the general level has become largely directed by pharmaceutical companies. That’s why American medical care is much more expensive than in other advanced nations, with significantly poorer results.

When California had its water shortage, you had to request a glass of water in a restaurant. Wichitans aren’t that smart.

If city officials’ intent is to do more damage to the streets and ruin our cars with salt brine, they are doing a good job of it. When there is no bad weather in the forecast, they just keep spraying salt brine on the streets, wasting taxpayers’ money.

This story was originally published January 20, 2016 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 21)."