Opinion Line (Jan. 25)

If you are so afraid of going to college that you think you need a handgun to protect yourself, perhaps you should just stay home.

Kansas Board of Regents schools, including WSU, continue to protest allowing guns on campus. Meanwhile, Shocker basketball games are sponsored by Thunderbird Tactical with ads during timeouts in the gun-free arena.

We don’t need to worry about terrorists poisoning our water supply when we have corrupt politicians who line their own pockets by cutting necessary health and safety measures and not caring who is hurt in the process. Michigan’s governor poisoned his own citizens.

The government of Michigan creates a nightmare (Flint’s drinking water), and the governor apologizes in his State of the State address. The government of Kansas creates a nightmare (tax cuts that produce a budget deficit), and the governor doesn’t even mention it in his State of the State address.

I am old enough to remember when we had floods, storms and natural disasters that were not caused by climate change.

HealthCare.gov does not make “health care” more affordable. What it makes is you into a leech. It makes the people who foot the bill for your niceties poorer. It makes the government a socialist underminer of American values. Shame on all of it.

Conservative Republicans might want to rethink having Sarah Palin and Donald Trump carry their flag for them concerning family values with the pair’s collection of divorces, illegitimate grandchildren and family arrest records.

Trump and Palin – the clown car is full.

Do celebrities actually believe we give a hoot when they threaten to leave the country if such-and-such candidate gets elected? I say good riddance.

The question is not “Shall I sell my soul?” The question is how much of it, for what sort of return?

Whatever happened to the tea party? I never hear about it anymore. Have the tea partiers disappeared from the scene under the weight of their own lies?

Citing the New York Times, columnist Cal Thomas said that only one major banker went to jail as a result of the 2008 mortgage meltdown (Jan. 20 Opinion). I can’t think of a single politician who went to jail for the same debacle.

Columnist Leonard Pitts’ “Nikki Haley repeats old fairy tales about U.S. history” is only the beginning (Jan. 18 Opinion). Religion is based upon “old fairy tales,” too, and Pitts should write about that mythology.

Apparently the letters BMW on automobiles translate into “must go faster” and “weave in and out of traffic.”

This story was originally published January 24, 2016 at 6:05 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Jan. 25)."