Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 9)

I’m going to have to get some more warm clothing if this global warming lasts much longer.

I assume that 99 percent of those who signed the petitions to legalize marijuana are pot smokers. Agree?

Check out substance abuse counselors carefully before you or loved ones get involved with them. Some are just plain ignorant and some are abusers themselves.

Two tragic stories this week: Abducted California baby was found dead in dumpster; Kansas City infant was killed from a drive-by shooting. No rioting. No protests. No calls for justice. No Al Sharpton.

Obama has been begging the Republicans to give him the money to rebuild America’s roads and bridges, to no avail. Yet Speaker John Boehner says Obama’s veto of the Keystone pipeline will kill jobs and infrastructure. How does he figure that?

It’s hard to believe that voting on the Keystone pipeline is the top priority for Republicans.

Now that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are leading the Congress, do you think they will try to create a national Brownbackistan?

I’m retired and have no kids or grandkids. But I would gladly pay my fair share of any increase in taxes to properly fund our public schools.

If you all elect a Republican president in two years, get ready to kiss Social Security and Medicare goodbye.

The American economy added 241,000 jobs in December. Those were not all part-time retail help. It would appear the president is doing something right.

Who will tell Emperor Obama that he has no clothes?

Gee, until I read Opinion Line, I never realized a president became a dictator when he exercised his right, enumerated in the Constitution, to veto a bill passed by both houses of Congress.

It is deplorable when the left categorizes the new Republican Senate with a “hate Obama” mantra. Half-baked, sophomoric attempts to demonize the opposition damage the republic. It would be nice to put on rose-colored glasses and pretend we love one another, but name-calling fails the test of objectivity.

Mr. President: Is killing our enemies really more humane that boarding them at Gitmo?

If you don’t like the way that the Fox News reporters dress, don’t watch Fox News.

I can see Hillary now, in her office empathizing with the Parisian terrorist murderers.

If you’re in enough of a hurry to cut through a parking lot to avoid a red light, you’re also resourceful enough to set your morning alarm five minutes earlier so you can get where you are going on time.

This story was originally published January 8, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 9)."