Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 11)

What are minority filmmakers saying? Do they want affirmative action for Oscars? I wouldn’t have much esteem for an Oscar reserved for people like me.

The vast majority of people are driving over the speed limit and aren’t having wrecks. This would seem to indicate that, no, speed does not kill. Poor driving, pulling out in front of other cars, and driving under the speed of the flow of traffic are the causes of accidents.

If the state legislators want to reduce their session from 90 days to 60 days, fine, as long as they’re willing to take a 30 percent pay cut.

Visit Kansas B.C., the country’s only Dark Ages Petting Zoo, conveniently located between Oklahoma and Nebraska and between Missouri and Colorado.

Can someone please tell me why the state office buildings need their own power plant? Is Westar Energy so unreliable that an independent power source is required? The state is drowning in red ink, yet the governor wants to spend $20 million on another boondoggle.

Barack Obama was and is a well-educated man, emphasis on “man.” Where Marco Rubio differs is that he is but a naive boy who lashes out at his opponents using playground tactics and whining when he doesn’t get his way. America can’t risk electing a boy to the presidency.

Every time I read the news, Obama is spending another billion dollars of taxpayer money on something disastrous. The sooner he’s out of office, the better.

Conservatives fear change by nature, but in their righteous calls to “make America great again” they advocate a whole lot of change.

GOP politicians, including those running for president, brag about firing public employees. However, when the next economic downturn occurs, it will be more catastrophic because there is no way the private sector can absorb the losses that are now happening with public employees.

What a waste of taxpayers’ money – Sen. Pat Roberts has four offices in Kansas. The few times he is in Kansas, he has “full access to the recliner” in the home of a donor.

Wichita wants to spend $33 million-plus to build a new library? An artist’s rendering shows 11 people in a vast brightly painted space. Just fix the current library until there is money in the bank.

Spending more than $33 million for a new library that only a few will utilize is absurd. This should be a taxpayer decision, not the City Council’s. Put it to a public vote, where I believe it would be soundly defeated.

Good women do exist. If you go to the right church for the right reason, you will find one. You definitely won’t find one at a bar or a honky-tonk or such place.

This story was originally published February 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 11)."