Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 16)

A presidential aspirant should tell the voters, “If you will give me a Congress that will work, I’ll give you an effective government.”

There is a special place in hell for senators who in 2002 voted to invade Iraq in order to prove they were tough enough to serve as president some day.

Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem made stunning and outrageous statements in condemning women for not supporting Hillary Clinton. I am sure that Bernie Sanders is hoping that Hillary continues to use these ladies in her campaign, as they succeeded in offending large numbers of female voters.

Choosing the best candidates can require a great deal of time and effort. Fortunately, in Kansas we are bombarded with mailings and other media from Americans for Prosperity. To vote the best interest of Kansas, all one needs to do is pay attention, then vote against AFP’s recommendations.

Our governor and Legislature think that the Kansas Supreme Court is trying to do their job for them. If the Legislature would simply do its own job the way the state constitution tells it to, the court and the majority of Kansans wouldn’t have a thing to say.

Of the 17,298 new businesses in Kansas last year, how many will be exempt from state taxes? How many of the 15,600 that dissolved were taxable? How many were simply restructured in order to avoid paying taxes?

According to Christians, their religious values trump everyone else’s right to believe in something different. If they had been allowed to prevail, the U.S. Constitution would have been in dire peril.

You’re right – Jesus didn’t give drug tests before feeding the multitudes. But then he wasn’t the government, and he wasn’t feeding people by legally stealing everybody else’s money to pay for it.

Only an idiot would believe things can or should be “free.” Someone somewhere will have to pay for that “free” stuff. What we should be free from is paying for other people’s stuff. Otherwise, the people paying for the “free” stuff aren’t free from the freeloaders.

If I have to pass a drug test to get the job to pay the taxes that fund deadbeats, then deadbeats should have to pass a drug test to receive the funds.

Convicted murderess Jodi Arias has lost her visitation privileges for six months. This for calling a female guard a vulgar name. I am very surprised. She has visitors?

I know why – even though this isn’t Chicago, Los Angeles or Boston – drivers are so bad here. Just read the nonsense they put in the Opinion Line.

Is it really front-page news when a fetus knocks himself in the head? Come on – The Eagle can do better. That story belongs in local news or, better yet, on YouTube.

This story was originally published February 15, 2016 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 16)."