Opinion Line (Jan. 13)

The city may spend $30 million for a new library but has no money for a new water source, street repair or improved bus service without a sales tax increase? What’s up with our city leaders? Smells funny to me.

Vote “no” to a new library, unless lots of beds are added for the homeless.

Gov. Sam Brownback was sworn in on Monday morning. I was hoping he wouldn’t show up.

Brownback needs more than prayers to get him through his second term. He also needs the intercession of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of money problems.

We have an absentee president and a spineless Congress. The next two years look bleak.

Long live freedom of speech. May no religion destroy it.

So, Obama didn’t show up for support to march with the million Paris citizens and heads of state to support those murdered by the terrorists – yes, terrorists. He has given the United States such a bad name. Where was he? Golfing?

If concealed-carry were legal in France, I wonder if those terrorists would have gotten away from the scene.

The U.S. has almost obliterated the ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq. But, of course, we wouldn’t want to give this administration any credit for making a good decision.

Let the police assume the same position as pizza delivery drivers by refusing service to certain areas. You can still go pick up a pizza to buy, but will have no one to call when your car is vandalized or your house broken into.

Blindly supporting the police is wrong. With officers being arrested for murder, assault and rape, we must scrutinize them. Some of these officers are criminals, no different from any other profession. Remember that this is the only job that allows you to legally take a life.

Are police taught to shoot to kill, rather than disable, during attempted arrests? Or do they do this on their own?

I’m not sure about my alma mater. I got an e-mail birthday card from it on New Year’s Day. My birthday is in June. Contributions down?

Are people just unbelievably lazy when they push a grocery cart all the way toward the corral but then leave the cart sitting short of that destination in a parking stall or in the driving lane? Do they think they did a good deed by getting it almost there?

Fashion sense has gone the way of common sense in young people these days. Teenage girls seem to have become nothing but skin and phones.

This story was originally published January 12, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Jan. 13)."