Opinion Line (March 7)

If the FBI can’t hack a cellphone, what good is it?

Edward Snowden made it clear that your government has little regard for your privacy. We can be thankful that Apple does. Stand your ground, Apple. And America should recognize Snowden as the hero he is.

I guess Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have a god complex since they have so much money, but they do not have the right to defy a court order. Perhaps a little time behind bars for contempt of court would bring them back to reality.

The other day I noticed a store clerk running a pin of some sort across a $20 I gave her. She explained that it proves whether the bill is counterfeit. I told her I would like to have one to run across a few foreheads of some politicians I know.

I heard that Al Sharpton vowed to leave the U.S. if Donald Trump won the presidency. Trump 2016!

How long will it take Bill to find his old desk when Hillary is indicted and convicted, as she should be?

The Kansas sales tax is now everyone’s contribution to the Kansas Republican Party’s political fund.

Amazing how those who rail on “other people’s money” never stop to think about asking: When will those 331,000 business owners run out of other people’s money?

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. In Kansas, legislators work on the simple principle that as long as you don’t tell them what you are doing, you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Our thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. Something has to be done. Gun nuts like to say guns don’t kill people, but they do. When was the last mass choking you heard about?

Rat-a-tat-tat – a sound heard too often and a growing cancer in our nation. We have become a nation of violence, and our drug of choice has become guns.

In 2007 New York Sen. Charles Schumer said no Supreme Court nominee should be confirmed for the rest of President Bush’s term. The 2007 Schumer rule also applies in 2016.

The people spoke in 2012 and re-elected Barack Obama, giving him the right to nominate the next justice. The people spoke again in 2014 and gave control of the Senate to Republicans to rein in an out-of-control, hyperpartisan president, ensuring another inexperienced left-wing lawyer won’t be on the Supreme Court.

How to fix Social Security: Make Democrats repay the money they looted from the fund. Remove the cap on Social Security tax. Stop paying everyone for everything out of the fund. It is for retirement only.

This story was originally published March 6, 2016 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (March 7)."