Opinion Line (Jan. 23)

President Obama’s State of the Union speech really upset most Republicans. I’m waiting for them to start yelling “Benghazi!” again.

We have gone from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to Barack Obama’s “I Have a Pipe Dream” speech.

As I watched the address with my young daughters, we noticed that when the president mentioned equal pay for equal work for women, the Democrats stood and applauded while the Republicans sat on their hands. My daughters declared that they will be Democrats when they grow up.

Paid sick leave, bigger child credits and free college tuition. Sounds like welfare socialism to me.

Good leaders unite people. Bad leaders divide them. Obama is once again creating more division within our own country, while Pope Francis is uniting the whole world.

Pope Francis is guiding us to be prudent and charitable in our words and actions. He doesn’t want to limit freedom of speech. Using our free will to practice virtues of prudence and charity will take care of most problems with freedom of speech in our society.

Some people wait for His judgment while others exact payment immediately.

Good for “American Sniper.” Once again the American people show their appreciation for something with substance that lauds a real American hero who isn’t a comic-book character. And yet again clueless Hollywood elites who know nothing of life outside of Southern California respond with hate and vitriol.

It’s really very simple economics. All the government wants you to do is get a job, go to work every day, pay all your bills, keep your mouth shut and then send all the rest for it to spend as it sees fit.

So Gov. Sam Brownback’s response to the court ruling that the state is underfunding schools by $500 million is to propose cutting funding by an additional $127 million. Wow.

Which of the following is the most messed up? (1) Kansas state income tax regulations, (2) Kansas liquor laws or (3) Brownback’s math? While Nos. 1 and 2 are equally obsolete and unfair, No. 3 may create the greatest problems for the future of Kansas.

Acting Wichita police chief: Please have all your officers put on their raincoats and ticket all the drivers who do not have their lights on when it is raining. This has been a state law since 2006.

Why does a box of salt, salt being older than the Earth, need an expiration date?

This story was originally published January 22, 2015 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Jan. 23)."