Opinion Line (Jan. 24)

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, like Columbus, Presidents and Veterans days, is a holiday where those of us in the private sector work and pay for the pensions of those in the public sector who are taking the day off.

Racism – like pornography and loud, obnoxious music – usually damages the person who practices it more than those who know him. You may not think you are a racist, but it shows. We know.

Something is seriously wrong with a country where a movie about a guy who kills 160 people and is called a hero attracts more viewers than one that depicts nonviolent protests for social justice by a Christian minister.

Apparently, many on the left can’t support a movie with a soldier as the lead who isn’t portrayed as deranged or a victim.

I am sick of reading about men killing their girlfriends’ kids and, even worse, the women who let it happen. When are these gals going to realize these guys they are moving in with are interested in only one thing, and it is not watching their child by another man?

Everything about Kansas’ economy is trending in the wrong direction and opposite the nation. Now we hear that Wichita’s unemployment rate is ticking upward while the nation’s is dropping like a rock. Thank you, Gov. Sam Brownback.

If you think tax cuts should be repealed, you need your head examined. You can always send them more money if you feel like paying more. All taxes are theft. Only a nitwit would say “please steal more from me.”

Thursday’s headlines said it all: “Fewer troopers” and “Bill would let any legal gun owner secretly carry.” Does anyone now doubt where the gun crazies are taking us?

Want to see a Kansas conservative politician gag like he’s choking on a chicken bone? Ask him to support fair worker protection laws or laws helping the working class.

Johnny Manziel and President Obama exhibit the same two traits – all show and no go.

Obama’s tuition proposal is a thinly veiled way of forcing all students into the community college system. If middle-class families want to send children to four-year colleges and use 529 college savings accounts, Coverdell savings accounts, scholarships or loans to finance this choice, they should be able to do so.

There is nothing Christian or moral about current Republican ideology.

If the use of steroids is cheating in baseball, what is intentionally deflating the balls in football called?

Don’t you think it’s time the NFL paid taxes?

How does a 14th-ranked college basketball team play a conference game without it being televised?

This story was originally published January 23, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Jan. 24)."