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Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 30)

There was a report that a drone had crashed on the White House lawn. It turns out it was just one of President Obama’s old speeches.


When’s our government going to give smartphones to people who won’t work? Everything else is free.


So, “there is nothing Christian or moral about current Republican ideology”? There’s not much Christian about Christianity either right now.


There is nothing Christian or moral about current Democrat ideology.


The Republican Party is ushering in the Apocalypse.


Run, Sarah Palin, run. Hillary Clinton will shred you like a paper cutter.


If the state is raising sin taxes again, let’s be consistent with sins then, shall we? Since the homosexual agenda is getting forced on Kansas, I vote that we look at the list of all the homosexual marriages and tax them.


So fracking doesn’t have anything to do with the waste fluids it produces? Right. Just like nuclear energy doesn’t have anything to do with nuclear waste.


Don’t you think it’s time we start referring to the recent seismic activity related to the oil boom by a name other than earthquake? I do, and I think that name should be “frackquake.”


I came home late from a card game. Next morning I asked my wife if she was worried when an earthquake struck. “No,” she replied, “I thought it was just you coming up the stairs.” My diet and exercise programs don’t seem to be contributing much to wedded bliss.


Isn’t it interesting how quickly our governor has become a cold potato in the circles previously touting him as a potential candidate for president?


Arthur Laffer said that he is not surprised Kansas is facing huge deficits because of massive tax cuts. No one else is surprised either except our clueless governor and the legislators who drank the Laffer Kool-Aid.


Take notice of the poor becoming even more disadvantaged if Kansas continues to place more emphasis on private schools.


We’ve really hit bottom now – people are moving to Missouri.


Enough already about Obama and Brownback. We can’t do any thing about their madness. But we can do something positive about legalizing medicinal marijuana.


Liberals will support any position, no matter how idiotic, inconsistent or repeatedly proven ineffective, as long as it means more government intrusion into and control over the free and sovereign individual. Liberalism is truly a cancer on our society.


Just how low is it that the Patriots will go when they try to blame a poor slob of a locker room attendant for their cheating? They must be Democrats when they think that everything that’s wrong is always someone else’s fault.

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This story was originally published January 29, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 30)."

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