Opinion Line Extra (July 2)

I have been a registered Democrat for 62 years and switched to Republican this year. The primary is where we have to vote out our state-wrecking politicians.

Former Gov. Bill Graves doesn’t even live in Kansas anymore, said Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick, “so he ought to be quiet.” Sound logic? What is Arthur Laffer’s Kansas address?

They ought to film a news feature on Kansas Republicans. They could title it “Snakes on the Plain.”

It seems that Britain is learning the lesson of the sour grapes of America when some don’t get their way. The time and place to protest a voter initiative is to outnumber the votes of your opposition at the voting booth. Now, go home. Turn out in greater numbers the next time.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton had a private meeting at the Phoenix airport. With his wife under an investigation that Lynch leads, is that a conflict of interest? It depends on what the definition of “is” is.

So you think “real women don’t vote for Donald Trump”? I say real women aren’t bullied into voting for Hillary Clinton just because they are female either.

Trump is pictured on the cover of this month’s issue of Mad Magazine. What a nice tribute.

Of course there’s nothing new in the Benghazi report. There was already enough to pursue charges of treason against the Obama gang politicians.

Trump’s response to the Turkish attack was intriguing. Instead of being based on what Jesus would do, it seemed to reflect a verse found only in his personal Bible, which must be something like: “If your enemy is venal, vicious, murderous or evil, thou shalt be the same, only more so.”

President Obama likes to go to other countries and apologize for past “atrocities” made against them by the U.S. We have yet to hear him apologize for Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Washita and many others. Why does he not apologize to us?

The Orlando Police Department and its SWAT team could learn some things from the Hesston police chief and his department. If there’s an active shooter, you don’t stand outside for hours. You go in and stop the threat.

Although the risk is demonstrably small, Democrats are more fearful of an accidental shooting by a concealed-gun owner than the very high probability of casualty from a bad guy with a gun.

To the letter writer who would tip 1 percent: That is never OK or justified. A server in Kansas makes $2.13 an hour. Imagine if all wages depended upon approval rating.

This story was originally published July 2, 2016 at 12:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (July 2)."