Opinion Line (Feb. 3)

Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott – it’s too bad everyone with talent was busy on Super Bowl Sunday.

The New England Patriots’ win in the Super Bowl just proves that cheaters always win.

Pete Carroll needs a do-over.

The NFL: deflated balls and inflated egos.

The poor manage to feed their children since only 7 percent of eligible kids eat free summer meals (Jan. 27 Eagle). This isn’t surprising since we already provide them with food stamps and food banks. Liberals are wrong about the need.

The free food summer lunch program for low-income children is not very popular. Use that money for school lunches. Don’t discriminate, but include all students. This even saves on bookkeeping expenses. Keep menus simple. If the meals do not fit kids’ needs, they can bring their own lunches.

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and sign your whelps up for free meals this summer. Why be responsible for feeding your own kids when there are so many who are willing to feed them at taxpayers’ expense? There, that should help get the word out.

Fracking isn’t causing earthquakes in Kansas. It’s the devil jumping up and down, in approval of Gov. Sam Brownback’s sucking money out of other state department funds. Which will eventually take our state to where he lives.

Mayor: The people, not a bureaucrat with a vested interest, should decide whether to align local elections with the state and federal election cycle. Place the issue on the ballot. Saying local elections are important and should remain separate doesn’t make sense because of past turnout.

Prisoners are human, too, and offenses against them are crimes against humanity, too. What the judge, attorneys and system did to free Kenneth Reese was to substantiate that the sexually offended prisoners in the Sedgwick County Jail have no rights, even to protection from the jailers. Disgusting.

It speaks to how ineffective and destructive our unemployment benefit system is when of the 3 million workers taking new jobs in 2014, 1.8 million took the job immediately after their unemployment benefits expired.

If you like gas in your car, food on your table, heat and air conditioning in your house, clothes on your back, etc., you’d better hope they keep drilling, because absolutely everything we have or do depends in some way on oil.

“Boyhood” is the front-runner to win best picture at the Oscars. It was shot over 12 years. I watched it the other day, and it sure seemed like more than 12 years to me.

This story was originally published February 2, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Feb. 3)."