Opinion Line Extra (July 20)

The real JV teams reside in the White House and the State Department, not ISIS.

So how is this president working out for you? Now he’ll be working to get Hillary in so his so-called legacy continues. How well will that work for you?

Bill Clinton believes that he can charm, manipulate, intimidate or coerce any woman on Earth, hence the meeting with Loretta Lynch. He is probably correct in his thinking. Remember Monica Lewinsky and the infamous cigar?

Trump has spent too many years talking down to people. He just can’t grasp that the world has changed in the past 150 years. Women, poor, minorities, all people now have voices.

It would be great keeping mentally unstable people from getting guns, but how do you identify them? And if they are under a psychiatrist’s care, what about the doctor-client privilege?

Any candidate (such as Tim Huelskamp) who brags he took on Obama and beat him will never receive my vote. I value a representative who will make an effort to work with those in the opposing party, instead of acting like a partisan bully or know-it-all.

Kansas’ Native Americans population should be thrilled. Settlers fed up with radical conservative policies are abandoning their Kansas stakes in droves and heading west in search of commonsense governing. Soon massive herds of American bison will again dominate the landscape, and clueless conservatives will be left wondering what happened.

I am deeply disappointed in friends, relatives and neighbors who think along political lines with no consideration for where our country is headed, and vote accordingly.

I am still waiting for a Republican to explain to me how a company making billions of dollars a year or a company that pays its CEO millions will go broke if it pays workers more than $7.50 an hour.

Free-trade agreements have nothing to do with job loss in the U.S. Jobs being moved outside this country are the result of companies, at the behest of their officers and investors, clamoring for ever-higher profits. These profits come at the expense of American employees and the fiscal health of our country.

Isn’t it amazing that a former monarchy has 72 percent of registered voters actually vote while our democracy can barely get 50 percent to vote for president and less than 30 percent for off-year elections?

John Brown was a murderous thug, and most certainly doesn’t deserve to be memorialized in any positive way.

This story was originally published July 20, 2016 at 12:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (July 20)."