Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 10)

The White House doesn’t want to talk about the real unemployment rate of 11.3 percent, only the 5.7 percent rate that does not include part-time workers.

Most Americans are tired of the apologist-in-chief, President Obama, who takes every opportunity to lecture us about the atrocities of ancient Christians and how their tradition is as evil as Islam’s. Make sure there is nothing close to a repeat of him in 2016.

ISIS might think they are trying to terrorize the world, but they are doing a much better job of galvanizing it.

To the contributor trashing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid: It is our own money, not a government wealth drain. How dare you berate us for collecting on our investment?

As I recall from our history, we fought a war over excessive taxation by the ruling class. Is that what we must do again to get government spending under control?

I cannot believe all you people who are so selfish to object to feeding hungry children. Or feeding the hungry. Then you pretend to be Christian. Read the Bible.

“The 700 Club With Pat Robertson” is the worst show on television, and KWCH should be embarrassed for televising it.

Isn’t it interesting that the governor and the Republican budget mis-managers went to the very program they hate, the Affordable Care Act, for funds to cover the shortfall?

I see Brownback is using $55 million from Obamacare funds to plug part of his budget hole. Too bad he refuses to expand Medicaid so other Kansans can use Obamacare, too. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, indeed.

Ultraconservatives and tea party members say they want a smaller, less-intrusive government. Due to layoffs and firings, the “smaller” part is happening in Kansas, but less intrusive? That’s a joke. Lawmakers impose their positions on all of us, then tie our hands so local governments lose local control.

Cutting school funding is the very last thing this benighted state needs to do.

So our lying politicians are now stealing money from highway maintenance, sick people and children in order to give a tax cuts to the rich people in the state. The term “compassionate conservative” is the new oxymoron.

If you don’t have your child immunized and that child infects someone else, you should be held criminally liable.

That’s a nice SRT8 Hemi. What good is it when you miss the green light because you were on your phone?

Whoever is responsible – The Eagle? – please stop littering our streets with the orange bags with the paper/advertisement. Obviously no one wants them, as they lie in the streets for weeks.

This story was originally published February 9, 2015 at 6:13 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 10)."