Opinion Line (Feb. 12)

Do the gasoline company executives wake up each morning and throw a dart at a chart with many different prices to figure out how much to charge for gas that day? Sure seems like it.

It’s funny how you never hear anyone complaining about fracking while filling their vehicles with cheap gas.

A month into the new GOP-controlled Congress, Republicans have produced nothing except a circus parade of showy, go-nowhere votes.

Republicans say they want less government; Democrats say they want government to do more. After seeing the results of the 1-cent sales tax defeat in Wichita and the Republicans taking the U.S. Senate, I just don’t want government that David and Charles Koch can lead around with a leash.

For some reason it appears that the governor of Kansas and many legislators have a strong hatred of public schools and seem intent on destroying them. All kids need a good education, not just those who are sent to private schools.

The $47,000 school piano is just another example of governmental exorbitance. And who audits government? You guessed it – government. Citizens should demand independent auditing for governmental excess from here to D.C.

So there is still an increase to school funding after a cut to the increase, and the liberal media call it a reduction in school funding.

We need to get Gov. Sam Brownback off of Kansas’ combine. He’s got the header up way too high and he’s destroying all the fences.

A sad time for the state of Kansas – a governor and Legislature out to destroy public education, the backbone of America.

The way Brownback keeps liberals’ panties twisted in knots, he’s doing something right.

About a comment that the Shockers should “man up and leave the Missouri Valley” to play the “big boys” in college basketball: The reason that will probably never happen is that WSU doesn’t offer football because of its cost. Some schools in the Big 12 should learn accordingly.

Have faith, values and religion left our sphere of interest here? They seem to have left The Wichita Eagle. Are they leaving society, too?

I like the new arrangement of The Eagle: front page, Nation & World, Local & State. Makes sense.

I wish the burritos, sandwiches and steaks were as large in person as they are shown on TV.

This story was originally published February 11, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Feb. 12)."