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John K. Harris

Tulsa

Letter: Inflation far above 2% prediction will last until the 2030s

Tulsa Beacon

In his news conference June 15, 2022, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said he expects inflation will be in the normal target range of 2% by mid-2024. Considering that inflation is now running at a 41-year high of nearly 9%, his expectation is bold, indeed, A look at U.S. inflation history suggests Powell’s expectation is completely…

Letter: Millions, billions and now trillions

Tulsa Beacon

Many state and local government expenditures are in millions. It used to be that federal government expenditures were in billions. Some seven decades ago, Senator Everett Dirksen is reported to have said: “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Now, the federal government deals in trillions of dollars. The…

Letter: ‘Equitable math’ in California schools is liberal lunacy

Tulsa Beacon

My late mother-in-law used to say she read the newspaper with half-eye glasses because she only believed half of what she read there was true. A short article in the Tulsa Beacon (April 29, 2021) would have stunned her. It’s titled “‘Equitable Math’ in California.” The article is indeed true but its content is lunacy…

Letter: A warning by David Wilkerson

Tulsa Beacon

The Rev. David Wilkerson, who died in a traffic accident in the Dallas area on April 27, 2011, founded Times Square Church in New York City. Perhaps you’re familiar with his most famous book, The Cross and the Switchblade (1963). In 1998, I read Wilkerson’s (then) new book: America’s Last Call: On the Brink of…

Letter: Do as Texas Does

Tulsa Beacon

I’m a football fan, especially of college and high; school teams. On the weekend of December 20-21, several Texas high school championships games (for different sized schools) were on TV (Cox, Channel 1027). I always look forward to this extravaganza! Over the years I’ve seen Adrian Peterson, Vince Yong, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murry and many…