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Chaplains at the state fair meet the needs of some needy people

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Last week, I started my 33rd year as one of the Tulsa State Fair chaplains.  All the chaplains are volunteers. We don’t get paid; many take time out of their jobs to serve in this capacity. I looked forward to this type of ministry. I sometimes find myself stuck every day going to a “Christian”…

Here’s how America will change if the Democrats win

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Here’s how life will change in America if we elect a Democrat as president. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, will levy a huge new tax on the middle class to pay for universal health care. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, will raise at least $5,000 a year on middle-class families making $60,000. Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke…

Ignorant climate change claims are damaging the United States

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It seems like the loud, false, and ignorant claims emanating from those deeply rooted in the Communist/Fascist/Socialist political philosophy have no real clue concerning the “climate change” causing the end of the world being – brought about by the efforts of mankind.  If the truth be known, it is probably the height of arrogance for…

Be kind to strangers but let kids know about ‘Stranger Danger’

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Stranger Danger was something I actively taught my children. I instructed them “Don’t take candy from a strangers”, “Don’t get into a car with strangers” etc. I even role played this for them, I would dress up in a trench coat (I read too many Mad Magazines as a child and my children know Darth…

What can America do about the rising cost of college?

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When I went to Tulsa Junior College in the fall of 1972, tuition was $6.25 per credit hour. Tulsa Junior College, now Tulsa Community College, was a godsend because before it opened its campus downtown, there were no state-supported colleges or universities in Tulsa. The University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University were the only…

Historically, gun registration and confiscation lead to tyranny

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With the fairly recent spate of “mass shootings” that has occurred, the cry has again been raised to institute “gun registration” on a national basis as well as in some states.  History has proven time and again that when guns are outlawed or confiscated (bought back), the statement, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will…

Men, women must understand each other

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One day an English professor wrote these words on the blackboard, “Woman without her man is nothing.” He directed his students to punctuate the sentence correctly. The men wrote, “Woman, without her man, is nothing.” The women wrote, “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.” These answers don’t surprise me. Throughout the years, I have suggested…

There is no ‘climate crisis’; it’s a threat to our way of life

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Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, held July 25 in Washington, D.C, Dr. Roy W. Spencer of The University of Alabama in Huntsville said: “There is no climate crisis. Even if all the warming we’ve seen in any observational dataset is due to increasing CO2 (carbon dioxide), which I don’t believe it…

My meager collection of coffee mugs each tell a story

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I have a pretty good assortment of coffee cups from a wide variety of places. If I am a coffee cup collector, it’s more by accident than on purpose. The oldest cup I own is really a beer stein from Europe. When I was in college, my friends Marsha and Terri went to Europe during…

The falsehoods from the liberal news media never seem to stop

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It seems to me there is nothing more offensive than the continuous barrage of outright lies coming from those one the left side of the political fence and the blatant twisting of factual stories found in the – mostly national but too often local – “news” sources.  Evidences of that is mind boggling but everywhere…