When Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Tulsa, ran for governor in 2018, he promised that he would sign any pro-life bill that came before him. Stitt has kept that promise. He has been a vocal opponent of abortion and he wants Oklahoma to be the first state to successfully ban the murder of unborn children. That alone…
Fairness and competency are hallmarks of good public servant and Tulsa County Assessor John A. Wright gets high marks on both counts. As inflation drastically affects Tulsa County’s housing market, Wright and his staff have done an excellent job of determining market value of property and assigning the assessed valuation, which is the basis of…
Gasoline prices, which have dipped slightly, are expected to soar again soon, according to energy experts. The national average is projected to rise to $4.20 a gallon and perhaps higher. In the middle of April, the national average price topped $4. That happened even though Georgia, Maryland and Connecticut suspended state gasoline taxes in a…
Joe Biden keeps making choices that make America’s energy crisis worse instead of better. The latest intentional mistake is to allow the amount of ethanol in gasoline to rise to 15% this summer. Biden claims this will save the average American motorist 10 cents a gallon and that will solve the problem. It won’t. First,…
During World War II, Americans could only view the horrors of the war on news reels in local movie theaters. During the Vietnam War, the evening newscasts brought limited views of the conflict accompanied by U.S. casualties. During the War in Iraq, the world saw live footage of the American military in action. Now Americans…
Joe Biden’s open border policy that ignores federal immigration laws is about to make things even worse. In May, Biden plans to rescind Title 42 – a Trump-era policy that quickly expels illegal aliens due to the Chinese coronavirus. Under Biden’s regime, about 7,000 illegals were coming across our southern border each day. With the…
A sportswriter at a liberal local newspaper lamented the fact that Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the Save Women’s Sports bill that prevent biological males who masquerade as females from competing in women’s sports. He couldn’t make a rational argument over the patent unfairness of men competing against girls so he tried to rationalize that this…
The strategy by the Walt Disney Company to totally embrace the homosexual lifestyle and to oppose a Florida law that prohibits teachers from talking about sex to students from kindergarten to the third grade could have an economic impact on the giant entertainment company. And even Disney employees think so. Most Floridians – and most…
On December 15, 2021, the United States Geological Survey released an estimate for the amount of oil and natural gas reserves for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota. That estimate includes 4.3 billion barrels of unconventional oil and 4.9 trillion cubic feet of unconventional natural gas…
Abortion is murder and no matter how many laws are passed by the Oklahoma Legislature, until abortion is legally recognized as murder and outlawed, innocent livers will be lost. The Oklahoma House passed HB4327, by Rep. Wendi Stearman, R-Collinsville, which parallels the Texas Heartbeat bill. That Texas bill is causing Texas women to come to…