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Editorial: Cheryl Baber for Senate D-35

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Republican conservative Cheryl Bebar grew up in Walters, Oklahoma. She will be on the ballot August 25 in the GOP runoff for Oklahoma Senate District 35. She went to Oklahoma City University and then Midwestern State University where she earned a scholarship to study in Geneva, Switzerland. Then she earned her law degree from Columbia…

Editorial: No luck on finding mass graves

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After spending a small fortune for a lot of workers to stand around and do little, the initial search for a mass grave connected to the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot came up empty. They uncovered no evidence of human remains. “At this point, we believe we have fully investigated this anomaly, and unfortunately we have…

Editorial: It’s time to stop the crime wave

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Crime is rampant in some major U.S. cities as Democrat mayors and governors cut police funding and shackle law enforcement. In Atlanta, during a two-week period, there were 17 murders – a 240% jump from the five committed last year. Atlanta already has 61 homicides this year. There were 66 shootings with 106 victims in…

Editorial: Justice Ginsburg should retire

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not well. The 87-year-old justice has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment since May because her cancer has returned. She was recently in the hospital to deal with gall stones and to treat an infection. In the past few years, she has dealt with colorectal, pancreatic and lung cancers….

Editorial: Will there be football this fall?

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Will we have college football in Oklahoma this fall? Maybe, maybe not. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley and his administration and Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy and his administrators desperately want to have a fall season. Riley has admitted in interviews that moving the season to the spring to avoid the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic…

Editorial: Biden: Raise middle class taxes

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, said “it’s time for Corporate America to pay their ‘fair share’ of taxes.” That policy caused Sen. Bernie Sanders, a devout socialist, to say it would “make Biden the most progressive president since FDR.” Biden wants to reverse all of President Trump’s tax cuts….

Editorial: Anti-Christian bias from CNN

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Why would any God-fearing Christian pay attention to CNN – especially Don Lemon? Besides being an ultra-liberal socialist, Lemon wants to tear down the reputations of the Founding Fathers of the United States. And he attacked Jesus Christ as being “fallible.” On July 6, Lemon said that American history is “propaganda” and needs to be…

Editorial: Recall petition for Norman mayor

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Conservatives in Norman, Oklahoma, are fed up with their liberal mayor and the progressive city councilors. The Council and Mayor voted to cut $865,000 from the already tight Norman Police budget. As a result, concerned citizens have filed a recall petition. Already in July, petitioners have more than 10,000 of the 22,000 signatures required for…

Editorial: Great economic news in June

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In an ongoing effort to damage the U.S. economy and President Trump’s re-election bid, the liberal news media is downplaying the June employment report. The American economy added 7.8 to 8.8 million new jobs in May and June. That is an historic record. Those numbers have never happened in our country. The Bureau of Labor…

Editorial: California forbids church singing

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The U.S. Constitution holds little sway with the state government in California or Gov. Gavin Newsome, an ultra-liberal Democrat. Earlier this month, the California Department of Health issued a “guideline” stating that while churches could still hold services, singing would not be allowed. What? That’s correct. Churches in California must “discontinue singing and chanting activities”…