Editorials

Editorial: Checking the illegal immigrants

May 30, 2019

Misguided liberals in Tulsa don’t want Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regaldo to check on the legal status of suspected illegal immigrants in the county jail. For years, the county has cooperated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to have detention officers conduct background checks on prisoners to see if they are in this country legally….

Editorial: Assault on freedom of religion

May 30, 2019

Should a Christian be allowed to share their faith in a public shopping center? That’s the question before the court in Bakersfield, California in a case against Valley Plaza Mall. Attorneys for Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) represent Debra Moore, a senior citizen who is a Christian. Mrs. Moore likes to invite people to her church…

Editorial: Democrats and homosexual bills

May 30, 2019

Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill to give special rights to anyone who claims to be a homosexual. Ironically calling it the “Equality Act,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her minions crafted this bill to create new civil rights for homosexuals and make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of “sexual orientation…

Editorial: Gambling claims 2 more victims

May 23, 2019

A famous Oklahoma college football player is in federal prison because of his gambling problem. Blake Ferguson was convicted of fraud as an employee of Firstar Bank where he was a senior vice president. He stole almost $700,000 to pay off gambling debts and was sentenced to two years and seven months in federal prison….

Editorial: Liberals want to empty prisons

May 23, 2019

Liberals think that well-intentioned programs are good even if they don’t work and unintended consequences. One of the latest causes is “criminal justice reform.” Progressives argue that Oklahoma locks up too many people (especially women), that the prison system costs too much and that it is cheaper to rehabilitate than to incarcerate. They are close…

Editorial: OU president Gallogly retires

May 23, 2019

Jim Gallogly surprised everyone by announcing his retirement as president of The University of Oklahoma shortly after spring commencement. Gallogly was under fire because of his conservative fiscal views and his apparent unwillingness to toe the line with some ultra-liberal professors and staffers at OU. Add to that the allegations of sexual harassment against former…

Editorial: Equality report is not a big deal

May 16, 2019

The City of Tulsa has a better score than last year on the 2019 Equality Indicators report. Big deal. This report really means nothing. It is an effort by liberal officials – mostly registered Republicans – to make the public think that something is being done to make Tulsa’s minority populations feel at ease. The…

Editorial: Facts about the Russian probe

May 16, 2019

Here’s what we know as facts in the wake of the Russian collusion special counsel report. Did Donald Trump or anybody in his campaign conspire with the Russian government? No. Did President Trump obstruct justice? No. A president can fire a special counsel at any time but Trump didn’t do so. Trump didn’t exert executive…

Editorial: Trump vs. the chamber of commerce

May 16, 2019

The relationship between President Trump and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a train wreck. That was reinforced by an article by Brody Mullins and Alex Leary for the Wall Street Journal. The chamber is the biggest lobbying group in Washington, D.C., and a big part of the “swamp” that Trump is working to drain….

Editorial: Critics couldn’t stop Unplanned

May 9, 2019

A lot of time, effort and expense went into trying to stop the success of the movie Unplanned. The schemes didn’t work. The movie chronicles the story of a woman who had worked at Planned Parenthood abortion clinic for years until she witnessed an actual abortion. That changed her life and the movie tells this…