Editorials

Editorial: Democrat hopefuls’ proposals

May 9, 2019

Here are some of the plans of the mainstream candidates running for the Socialist Democrat nomination for president. Forgive all student debt. Make tuition free for all state-supported colleges and universities. Give poor people a monthly allowance. Place a 2 percent wealth tax on anyone worth more than $10 million. Let 16-year-olds vote. Impeach President…

Editorial: GOP saved the retirement funds

May 9, 2019

If you are a retired public school teacher, you should thank the Republicans in the Legislature for making sure you retirement check is there every month. In 2009, after 100 years of Democrat leadership, the teacher retirement fund had 49.8 percent of the amount of money needed to pay every teacher who was eligible to…

Editorial: GOP leaders stymie moral laws

May 2, 2019

What is the biggest obstacle to conservative legislation in the Oklahoma Legislature? It’s Republican leadership. State Sen. Joseph Silk, R-Broken Bow, has been unofficially blacklisted by GOP leaders, who control all the committee chairmanships and can manipulate what bills are heard and what bills are passed. Silk’s crime was wanting to stop abortion in Oklahoma….

Editorial: Phony town halls to boost taxes

May 2, 2019

Tulsa’s elected officials are gearing up for a gigantic sales tax increase in November. Powerful business people and the chamber overlords are employing the liberal daily newspaper and local TV stations to sell the public on the idea that we need to raise tens of millions of dollars in sales tax to pay for their…

Editorial: Anti-Christian in San Antonio?

May 2, 2019

Christian businessmen who follow the principles in the Bible have a target on their backs. And the attacks are growing and intensifying. A few years ago, Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A restaurants said he believed that marriage should be between one man and one woman – just as described in the Bible. That doesn’t…

Editorial: Bernie Sanders’ Medicare scam

April 25, 2019

Socialist Bernie Sanders and most of the Democrats who are running for president are promising “Medicare for everyone” as a cornerstone of their reshaping of America. Sanders is literally telling voters that he will give them free health care. That’s a big, fat lie. First, extending Medicare to everyone would bankrupt America. In that regard,…

Editorial: Homosexual mayor versus Pence

April 25, 2019

Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg thinks he is a homosexual because God made him that way and he has no choice in the matter. Buttigieg is mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a self-described “devout Episcopalian.” He has strongly criticized Vice President Mike Pence, who is not a homosexual and who believes that the Bible…

Editorial: U.S. border crisis getting worse

April 25, 2019

America has a border crisis and it’s not just poor people from Central and South America who are coming here illegally. Thousands of illegal aliens are coming across our southern boarder, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing earlier this month. “Much…

Editorial: Find Jesus Christ this Easter

April 18, 2019

Christianity is under assault in America. The moral standards delivered in the Old and New Testaments are being largely ignored by more and more people. Respect for law and order is dwindling. The institution of marriage is being defiled. People waste their lives on gambling, alcohol and illegal drugs. Prisons are filled and overflowing with…

Editorial: Local firms embrace homosexuality

April 18, 2019

More and more Tulsa companies are jumping on the Homosexual Agenda bandwagon. ONEOK recently got a 95 (of 100) score from the Corporate Equality Index put out by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. A high rating from this group means that you are bending over backwards to accommodate homosexuality. The rating is based on company…