Letters to the Editor

Letter: Oversight board is not necessary

February 21, 2019 Duane Collins

Tulsa Mayor G. T. Bynum is considering the establishment of a citizen’s advisory board to provide oversight of the Tulsa Police Department (TPD). The mayor says staffing for this board will cost the city about $500,000 per year. This proposal is being driven by activist groups who believe Tulsa law enforcement personnel have not acted…

Letter: Truth about the ‘Green New Deal’

February 21, 2019 Kevin Avera

Here is the evil truth about the “Green New Deal.” This is not some simple basic plan to implement a cleaner, lower-emissions policy into our future lives. Don’t be fooled. This is a sword aimed right at the heart of America. It seeks to : Destroy the aviation industry. There are no such things as…

Letter: Trump blasts late-term abortions

February 14, 2019 Michael Rachiele

It was so very pleasing to hear President Trump mention in the State of the Union Address that our nation has to take a stand against late-term abortion. “There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. …

Letter: Diversity nonsense in California

February 14, 2019 Duane Collins

The University of California (UC) now requires faculty to adhere to a new creed – diversity. Every applicant for a position must write a diversity statement that tells the university how, in the past, the applicant has promoted diversity — and how the applicant will promote diversity in the future. Diversity is defined by UC…

Letter: 8.8 million children got Operation Christmas Child boxes

February 7, 2019 Dana Williams

I am writing to thank Tulsa residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Because of the generosity of donors in Tulsa and across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.8 million shoeboxes in 2018. Combined with those collected…

Letter: Leaders must change their ways

February 7, 2019 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

Many in the House and Senate need to realize this is about America, not about them, and their morally corrupt political parties. They are paid high wages to work for America in a fair, sensible and Godly way. That is not what we are getting for our money now. The safety of America should be…

Letter: The cure for Oklahoma education

February 7, 2019 Byron Schlomach

Governor Kevin Stitt has made it his goal to move Oklahoma toward Top 10 status among the states. Exactly how he would measure this is unclear, but education is obviously targeted, given its prominence in his inaugural speech. This much is clear, though; Oklahoma will not become a top-ten state in education just by spending…

Letter: No trick is too low for these Democrats

January 31, 2019 Jim Solomon

The most vicious weapon the Democrats have to attack their opponents is character assassination. Pelosi said, as recorded by C-span, that internally they call it a “wrap up smear.” They compose a huge lie about a rival, enlist the mainstream media to tell the same lie and they both tell it over and over. Eventually…

Letter: Wrongheaded policies

January 31, 2019 Duane Collins

The Democrat Party is going overboard in their search for a strong woman to be our next commander-in-chief. But that search for strong women is not just confined to the political arena. It’s extended to every position of authority in our society — particularly those positions which were once thought to be only available to…

Letter: The leading cause of death in the United States is abortion

January 17, 2019 Duane Collins

In December on Fox News, Bret Baier did a short segment on “The Changing Demographics and The Declining Birth Rate in the United States.” There were 3.9 million new births in the United States last year – the lowest number since 1987. The federal government’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports the current birth rate…