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Letter: How to handle detrimental rules, regs

Tulsa Beacon

In “The Inner Ring”, C.S. Lewis describes a mass psychological phenomenon in which a certain social elite manipulate a much larger group of people.  They do so by employing a technique that works on the fears of nearly all people to avoid appearing stupid, uneducated, ill-informed, or naive. Furthermore, they manipulate the desire of most…

Letter: It is difficult to argue against true democracy

Tulsa Beacon

The Greeks have taken over China! According to reports, Xi Jinping told President Biden over the phone that the globe was heading inexorably toward autocracy and that he needed to get in step with it. Xi says the world is changing extremely fast, and a democracy that requires the consent of the people for every…

Editorial: Stitt defies Republican leaders

Tulsa Beacon

It’s nice to finally have a governor with backbone. Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is more of a businessman than a politician, stood up to the scheming Republican leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature and rejected their flawed state budget. Stitt vetoed  parts of the $9.8 billion dollar state budget passed in May by the Oklahoma Legislature…

Editorial: Kevin Gray for District Court Judge

Tulsa Beacon

It’s sometimes hard to know how to vote for a District Court Judge. On June 28, Tulsa County voters will cast ballots on an open seat, District Judge District 14, Office 12. The candidates are Kevin Gray, Todd Tucker and Tanya Wilson. Judge Tanya Wilson is already a Special Judge in the Criminal Division. Kevin…

Editorial: Harvard attracts progressives

Tulsa Beacon

Here’s a big surprise. A survey by a Harvard University newspaper of graduating students showed that only 6.4% were leaning conservative after going to the Ivy League School. 6.4% The Crimson newspaper emailed the survey to 1,269 graduating seniors and go responses back from 40%. The results were 4% lean conservative and 2.4% are very…

Letter: Characteristics of Critical Race Theory

Tulsa Beacon

A front page article in the May 26 edition of the Tulsa Beacon cited an article about CRT that spoke negatively about three characteristics it attributed to the White Race. (I don’t subscribe to CRT and believe that all men are created equal.) The three characteristics that CRT cited as negative about the White Race…

Letter: Where is the Church?

Tulsa Beacon

With Robb Elementary added to Buffalo Tops in a week’s time, we have a furious pair of examples of untreated lawlessness and violence in America. Where is the Church in all of this? The Church has long preached on the importance of a higher law for its own members, but seems less interested in working…

Letter: ‘Red flags’ and shootings

Tulsa Beacon

Speaking of “red flags,” an 18-year-old comes in to buy an assault weapon and a pistol, and I’m sure he didn’t look like the valedictorian of his class. The clerk could have asked the phone number of his parents or the name of his Sunday School teacher. If he answered suspiciously, hand him a long…

Editorial: Bob Jack for County Commissioner

Tulsa Beacon

The Republicans in Tulsa County Commission District 3 have to make a decision on June 28. The best choice is Tulsa businessman Bob Jack. For 50 years, Jack has played important roles in some of the most important construction projects in Tulsa. He was senior vice president for Manhattan Construction’s Tulsa division for four years….

Editorial: Paul Hassink for District 79

Tulsa Beacon

Oklahoma House District 79 is a mostly conservative district in South Tulsa that is represented by perhaps the most liberal lawmaker in Oklahoma, Rep. Melissa Provenzano. That needs to change. And she needs to be replaced by a genuine conservative – not a Democrat who filed as a Republican to win a seat. The best…