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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
It’s official. Democrats in Congress want to legalize abortion up unto to point of birth. Their bill last month would have taken America closer to codifying infanticide than ever before. Forty-nine Democrats voted for the “Women’s Health Protection Act” – which have been named the “Death to unborn babies bill – this month and thank…
The U.S. Constitution is under assault. Our southern border is being overrun. Civil liberty is being quashed in the name of health care. America is poised to go to war with Russia. Inflation is outpacing economic growth. The national debt is over $30,000,000,000. Gas costs more than $4 a gallon and mothers are running out…