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Editorial: Biden’s threat to unvacccinated

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Here was the grim holiday message from President Joe Biden. Americans who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus are facing a winter of “severe illness and death.” Biden said the omicron variant is in America and “it’s going to increase.” He predicted severe illness and death for the unvaccinated, their families and the hospitals “they…

Editorial: The Christmas season is good time to find out who Jesus is

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Where will you spend eternity? That’s a question that almost everyone will ponder in their lifetimes. Some philosophies believe that once you die, that’s it. You just cease to exist. Others think that there might be an afterlife and if you have done more good than bad, you will go to a good place. If…

Editorial: Get involved in politics in 2022 – crucial year for our government

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People need to get involved in political races and 2022 would be a great time to get seriously involved. This next year will have a host of important elections, including to U.S. Congress, governor of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Legislature, Tulsa city offices, judges, school board races, county races and some very important ballot issues. The…

Editorial: Congratulations to OSU, Gundy

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Congratulations to Coach Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State football team. The Cowboys will proudly represent their university and the State of Oklahoma at the Fiesta Bowl and play a powerful Notre Dame team. OSU and Notre Dame have never played each other. With modest preseason predictions, the Cowboys almost had a perfect 12-0 regular…

Editorial: Oppression in New York City

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The city of New York is mandating vaccinations for the Chinese coronavirus for all workers – public and private. New York already mandates vaccinations for teachers, policemen, firefighters and all city employees. To top that off, the city instituted a vaccine mandate for employees of private and Christian schools. “We in New York City have…

Editorial: Venables is a proven winner

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Replacing Lincoln Riley with Brent Venables may turn out to be one of the best things to ever happen to Oklahoma football. That’s saying a lot. Riley was less than candid when he quit OU to take the job at USC. Riley won a lot of games at OU. He averaged 11 wins and two…

Letter: What made Lincoln Riley leave OU?

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The reasons most heard, for (Lincoln Riley’s) leaving seems to be about three things. One of them being that he left for a significant salary increase. A second reason being for the opportunity of returning the Trojans to a powerful football team as Pete Carroll did. With his recruiting ability to  have drawn California players…

Letter: Abandoning law

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It has become apparent to anyone with a little gray hair that society from top to bottom has fallen for the Beatle philosophy of “Let it be.” Don’t interfere with whatever folks want to do. When they get deep into what used to be called aberrant behavior like adultery, gambling, prostitution, bankruptcy, drug abuse/alcoholism, or…

Editorial: Don’t tap the strategic oil reserve

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Joe Biden is making one purposeful energy mistake after another. The latest is a purely political move to draw down 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a lame attempt to lower gasoline prices. After shutting down oil pipelines and forbidding oil and natural gas exploration on federal lands, Biden pleaded…

Editorial: More President Biden hypocrisy

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On February 1, 2020, in the midst of the presidential campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden blasted former President Donald Trump for issuing a travel ban on some countries in Africa due to an outbreak of the coronavirus. “Trump further diminished the U.S. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. This new ‘African…