Opinion

Editorial: Reasons Oklahomans need tax cuts

March 17, 2022

Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature have decided to cut taxes for several reasons. First, cutting taxes stimulates economic activity. Raising taxes stagnates economic growth. Here’s proof – President Trump cut taxes and unemployment dropped. Joe Biden raised taxes and the unemployment and inflation soared. Secondly, Oklahoma is awash in revenue. Much of this is due…

Editorial: Polish people help Ukrainians

March 17, 2022

God bless the Polish people. Poland has not only accepted more than a million refugees – mostly women, children and infants – from war-torn Ukraine but has welcomed them will open arms. Poland has not refugee camps – the Polish people are taking these people into their homes. In fact, they are meeting trains loaded…

Editorial: Biden’s idiotic energy policies

March 17, 2022

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a solution for record high gasoline prices. Buttigieg said having more electric cars and vehicles would make everything more affordable. He didn’t say how that would work. Buttigieg and the Biden administration are so blinded by the myth of global warming and climate change that they ignore common sense….

Editorial: The country with energy wins

March 10, 2022

The price of a barrel of oil is rising because of President Joe Biden’s war on oil and gas. And now they are rising because of Biden’s ineffectiveness in dealing with Russia and their invasion of Ukraine. It’s not surprising to see oil cost over a $100 per barrel. In February, gas prices were almost…

Editorial: Biden eases up on the Chinese

March 10, 2022

President Joe Biden uses America’s bureaucracy to protect countries who are enemies of the United States. Russia and China are America’s biggest enemies. In February, Biden’s Department of Justice announced the end of the “China Initiative” a federal program to battle spying by the Chinese Communist Party in America. That initiative was started under the…

Editorial: Disgraceful half-time performers

March 10, 2022

The National Football League approved a disgraceful show the Super Bowl halftime show this year. Profanity was all over the place. In fact, here is the count on the profanity that peppered the show. Here are the words in some of those songs: F-word 13 times; N-word 16 times; M—– F—– – 4 times; P—…

Letter: Harsh mask restrictions prevail at Tulsa ‘beacon of freedom’ ceremony

March 10, 2022 Lori Gracey

On March 3rd, the City of Tulsa hosted a naturalization ceremony at the Cox Business Convention Center for one hundred new American citizens. Mayor G.T. Bynum gave a welcoming speech to those assembled, celebrating “Tulsa and Oklahoma and the United States as beacons of freedom and opportunity.” Mayor Bynum’s message celebrating freedom and liberty was…

Letter: Millions, billions and now trillions

March 10, 2022 John K. Harris

Many state and local government expenditures are in millions. It used to be that federal government expenditures were in billions. Some seven decades ago, Senator Everett Dirksen is reported to have said: “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Now, the federal government deals in trillions of dollars. The…

Letter: Choose: Live coward or dead hero?

March 10, 2022 Cliff R. Hjelm

On the second day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, friends from the NATO nations sent up to 18,000 weapons to the citizenry to use. There are citizens that were willing to fight to the last drop of blood. This has caused the killing of many young, inexperienced Russian soldiers – with hundreds, maybe thousands of…

Editorial: Don’t give school kids dirty books

March 3, 2022

America used to enforce its obscenity laws. Now, obscenity is so prevalent, that enforcement would fill up country jails with violators. But the public has the expectation that public schools won’t expose impressionable material to the students. A student would be disciplined for saying the “N-word”, or for not wearing a mask at school or…