Opinion

Letter: Spirt of fear

February 3, 2022 Cliff R. Hjelm

The Spirit of fear that has taken over with millions of people over this COVID-19 virus has caused more problems than if we had reacted as we have always done with our annual flu virus. It has caused churches to close, businesses to bankrupt, national politics to be controlled by incompetents and dozens of other…

Editorial: True justice is being denied under the McGirt Decision

January 27, 2022

Justice is being thwarted by the McGirt decision. Recently, a man came home and was horrified to find his two 5-year-old Boston Terriers dead or near death. His neighbor’s two German shepherds had busted through a six-foot privacy fence and entered his house through a doggy door while he was away. Then they attacked his…

Editorial: Atheists, not Satanists, are using Satan to end school Bible clubs

January 27, 2022

Atheists are using a false ruse of worshipping Satan in schools to eliminate Christian groups and their influence. In Moline, Illinois, atheists are using a ploy to disrupt schools and prevent the exercise of free speech that involves a Christian viewpoint. In 2001, a Supreme Court ruling, Good News Club v. Milford Central School District,…

Editorial: Don’t expect any real action on abortion in the upcoming session

January 20, 2022

The Oklahoma Legislature has a chance to strike a blow against legalized abortion in the upcoming session in February. But it won’t happen. There are courageous Republican lawmakers, like Sen. Nathan Dahm of Broken Arrow, and Rep. Tom Gann of Inola who fully appreciate not only the base immorality of abortion but the unconstitutionality of…

Editorial: The hidden, rising death toll in the United States is revealing

January 20, 2022

One category of deaths in America is up 40% from pre-pandemic levels according to a report by Margaret Menge, a contributor to The Center Square, in Indiana. And the category is not seniors but Americans ages 18-64 – working-age people. “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history…

Editorial: NBC’s fake news says boys acting as female athletes have no edge

January 20, 2022

The fake news narrative for NBC News is that sex changes are not only possible but that anyone who takes the Biblical view that you cannot change your sex is mistaken. And in a recent report, NBC cites people who claim that there is scant scientific evidence that “transgender athletes” – specifically men or boys…

Editorial: Gundy, Stoops show true character

January 13, 2022

Congratulations to Coach Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State football team. They were within a whisker of a Big 12 Championship and they pulled off a stunning upset victory over storied Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Day. And thanks to legendary coach Bob Stoops, who stepped in as an interim head…

Editorial: No apologies for liberal lies

January 13, 2022

People want Rachel Maddow of MSNBC to apologize for the lies she told about the vaccine for the Chinese coronarvirus. Maddow has insisted that the COVID-19 stops the virus completely and stops transmission of the deadly disease. On March 29, 2021, Maddow said on the air, “Now we know that the vaccines work well enough…

Editorial: Liberals getting fed up with crime

January 13, 2022

Crime is so bad in San Francisco that even die-hard liberals are wanting to reverse the so-called “justice reform.” San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin reacted negatively when San Francisco Mayor London Breed began a policy to expand police funding and to declare a state of emergency in the Tenderloin District, where crime is raging…

Letter: Truman did what was right

January 13, 2022 Cliff R. Hjelm

President Harry Truman was not “voted out of office.” In 1952, he became so unpopular because of The Korean War, called a Police Action, the Truman war. He knew he would never be re-elected. The Republicans chose the popular General Eisenhower (Ike) who campaigned on the slogan “I will go to Korea” and he won…