Opinion

Editorial: Scammers and the coronavirus

May 21, 2020

Crooks ply their trade even when America is faced with a deadly disease. The Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission has reported almost 4,000 fraudulent claims since the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March. Scam artists are filing unemployment claims to try to trick state officials into sending them cash cards. They file claims for workers who still have…

Editorial: Energy industry under assault

May 21, 2020

The energy industry is getting hit from all sides. First, the Oklahoma Legislature recently raised the wellhead taxes on production of oil and natural gas. You tax want you want less of and this onerous tax was already slowing oil and natural operations around the state. Then the coronavirus hit. Much of America was told…

Editorial: Densification and pandemics

May 14, 2020

Densification is the goal of Tulsa’s city planners. What is densification? That’s where the government steps in and slows or stops urban sprawl. Instead of letting people move to single-family homes in the suburbs, they are pressured into living in high-rise apartment buildings in a tight metropolitan setting. This is why city leaders in Tulsa…

Editorial: Pushing abortion in a crisis

May 14, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who says she “only reads bills after the pass) tried to slip in money for abortion in the recent stimulus relief bill. That didn’t work because word got out. Planned Parenthood incredibly asked for donations of masks and personal protection equipment during the coronavirus pandemic so they could “safely” kill unborn…

Editorial: Making voter fraud a bit easier

May 14, 2020

Elected Democrats beat their chests and complain about “threats to our Democracy” yet they continue to push for changes that damage the security of our elections. And some judges are right in step with their progressive brethren. The liberal Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with the even more liberal League of Women Voters (which years ago…

Letter: Lives of unborn babies are precious

May 14, 2020 Larry Oliver

During this COVID-19 shutdown, the Left has exposed their extreme hypocrisy – they pretend that this is all done to protect human life yet they fight to keep the abortion clinics open. They empty prisons to save the lives of criminals from the virus. It is very important to the Left to save every life…

Letter: Churches should not the take loans

May 14, 2020 Harry Rockefeller

In the April 30, 2020 Tulsa Beacon, Pat Buchanan wrote that the victor in the coronavirus will be big government. In his oped, he discusses the federal government handouts, mentioning the recent $2.2 trillion CARES act. Businesses, nonprofits and people who lost jobs due to this virus are being offered and accepting money from “big…

Letter: False theories from pseudo-science

May 14, 2020 Andrew Dennehy

Many atheists attack Christianity by arrogantly stating that “religion is not compatible with science.” However, true science is simply the outside study of nature which is God’s Creation. Furthermore, throughout history, there have been many fascist dictators who have been known to manipulate the facts of science in order to suit their own agenda. When…

Editorial: America’s faces a meat shortage

May 7, 2020

Where’s the beef? That question could be on the lips of more and more Americans as an alarming number of meat processing plants are closing due to infections of the Chinese coronarvirus. More than 150 of the nation’s largest meat packing plants are located in hotbeds of infection. They represent about one third of the…

Editorial: Leveraging the coronavirus

May 7, 2020

Here is the strategy of the liberal media to defeat President Trump by using the coronavirus to their personal advantage. This includes CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post, the New York Times and most major newspapers throughout the nation. They ignore science to promote the following myths: The coronavirus is going to kill…