Opinion

Letter: Problems with facial hair

April 30, 2020 Cliff R. Hjelm

Growing facial hair around your mouth is a pride factor that in most cases makes you less desirable for good employment, plus it is a negative for elective office. It is often a distraction, like lettuce stuck between your teeth. It is true that in the presidential election of 1948 between Harry S. Truman and…

Editorial: Democrats to silence churches?

April 23, 2020

The leaders of the Oklahoma Democrat Party pleaded with Gov. Kevin Stitt to not allow any exceptions in his stay home order for churches and religious services. And the Democrats were wanting to curtain the constitutional rights to assemble, for free speech and religious liberty by using the coronavirus as an excuse to control people….

Editorial: Gundy’s optimism draws fire

April 23, 2020

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy is being ripped across the country and in Oklahoma by the liberal news media because of his optimism and his desire to get America back to work. Gundy is one of the best football coaches in the nation and he is candid and outspoken in his contact with the…

Editorial: Sanders’ out; Biden’s problems

April 23, 2020

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he was dropping out of the race for the Democrat nomination for president. Apparently his message of turning America into a socialist state didn’t fly even within the Democrat Party. His departure makes former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive Democrat to face President Donald Trump in November. But…

Editorial: Order to reopen abortion clinics draws lawsuit

April 16, 2020

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Christian communities and leaders filed a amicus brief in federal district court last Monday that supports the Oklahoma governor’s executive order that suspends all elective surgeries, including elective abortions, until April 30 to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Gov. Kevin Stitt’s order exempts non-elective abortions, but some abortionists in…

Editorial: Are we tilting toward socialism?

April 9, 2020

Is the government’s $2.2 trillion bailout for the coronavirus another giant step toward socialism? One clue could be that Sen. Bernie Sanders, an avowed “Socialist Democrat,” voted for it. Everybody seems to think it’s a good idea – even most fiscal conservatives. The government shut down vast amounts of the nation’s economy and caused massive…

Editorial: Freedom of speech in Oregon?

April 9, 2020

The elected officials of Grants Pass, Oregon, have ordered their police to shut up Christians who speak on street corners, who hand out tracts and especially those who hold up signs against abortion. This has been going on for more than two years. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) filed two lawsuits against the City of…

Editorial: The law and Planned Parenthood

April 9, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, most of the country – including Oklahoma – is issuing orders that elective surgery be postponed so that hospital beds and medical resources can be devoted to victims of the virus. U.S. District Judge Charles Goodwin has issued a temporary restraining order to pave the way for Oklahoma abortion clinics to…

Editorial: Disasters challenged America

April 2, 2020

For several weeks following the cowardly September 11 attack on the United States, the churches of America were full of people worried that we were going to war and unsettled on their future. At the end of 1999, millions of Americans were convinced that all of our computers would be rendered useless and our society…

Editorial: Shady report of insider trading

April 2, 2020

The New York Times, which looks to take full advantage of any crisis, has accused U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, of selling stock in front of the coronavirus pandemic using insider information. Inhofe flatly denies the allegation. “The New York Times allegations are completely baseless and 100 percent false,” Inhofe said. “I was not at…