Opinion

Letter: Dems won’t stop killing babies

March 12, 2020 Duane Collins

As inconceivable as it may seem, on February 25, Senate Democrats refused to authorize life-saving medical assistance to babies who survive a botched abortion. Instead, they decided to let the baby lie unattended until their tiny heart stops beating. Senate Republicans put forth Senate Bill S.311, entitled “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” making it mandatory…

Letter: Justice Gorsuch makes reforms

March 12, 2020 Catherine White

Neil Gorsuch has only been on the Supreme Court for a short while, but he recently ignited the fire of liberty and broke 40 years of precedent when he, all alone, refused to join the SCOTUS “cert pool.” The cert pool was established in 1973 during the early days of the Burger Court, in order…

Editorial: Legalized abortion for 47 years?

March 5, 2020

Prior to the Civil War, there were three primary schools of thought about slavery. One was to maintain the status quo due to economic impact that freeing the slaves would create. Another group thought that the institution of slavery could be whittled away at and slowly it might be done away with. A third group…

Editorial: Bernie Sanders is a real socialist

March 5, 2020

Will the nation’s Democrats really nominate Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed Socialist Democrat, for president of the United States? Here’s Sanders’ “vision” for a socialist America: He wants to give blanket amnesty to every illegal alien in our country and to handcuff America’s border control officers when they try to enforce the existing immigration laws….

Editorial: Protection needed for girl athletes

March 5, 2020

Girls in Boise, Idaho, are fed up with having to compete in sports with boys pretending to be girls. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is working to help ensure fairness for girls there who compete in interscholastic sports. Ray Hacke, one of PJI’s Pacific Northwest-based staff attorneys, testified before the Idaho House of Representatives for…

Letter: DNC is promoting humanism

March 5, 2020 Duane Collins

In August 2019, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) passed a resolution praising the values of “religiously unaffiliated” Americans, claiming that they were the “largest religious group within the Democratic Party.” The resolution, which was unanimously passed at the DNC’s summer meeting on August 24 in San Francisco, was championed by the Secular Coalition of America…

Editorial: Yes on Trump, no on Sunday booze

February 27, 2020

On Super Tuesday (March 3), vote yes for President Donald Trump and no on opening liquor stores on Sunday. President Trump has exceeded all expectations in many areas. Perhaps his greatest impact is the appointment of federal judges who follow the U.S. Constitution rather than progressive politics. Trump is attacking our bad trade policies. Even…

Editorial: Democrats push progressivism

February 27, 2020

The plan for Oklahoma is not much different for the Oklahoma Democrat Party than it is for the national Democrat Party. According to state Democrats, here’s what they want to see enacted in Oklahoma. Expand welfare through Medicaid. Have the government lower drug prices. End the cash bail system. Release more “non-violent” prisoners. Reduce court…

Editorial: Transvestites and Ocasio-Cortez

February 27, 2020

Who are the leaders of the Democrat Party? What are their values? U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, is endorsing men who dress up like women and parade around on cable television. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the infamous “Squad,” is “pledging her allegiance to the ‘drag’” in a video promoting some new episodes of Ru…

Letter: Woody Guthrie was wrong on land

February 27, 2020 Joseph G. Glenn

The late Woody Guthrie sang, This Land Is My Land. The question I have always had is: “Woody, what are you going to do to improve the property or to maintain the property? That is what the homesteaders of the past found out. Owners of a “stake” were required to improve and maintain the property…