Opinion

Letter: Drain the Swamp in Washington

October 17, 2019 Duane Collins

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) allowed drug makers to increase production of opioids even as overdose deaths were skyrocketing, according to a report released September 30th by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General. While opioid overdose deaths grew by 71% per year between 2013 and 2017, the DEA authorized manufacturers to produce “substantially…

Letter: Here’s what Americans will lose

October 17, 2019 Lloyd Wold

“What … have you got to lose?” President Trump’s thought-provoking question in regards to the 2016 election certainly needs to be asked of minorities, once again, in regards to the 2020 election. The proposals for open borders, and all the other things that Democrats want to put in place, to entice people to illegally enter…

Editorial: Going topless in Tulsa?

October 10, 2019

Unelected judges are legislating from the bench and dropping the moral standards in America. The latest nonsensical action was for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver that ruled that overturned a Fort Collins law that prohibited women age 10 and older from the public exposure of breasts. A judge ruled the law was…

Editorial: Government action and fat kids

October 10, 2019

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) Board of Directors is battling obesity in Oklahoma. What? TSET has hundreds of millions of dollars collected from tobacco companies in a settlement with the State of Oklahoma. That over-funded trust is supposed to discourage tobacco use and help victims with medical treatment. But the board passed a resolution…

Editorial: Fox is not that conservative

October 10, 2019

Fox News is not a truly conservative media outlet. It looks like one because of a handful hosts, including Shawn Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and a few others. They are genuine conservatives and they self-identify as commentators, not reporters. But Fox has some very liberal personalities and unfortunately, they tag themselves as “newsmen”…

Letter: The ruling to allow topless women shows our moral slide

October 10, 2019 Duane Collins

Topless women roller skated in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the River Park Trails, at 41st Street and Riverside Drive, on Sunday evening, September 29, 2019. According to KOTV News, Jaq Landers, one of the events co-creators on Facebook, said they were supporting the national “Free the Nipple” movement. Ms. Landers said the idea had attracted more…

Letter: Will famine hit the United States?

October 10, 2019 Dona DeWeese

It was a shock to see the facts unfold before my eyes – even with advance warning. The word that I had heard from the Lord sharply for several years was the word “famine.” Famines were coming here in my nation – in the United States – and around the world. I had not dared…

Letter: Dems try to destroy President Trump

October 10, 2019 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

America has failed to put God first. In so doing, we forgot that “God is love” and that He commanded us to love Him with all our heart, soul and mind. We are to love God because He loves us, and because He formed each one of us in our mother’s womb and gave us…

Editorial: Change in judicial directions

October 3, 2019

If you think that the Oklahoma Supreme Court is unbiased and non-political, you are kidding yourself. Even though many decisions are based on a reasonable view of the law, this court has a track record of twisting their big decisions according to a liberal ideology. The justices, most of whom were appointed by liberal Democrat…

Editorial: Morality and Oklahoma health

October 3, 2019

A report card is in for the health by The United Health Foundation on the health of women, infants and children across the nation and in Oklahoma. The report shows that child mortality and teen suicide rates have risen sharply since 2016 but there has been a drop in the rate of teen births. Here’s…