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…
How does Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang propose to save the planet? By taking away your automobile. Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change. At a MSNBC climate forum at Georgetown University (where else?) on September 19, Yang said private car ownership as “really inefficient and…
Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang says the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change. At a climate forum at Georgetown University, hosted by MSNBC on September 19, 2019, Yang described private car ownership as “really inefficient and bad for the environment.” He told the audience, “You guys all probably…
Two references, one from the American Nurses Association on vaping and another newspaper article on vaping and sleep deficiency, came to me attention recently. Both articles are saying that E-cigarettes and vapes were supposed to be a safer alternative for smokers. Rather than inhaling toxic byproducts of traditional tobacco cigarettes, smokers breathe in the aerosolized…
It is encouraging to know of government leadership and officials giving heed to action that brings hope and change because of “help from above” being called upon. People search for hope to give their lives meaning in spite of circumstances, hoping things will get better. They place their hope in relationships, jobs, money, assets of…
Tulsa city councilors like to worship at the altar of political correctness. The latest cause is an examination of the 2018 and 2018 “Equality Indicator” reports. According to these studies in 2018, black people were arrested twice as often as white people. And black people were arrested more often than Native Americans. Asians had the…
The assault on Christianity by the Left is being joined by a wave of anti-Semitism. Here’s an example. The New York Department of Education has proposed regulations that would make private schools in that state the “substantial equivalent” of their liberalized public schools. A group called Parents Union for Religious Integrity of Torah Education (PURITE)…
The fake news never stops. The New York Times, in their zeal to destroy U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently published a story alleging him of “sexual misconduct” while he was at a fraternity party when he was a student at Yale. Buoyed by the allegations made by a new book, Democrats running for…
Mayor G.T. Bynum has buckled to public opinion and backed off his plan to put the Tulsa police and their actions under scrutiny by people with a liberal agenda. Good. Bynum has gone back to the drawing board to come up with a scheme that placates radical members of minority groups who think that police…
If you want to stop murder in America’s big cities, target the criminals, not law-abiding citizens. In early September, in a span of about 16 hours, seven people were shot (two died) in different neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore had recorded more than 240 homicides in 2019, according the Baltimore Sun. If that figure reaches…