Homelessness is up in Tulsa by 10 percent this year. It went up 8 percent last year, according to the Rev. Steve Whitaker, senior pastor and CEO of John 3:16 Mission. Oklahoma has about 4,000 verifiable homeless people. And that number is growing. Why? Unemployment is down. The national economy is the best in decades….
Some Americans – mostly liberal Democrat leaders – are doing their best to rachet up racial tensions in our nation. Every policy decision made by President Donald Trump results in him being called a “racist” on CNN, MSNBC, in the New York Times, in the Washington Post and in the House of Representatives. Similarly, if…
The gambling pact between the State of Oklahoma and the tribes is about to expire. First, it’s gambling, not “gaming.” Gaming makes it sound like a harmless pastime while gambling is a more correct term. You walk into a casino, you most likely will lose money. That’s gambling. When former Gov. Brad Henry and state…
Rain has probably hurt farmers more than the threat of tariffs by President Trump. The President is well aware that when he threatens China or others with tariffs, that could retaliate with their own tariffs and that could have an adverse effect on farmers in America. Trump got a special appropriation to ease that situation…
State officials claim the new cigarette tax increase is working because tax revenues are up and the sale of cigarettes is down. State smokers bought almost 60 million fewer packs of cigarettes during the 2018-2019 fiscal year (July through June) – about a 25 percent drop from the previous fiscal year. And the new $1…
For three straight years, the number of Oklahoma earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or higher has declined and that trend has continued in 2019. While Californians nervously await the next shock, Oklahomans are close to breathing a sigh of relief. The numbers keep dropping and the quakes are lessening in intensity. Part of the…
There are two words that best describes the two debates we’ve witnessed so far . . . appalled and bewildered. Never would I have imagined that twenty Democrat presidential candidates would stand together and make such outlandish statements to the American people – promising, that if they are elected, they will actually implement these horrendous…
Sometimes common sense prevails in the court system. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a World War I-era cross in Maryland did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The justices voted 7-2 against efforts by atheist and secularist groups who for years have tried to wipe any trace of Christianity…
After the U.S. Supreme Court legalized “homosexual marriage,” it was inevitable that forced acceptance of these perverted relationships would negatively impact children. Now, the liberal Oklahoma Supreme Court has made another decision in line with the Homosexual Agenda that grants special rights to nonbiological homosexual parents who get divorced. Acting on a case from Tulsa,…
If you want to see where America is headed in terms of moral decay, look to the West Coast. In Spokane, Washington, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is representing a pastor facing criminal charges in connection with a drag queen event. Pastor Afshin Yaghtin went to a public library in Spokane on June 15, to…