Opinion

Editorial: Wealth redistribution is the goal

August 15, 2019

Watching the Democrat presidential debates, a consistent theme surfaces. Democrats want to take from a segment of America and give it to others. This has been true of the left-wing of the Democrats for decades but this latest batch of candidates unabashedly criticizes wealthy Americans and corporations and promises total care to those who aren’t…

Editorial: The end of single-family homes?

August 15, 2019

Some California lawmakers want to make it easier for residents of that state to live in crowded conditions. Senate Bill 50, by State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would make it legal for any residential property or lot to be converted into a duplex, triplex or fourplex. It hasn’t passed yet but if it does,…

Letter: Drag queens and Whole Foods Market

August 15, 2019 Duane Collins

American Family Action reports that Whole Foods Market is a sponsor of Drag Queen Story Hour events designed to indoctrinate children into transgenderism and homosexuality. Their goal is to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle. Whole Foods Market was a primary sponsor of two Drag Queen Story Hour book readings recently held in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Mayor…

Letter: Mass murders show inhumanity

August 15, 2019 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

The latest horrible mass murders of innocent people in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio, show how inhumane and ungodly some Americans have become. Precious human life had no meaning to the shooters. Their goal was probably to kill and terrorize as many as they could, and they did, and are still doing it….

Editorial: Why build the Gilcrease Turnpike?

August 8, 2019

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) will spend $260,914,456.00 for five miles of new road on the Gilcrease Turnpike project in West Tulsa. Why? That is an incredible amount of money. Who is paying for this? The answer is people who pay taxes and anyone who drives on a state toll road. That includes a new…

Editorial: Fiscal irresponsibility in the Swamp

August 8, 2019

The federal budget is out of control. Actually, there is no federal budget but just a series of “continuing resolutions” that contribute trillions of dollars to the national debt without any accountability. To his credit, Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, introduced the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act. Part of the reason that President Trump and the Republicans…

Editorial: Clamping down on free speech

August 8, 2019

To secularists, it should be illegal to hold an opinion opposite of theirs. Academics that championed free speech 30 years ago are now trying to stifle dissenting views on campus. Since 2005, Professor Eric Thompson taught sociology at Moreno Valley College. Twice, he won the “faculty of the year” award as voted by students. He…

Letter: Our disrespect for human life is the root of mass shootings

August 8, 2019 Peggy Burgess

Another mass shooting, Why? We have now suffered more mass shootings. This time the shooting was in a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas (and in Dayton, Ohio.) Why are we witnessing mass shootings? I believe the root cause of the increase of mass shootings is not mysterious. In 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…

Letter: Lunacy of the left is now on display

August 8, 2019 Duane Collins

The lunacy of the left was in full display once again July 31 and August 1 when all twenty of the Democratic presidential candidates participated in their second debate. Every Democrat presidential candidate told us “climate change” is the biggest threat to this nation. Some even claim this planet will be destroyed in ten to…

Editorial: Have a happy sales tax holiday!

August 1, 2019

It’s nice to have a holiday in August. Oklahoma’s sales tax holiday is this weekend. In their collective wisdom, the Oklahoma Legislature passed Senate Bill 861 during the 2007 Legislative Session. Conservative lawmakers were tired of reports of Oklahoma shoppers driving to Dallas during the Texas sales tax holiday. Everyone is a winner with this…