Opinion

Editorial: A key to attracting new business

February 28, 2019

Thousands of people and businesses are leaving New York State and relocating to Florida. Likewise, tens of thousands of businesses and residents are exiting California for Texas. Why? The answer is simple. People and businesses are tired of the confiscatory tax rates in New York, California, Connecticut, Illinois and several other “progressive” states and are…

Letter: America needs to repent of sins

February 28, 2019 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

Vice President Mike Pence’s recent visit to honor Jewish Holocaust victims at Auschwitz reminded me about America’s still ongoing inhumanity and disrespect for human life. We are shocked about how Nazi Germany, under Hitler, became so inhumane that they murdered millions of God’s elect-Jewish people, trying to exterminate them. They displayed total disregard for…

Editorial: Protect constitutional gun rights

February 21, 2019

Why did the Founders of America embed the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? They understood the threat that came from a centralized federal government that could easily suppress an unarmed populace. The Second Amendment is the teeth that insures adherence to the First Amendment rights of free speech,…

Editorial: ‘Bring on the Clowns’ – radical Democrats to run for president

February 21, 2019

If you’re a Democrat, the circus is about to come to town. In 2016, at least 17 Republicans ran for president following eight years of the Obama Regime. The Democrats made sure that only two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, would have serious consideration. For 2020, it looks like the Democrat Party will have…

Letter: Oversight board is not necessary

February 21, 2019 Duane Collins

Tulsa Mayor G. T. Bynum is considering the establishment of a citizen’s advisory board to provide oversight of the Tulsa Police Department (TPD). The mayor says staffing for this board will cost the city about $500,000 per year. This proposal is being driven by activist groups who believe Tulsa law enforcement personnel have not acted…

Letter: Truth about the ‘Green New Deal’

February 21, 2019 Kevin Avera

Here is the evil truth about the “Green New Deal.” This is not some simple basic plan to implement a cleaner, lower-emissions policy into our future lives. Don’t be fooled. This is a sword aimed right at the heart of America. It seeks to : Destroy the aviation industry. There are no such things as…

Editorial: Americans sanction infanticide

February 14, 2019

Infanticide. The definition of infanticide is the killing of a child. By definition, children are innocent and not deserving of death. But more and more politicians (mostly liberal Democrats) and Americans are proposing laws that make it legal to abort any child – born or unborn. The liberal lawmakers in New York State were all…

Editorial: Sen. Warren has to apologize

February 14, 2019

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not slow to lie in order to advance her career. Raised in Oklahoma, Warren recently announced that she had taken a DNA test that showed she had “Cherokee heritage.” She doesn’t. The amount of DNA in her results is negligible. But Warren is running for the Democrat nomination for president…

Editorial: More tax to benefit Downtown

February 14, 2019

Mayor G.T. Bynum and the Tulsa City Council can raise taxes or fees without any measurable response from the public. A recent example is the raising of the hotel tax by 3 percent for hotels with more than 110 rooms. There seems to be two criteria for these tax increases: they have to be approved…

Letter: Trump blasts late-term abortions

February 14, 2019 Michael Rachiele

It was so very pleasing to hear President Trump mention in the State of the Union Address that our nation has to take a stand against late-term abortion. “There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. …