Opinion

The global establishment press has spilled metric tons of ink trying to paint Canada’s freedom convoy as a gaggle of racist pinheads holding up progress for the heck of it.

In reality, it looks like most of that protest’s participants and supporters are ordinary Canadians who have finally reached their breaking point with vaccine mandates and other attempts to condition their livelihoods on asking how high every time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says jump.

The phenomenon seems to be catching.

To the Editor:

Did you know that recent estimates of the number of homeless children in America reflect that 2.5 million children experience homelessness each year? Or that families now make up 40 percent of the homeless population?

These days, more and more families in Canadian County who never thought they would become homeless are finding themselves without a place to live. More than 200 children are experiencing homelessness between El Reno and Yukon.

I’m a life-long conservative Republican and proud American. Our Republic has survived, in part, because We the People could separate fact from fiction when engaging in political discourse.

Sure, we’ve fought along the familiar lines of left versus right ever since our country’s founding, but these were differences of opinion. We all still agreed that the sky is blue, and the Constitution is the law of the land. However, today some elected officials want to tell you that the sky isn’t blue.

Last week marked 49 years since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that has taken over 60 million innocent lives since its ruling in 1973.

This anniversary reminds us that the fight for life is far from over and that we must use our voice to speak out louder than ever before.

The United States was built on the right to life.

Our Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: the Right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

To the Editor:

Regarding the guest column by Dr. Paul Kengor in the Jan. 19 issue of the Tribune.

I wonder who are the “growing number of advocates” of critical race theory?

CRT is taught as a legal theory in university law schools and nowhere else. CRT is not taught at the K-12 level anywhere in the United States. All you have to do is look through your K-12 children’s textbooks. You will not find CRT.

Here’s a critical question for enthusiasts of critical race theory, particularly its growing number of advocates on the religious left: How did MLK do what he did without CRT?

That is, how did the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. manage to accomplish what he did without critical race theory?

MLK preceded CRT, which began its rise in the 1970s, exploding in American universities still later. King was assassinated in 1968.

A few more questions:

How did Rosa Parks do what she did without this very, very narrow ideological theory known as CRT?

New University of Oklahoma football coach Brent Venables may be the most fortunate man working in a prominent position in Oklahoma higher education.

Venables is blessed to have been hired based on merit, free from the “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) mania imposed on applicants for nearly every other job at OU.

In 2019, OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. told the school’s student newspaper that the “absolute most important thing to me” is to “get it right around diversity and inclusion.”

The 2020 census revealed that Illinois experienced its first population decline since the state first participated in a census in 1810. Illinois’s population decline is not a surprise to anyone who has been watching population trends.

For several months now, state revenues have been rolling in above the estimates, pointing to a bright economic future for Oklahoma.

Last week the state Board of Equalization (BOE) verified the positive fiscal outlook by certifying their preliminary revenue estimate for fiscal year 2023.

We will hit another historic high as they estimate the Legislature could have just over $10.3 billion to appropriate this coming session.

While this is wonderful news, it’s important that we proceed with caution and not spend all of these funds.

Almost three years ago my car trailer was stolen from near Banner.

By putting a $500 reward on social media, it was noticed at a mini storage on Mustang Road. The manager had high resolution pictures of the suspect, his pickup and the tag number. He lived with his parents two miles away.

I thought the two deputies that came over would go pick him up. Doesn't work that way.