Opinion

Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter from Catholic League President Bill Donohue to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

Dear Commissioner Manfred:

As president of the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, I would like to commend you for your new-found interest in policing human rights in the United States.

While your objections to the voting reform law in Georgia are baseless, let’s assume nonetheless that you have a genuine interest in alleged violations of human rights.

In 2016, Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby stressed to members of Congress that there “are no reservations in Oklahoma. People from many backgrounds are neighbors who live, work, play and worship together.” Anoatubby said this created “a sense that we all share in a common destiny in our communities.”

Today, “common destiny” has been shattered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt decision, which held the Creek Nation’s reservation was never disestablished. Instead, crime victims of all races are seeing claims of tribal sovereignty translate into justice denied.

During his long life, Winston Churchill suffered several indignities. He was dismissed from his position as the head of the Royal Navy in 1915 because of the disastrous defeat Anglo-French forces endured at Gallipoli during World War I.

Happy Easter!

Republican U.S. Sen. James Lankford told some stories during his stop in El Reno last week that if they weren’t related to the federal government would be difficult to believe.

Lankford said the recent trillion-dollar COVID relief package was “not about saving lives” but about handing out money.

He mentioned a USDA loan program in which funds of up to $2 million could be borrowed by anyone and then forgiven up to 120 percent with one stipulation, the borrower could not be white.

Each of us as individuals would probably find it a fairly easy task to define what patriotism means to us, and in various geographic locations, many of the definitions would look very similar.

However, today we would also find in various geographic locations, the definition would look very different if there was a definition at all.

What do Pepé Le Pew and a high school student in Las Vegas have in common? Both are targets of adherents of Marxist-derived “critical race theory” and its offshoots — and many Oklahomans could soon join them.

Pepé Le Pew drew attention when a New York Times columnist, soon joined by other critics, complained the cartoon skunk “normalizes” rape culture.

That the female cat in the cartoons is always fearfully, frantically trying to escape Pepé’s embrace is proof, they say.

On March 2 - the late Theodor Seuss Geisel’s 117th birthday - Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that, sometime last year, it ceased publishing/licensing six of the popular author’s children's books which “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

Cue woke approval, deplorable outrage, investor interest and low-information reader fear, all of which are good for business.

As I write this on March 9, Dr. Seuss titles constitute 10 of Amazon's top 25 “Best Sellers in Children's Books.”

Last week, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives put forward their highest priority legislation with introduction and passage of H.R. 1.

On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX into law.

This landmark legislation had one goal in mind: to protect women from sex discrimination in all federally funded school programs, including sports.

Because of the access to funding and opportunity this historic legislation created, there has been a 545 percent increase in the number of women playing college sports and a 990 percent increase in the number of women playing high school sports.

I hear a lot about white privilege.

I grew up in Martin County, Kentucky. We were considered one of the poorest counties in the United States.

In April 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his entourage of staff, secret service, media and other politicians swarmed into the county seat of Inez during his war on poverty campaign tour. Johnson and the entourage rode through our town waving and then proceeded on down Route 3, which was less than three miles north of my home place.