The U.S. is still poking the eyes of the Kurds in Iraq for their independence referendum with the State Department declaring the Kurds’ vote is “illegitimate” and that America opposes an independent state for the Kurds. Continue reading
Category Archives: National
The Opioid disaster: Who benefits
By Jane M. Orient, M.D.
The opioid crisis in America is real, it is lethal, and it may be killing the nice family that lives next door to you.
More people are dying of opioid overdoses than died of AIDS at the height of the epidemic. The death toll is nearly twice that from global terrorism. Continue reading
Attack in Las Vegas at concert Sunday
By Staff Report
Las Vegas Harvest Festival moments before shots rang out. Shooter’s hotel shown behind stage. Photos: DailyMail.com
Updated: Civic authorities are reporting this morning that over 527 people have been injured and transported to hospitals and over 59 murdered by a gunman firing automatic weapons from the 32 floor of a hotel into a concert crowd estimated over 20,000 in Las Vegas last night. Continue reading
Political coverage on facts at play
By David Arnett, Publisher
1988 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award winners with Hugh M. and Christie Hefner. Print Journalism recipient, David Arnett, is shown far left, back row.
Analysis: National journalists from PolitiFact, the Tampa Bay Times and Poynter are in Tulsa meeting with those who greatly doubt them. Admittedly it was a difficult meeting Tuesday night, but it is clear to friends and foes worldwide that journalism, as we know it, has failed America. Sadly Hugh M. Hefner passed to his final reward Wednesday, but he would have loved the meeting at the Republican Party of Tulsa County offices.
Beyond his hedonism; Hefner promoted the First Amendment and established a foundation with annual awards. I am the 1988 winner of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Print Journalism and Hefner was one reason why I established TulsaToday.com in 1996. Well, that and because the daily newspaper fails so frequently to cover conservatives. Continue reading
Beatification of Father Stanley Rother
By Christopher Chesny, Tulsa Today
The Beatification of Father Stanley Rother of Oklahoma, the first native-born American Martyr, occurred Saturday September 23 in Oklahoma City. The ceremony was the largest Catholic service in the history of the State of Oklahoma, taking place in the Cox Convention Center which filled to capacity of 15,000 with substantial overflow outside the arena. Continue reading