Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Speak up and stop the lynch mob

By Dan Hannan

Sir Tim Hunt

Professor Sir Tim Hunt had won every honor in his field, from Fellowship of the Royal Society to the Nobel Prize. But last month, the pioneering biochemist was dismissed from his post at University College, London (UCL). Why? Because, speaking at a lunch to celebrate female scientists in Seoul, he had introduced his remarks with a clumsy joke about finding it hard to work with women in the laboratory because he fell in love with them and they cried.

One of the women present, a lecturer called Connie St Louis, complained on Twitter about his “sexism”, triggering the usual lynch mob. By the time the professor had returned to London, his career lay about him in broken shards.

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Warning to America in dessent

By Justice Antonin Scalia

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.

The substance of today’s decree [Same-Sex Marriage Ruling] is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance.

Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.

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Dr. Carson wants to heal, unite Americans

By Dr. Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Ben Carson, SRLC. Photo: Greg Duke, Tulsa Today

Opinion: Physicians from North Carolina, along with some from around the country who were in Raleigh for a meeting, had a unique opportunity to chat with Dr. Ben Carson last week. We heard some original ideas—and some facts that all presidential candidates should be talking about but apparently don’t dare.

It’s not just the $18 trillion national debt, he says—but the 10 times greater load of unfunded liabilities—promises the federal government has made but cannot possibly raise the revenue to fulfill.
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To ‘never forgive’ CNN?

By Staff Report

Fredricka Whitfield, CNN

John Nolte with Breitbart.com analyzes what he calls, “CNN’s long, sordid, ugly, dishonest hate campaign against America law enforcement [that] finally went too far, even for CNN, when weekend anchor Fredricka Whitfield gushed over how ‘courageous and brave’ it was for a man using an armored car to launch an attack against the Dallas Police Department Headquarters early Saturday morning.”

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Prevent enforcement of ‘stupid, pointless regulations’ without changing the law?

By The Blaze

Charles Murray appears on The Glenn Beck Program June 3, 2015. (Photo: TheBlaze TV)

Harvard University-educated political scientist Charles Murray says there is a way to prevent the enforcement of “stupid, pointless regulations” without changing the law. As he sees it, a large fund needs to be established to vigorously defend those who run afoul of the regulations, eventually creating an environment where bureaucrats are more selective in their enforcement.

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