Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Always move forward

Motivation2If you remember anything from your geometry class in school, it’s probably the fact that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. Moving forward along that straight line always represents the most efficient, productive, and profitable course of action, assuming that you have picked your destination point wisely.

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Is Mexico evil?

Andrew Tahmooressi

Andrew Tahmooressi

America has provided foreign aid, comfort, safe harbor and a promising future to millions of Mexican citizens over generations. Today on the border American Citizens are funding efforts to care for children, stop drug cartels based in Mexico and generally provide for those that wish to leave Mexico and other countries in South America. In return, the Mexican Government apparently feels free to evilly abuse American Citizens.

It may be time to stop doing any business with Mexico – no foreign aid – no tourism – end it all. If they do not respect our citizens then they are not worthy to receive our business or our tax money. This change in attitude is suggested if not demanded by the treatment of Andrew Tahmooressi, an active duty decorated veteran who continues to be held on unjust fabricated charges by the Mexican judicial system.

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Bobbing and weaving on Hobby Lobby

HobbyLobbyStoreThe recent “Hobby Lobby” Supreme Court decision defended the rights of the owners of a company to refuse to fund a health plan that covered abortifacient “contraceptives.” The Hobby Lobby owners argued that such medications violated deeply held religious beliefs. So for now, by a disturbingly close 5-to-4 vote, the Supreme Court has asserted that government has no right to force business owners to violate their conscience—provided that the business is “closely held.”

The response of the leaders of both parties demonstrates why medical decision making and politics are not compatible. It also represents another reason why the federal government should not be involved in health care and why the Affordable Care Act (ACA) deserves to fail.

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Do WE have a Red Line?

WeThePeopleOpinion: Do We, the People, have a Red Line, that when our enemies cross it, we will rise up in defense of our country, our Constitution, and our way of life? Do we have a point at which the destruction of our children’s future will make us take action to stop it? So far, it seems we don’t.

With each passing week, the rate and intensity that our enemies are successfully attacking us seems to increase exponentially. By the way, I am not just referring to our overt Muslin enemies, and our more covert ones like Russia and China. I am also talking about Obama, his “administration”, and the entire Democrat Party.

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