Letters to the Editor

I was glad to see public credit being given to some of Oklahoma’s social and political activists in Scott Cooper’s “Ax grinders” cover story in the Jan. 6 Oklahoma Gazette. I wonder about the characterization of their collective motives of the ax-grinding variety. Correcting social injustice has nothing to do with vindictiveness or evening out […]

The Dec. 16, 2009, letter in the Gazette headlined “Gas problems” by Jay Hanas requires a response since it contained either inadvertently or intentionally misleading information about the natural gas well-completion process called “hydraulic fracturing,” which has enabled companies like Chesapeake to safely and successfully explore and extract clean-burning natural gas from deep below the […]

I’m writing today because I am curious. Was Greg Horton’s article titled “Okies and Odinism,” page 11 in your Dec. 23, 2009, edition, supposed to be a research news article or an editorial? I ask because either way, it is confusing. On one hand, there is obviously a fair amount of research that went into […]

What a breath of fresh air ushered in when I read Judy Wesselhoft’s Gazette letter (“Kids deserve better,” Dec. 16, 2009) concerning the biggest scientific hoax concerning global warming and Darwin’s theory of evolution. I wonder if those Darwinian professors at the University of Oklahoma can explain these facts: The slant of the earth is […]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they’re not entitled to their own facts: The data is the data. This quote from renowned CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and University of California, Santa Barbara physicist Maria Spiropulu sums up the appropriate response to Judy Wesselhoft’s screed (Letters, “Kids deserve better”) in the […]

In her letter, Judy Wesselhoft (“Kids deserve better,” Dec. 16, 2009, Gazette) claims there is no evidence for evolution, which is completely false. She cites anecdotal evidence of “a number of renowned scientists that have publicly expressed doubt “¦” Evolution is widely accepted in the scientific community as fact. There are heaps of evidence in […]

There has been much talk about the placing of the Ten Commandments monument at our state Capitol: some talk for and some talk against. But have we truly considered the message of the Ten Commandments? That is the issue to be extolled. By way of a quick reminder, the context of the Ten Commandments is […]

Although I wasn’t wholeheartedly opposed to the MAPS 3 initiative, professor Keith Gaddie makes a couple of erroneous assumptions in his analysis (Commentary, “Back to the public space,” Dec. 16, 2009, Oklahoma Gazette): Lower-income Republicans (or Republicans in general) are not economically selfish. It’s more of a “we can’t afford it” movement, during a period […]

Judy Wesselhoft (“Kids deserve better,” Dec. 16, 2009, Gazette) made several statements in her letter that need to be addressed. First she claimed that “Government spends billions of dollars every year promoting evolution.” I am curious to know where this figure comes from. After a brief search on the Internet, I found summaries of the […]

I just wanted to express my thanks for the article you published about Asatru (News, Greg Horton, “Okies and Odinism,” Dec. 23, 2009, Gazette). As a member of the Oklahoma Great Plains Kindred (along with the Asatru Alliance, and the Odinic Rite), Aundrea Grooms is my kinswoman. I’ve known for a bit now that she’d […]