Letters to the Editor

I often disagree with the opinions, observations and positions taken by Professor Kurt Hochenauer in his commentaries that appear periodically in Oklahoma Gazette. This is to be expected because Hochenauer is a self-identified progressive (he used to be a liberal), and I have always been and remain a conservative. However, I do agree with some […]

As a 50 percent Swedish Euro-mongrel, I have been following the ongoing debate regarding Asatru, the ancient religion of The Great White Norse, appearing between the covers of the Gazette. I think the count is now up to one article and three letters to the editor. I haven’t seen so much interest in a topic […]

R. Thompson’s response to my letter (“Get off your soapbox and do something,” Jan. 13, 2010, Gazette) really had me thinking. However, the response came out swinging but didn’t land a punch. In my letter, (“MAPS 3 needs a spanking,” Dec. 30, 2009, Gazette), I was neither for nor against MAPS 3, and I stated […]

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 […]

In response to Robin Leake’s letter (“MAPS 3 needs a spanking”) that made it into the Gazette’s Dec. 30 issue, all I have to say is she is complaining about MAPS 3 and yet she admits to not even voting on the issue? What the heck is that? If you did not agree with the […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]