Commentary
Nathaniel Batchelder
Oklahoma City residents Nancy Zorn and Stefan Warner are among several members of the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance arrested for nonviolently protesting construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Opposition to the pipeline and development of the Canadian tar sands is based on a long-range view of tar sands development and its threat to sustainability on earth.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
How did America become a nation with 440 billionaires politically concerned mostly with tax cuts allowing them to keep or increase their wealth? What happened to valuing the public good and social responsibility, the principle that all of us, especially the fortunate, should contribute to a society supporting everyone’s possibilities for education, opportunity, access to some kind of health care, a better life for themselves and their families?

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
In 2000, George Bush took the White House with 48 percent of the popular vote and 271 electoral votes. He cut taxes and waged war on Iraq.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
The decisive victory of the Obama- Biden ticket is prompting petitions in many Southern states urging secession from the United States. The idea merits consideration.

Commentary
Nathaniel Batchelder
Thinking about the Nov. 6 elections, it is clear to me that we the people must stand in the gap to reverse America’s drift toward becoming a nation and government of, for and by the few doing very well, while the many struggle merely to get by. The stakes are daunting.

Commentary
Nathaniel Batchelder

A recession is no time to cut taxes.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Regarding Clifton Adcock’s “The debt deal” (News, Aug. 10, Gazette):

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
The Rev. Steve Kern’s Commentary (“Counterpoint: Soul concern,” June 22, Oklahoma Gazette) restates the belief shared by his wife, Rep. Sally Kern, that homosexuality is the sin that will bring down America for having displeased God.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Religion says God created everything. Science cannot refute that. Science describes what happens in the world, correcting its errors as it pursues accuracy.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Everyone who believes in God knows God created everything. Does anyone believe God could not have created life through the process of evolution? Overwhelming evidence indicates that evolution is what happened. Those with a conflict can simply say, “God created life on earth, and this is how God did it.”

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Some argue that Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a deranged individual and that violent political speech had nothing to do with the murders. Perhaps, but shortly after the health care reform vote, which she supported, somebody jumped a gate and smashed the front door of her office.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Sometimes, a single decision can start ripples spreading through a whole society, bringing about change in consciousness that affects tens of thousands.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Building a world where every person has a reasonable hope for life's most basic rewards " access to education, health care, clean water, clean air and safe food " calls for working together, not dividing in fear and anger.

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
I love the things government does with my taxes that support firefighters, police, public education, public libraries, safe drinking water, sanitation and sewage treatment, airline transportation safety, inspection of meat, pure food and drug laws, interstate highways, railroads, repair of streets ...

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and others on Fox Radio encourage listeners to blame our wrecked economy and job loss on liberals, environmentalists, Hispanic immigrants and others "¦