Oklahoma is leading the way to hold corporations accountable for their role in opioid distribution.

Ace has the story here.

Little girl probably saved the lives of her father, herself, and who knows how many others!

Ginger Adams Otis reports in the New York Daily News an incredible story about a seven-year-old girl unbuckling her seat belt in the back seat of her father's Lexus, jumping into her father's lap, and driving the car. Dad was passed out on opioids, as the car was driving in rush hour traffic. An ambulance was right behind them and saw the whole thing. The EMT crew drove the ambulance just in front of the little girl and she bumped into the ambulance, thereby coming to a stop. Read more here.

Where are Christian leaders in Europe and America?

Tucker Carlson's show last night focused quite a bit on the world's Christians. Where are our Christian leaders? Why have they not spoken out against the killings in Egypt on Palm Sunday? In Europe from 2010-2015 there were 5.6 million more deaths than births among Christians, while Muslims increased. Now our globe is 31% Christian, and 24% Muslim, with Muslims gaining and Christians dropping.

Tucker also is focusing all week on America's opioid problem, which is the worst drug addiction crisis in American history. Opioids kill 91 people per day in America. 4 out of 5 addicts started with prescription painkillers. 3310 people in Ohio died of heroin overdoses in 2015.

Author Christopher Caldwell reports that it escalated in the 1990s when drug companies like Purdue lobbied for the treatment of pain relief as a "human right." The Sackler family that owns Purdue have become billionaires. There are opioids called fentanyl being produced in Mexico and China that are extremely dangerous.

Here is last night's Tucker Carlson show.

Our opioid epidemic

Is our opioid epidemic funded by the federal government? Do pharmacies provide people with opioids without a doctor's prescription?
This problem has "flowered" during the last seven years of the Obama administration. Purdue Pharma is the main producer of OxyContin. It is owned by one of the richest families in the country, the Sackler family, which is worth over $14 billion, according to Wikipedia.

Because they are big donors to both parties and to the Clinton Foundation, no politician is standing up and confronting them for profiting from all this misery and death. That is the question Tucker Carlson asked Democrat Tim Ryan, who represents a rural Ohio district that has had many deaths. The Congressman avoids answering Tucker's question. Ryan is for "sitting down." Tucker asked Ryan why he has not proposed penalties on doctors who overprescribe opioids or patients who misuse or people who are profiting from a scourge that is killing thousands of people.

I wish Tucker would have asked the congressman how much money he received from the Sackler family.