Home of the Stephens County Democratic Party of Oklahoma
Is fighting government intervention on climate the correct conservative position? Is it even conservative in the usual use of the word? Conservatives persons are risk averse. They hate uncertainty. They attend church every Sunday, insure their home, cars, and life,
Read moreFrom time to time I hear the term “Conservative Solutions” in a context that causes me to imagine somewhere in the archives of the Republican Party or its think tanks there is a set solutions to all of our national
Read moreWhat this country needs is a few good impeachments followed by convictions. The acquittals of Johnson and Clinton in their Senate trials gave impeachment a bad name. (“Political,” I think.) So that conventional wisdom now holds that impeachment of a
Read moreForty-nine years ago, I sat on the fresh spring grass in Nacogdoches, Texas, with alternating redbuds and dogwoods providing the purple and white school colors of Stephen F. Austin State University. It was SFA’s first Earth Day. The event had
Read moreA Defense Department report is titled “Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding.” Guess what it says. We now are well informed about way temperature of the world trend arrow is
Read moreThe US economy again defied expectations in April, as another month of strong hiring and falling unemployment forced experts to reevaluate just how good the economy can get — and how long the current expansion can last. Employers added 263,000
Read moreAunt Ola was the family saint, the one who kept a suitcase packed in readiness to go the aid of relatives in distress. Lying was not in her DNA. So, when she prepared a rudimentary family tree back in the 1950s,
Read moreMonday was the last day for Americans to submit their income taxes: write that check or daydream about that refund. One year in, what has been the effect of Greed’s Own Party’s tax breaks for the rich? “The GOP tax
Read moreSomeone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote this magnificent response. A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally
Read moreOne Republican mantra is their advocacy of “local control,” usually advanced to defend a local government’s efforts to push its brand of religion down everyone else’s throats. But, while it enables bigots to maintain their bigotry, the GOP shies away
Read more