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LAWTON – Warning against comfortable complacency, Rev. T. Shari Dickerson challenged those at the Comanche County Democratic Party banquet Oct. 13 “to become a beacon of change” and to “continue to do the work” as they work to correct the
Read moreModern Farmer’s Spring cover warned: “The trouble with Trump; no immigrants, no food.” Inside, Brian Barth addressed the obvious fact that most of the crops in this country are harvested by “undocumented Mexican immigrants….Americans avoid these jobs, yet elected a president
Read moreVince Lombardi, the patron saint of modern football, established its credo: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” But, if Lombardi could look around the league he would see sub-par signal-callers on about half the teams – and not because half
Read moreLast week has to be judged a success for Oklahoma Republican legislators. They managed a full week in the big city without one of them getting busted for lewd behavior though Mr. Law and Order, Rep. Scott Biggs of Chickasha,
Read moreIt’s an occupational hazard for all writers. Someone beats you to the punch with the perfect punchline. It happened to me twice recently. First, Egberto Willies, writing for Daily Kos, assessed the current situation in Washington and arrived at “political malpractice.”
Read moreI hope someone someday will explain the financing of OETA, which provides Public Broadcasting System programming for the state. Its fund-raising consists of blatant infomercials for health. wealth and mind healers of all stripes plus regular doses of decade-based music specials
Read moreWandering around the living room a few Sundays back, I saw the KFOR promo for Flashpoint. I stopped, and wondered: Who is Mike Turpen that he has this cool gig of speaking on behalf of Oklahoma Democrats? I mean, I trudged
Read moreBetween Donald Trump’s election and his inauguration in front of that itty-bitty little crowd, I observed similarities in deportment between him and Andrew Jackson, as described by Alexis De Tocqueville in “Democracy in America.” I pointed out De Toqueville’s assessment
Read moreClimate-Change-Denier-in-Chief Donald Trump – who Friday extended federal flood insurance plans to cover his low-lying, forced-to-evacuate Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and who wanted a sea wall to protect Irish properties threatened by rising global oceans – has chosen another apostle
Read moreTwo minutes of the crowd’s “Wows” and lingering, echoed awe. Who would believe a black sun if not witnessed in person? You can make it what you will – from fantasy to science – but you can’t dim our wonder.
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