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By Jim Holland … in 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior repeated words of the Declaration of Independence, hailing them as a promissory note of American freedom and equality. The reason and cause of the occasion at the Lincoln Memorial
Read moreThirty-six years ago, James P. Carse published a small, fine book, Finite and Infinite Games. As with much thought-provoking books, we need not agree with everything he says in order to glean important insights from it. Often, the ability of
Read moreI was born while the Korean War was raging though I have no memories of it. But, as a child of the fifties, part of the ambience of the times was the public memory of the Red Chinese hordes
Read moreMost of the best winter athletes in the world are arriving in Beijing this week to pursue glory and gold medals at the Winter Olympics, which opens Thursday. Injuries might keep a few stars away, COVID has already hit
Read moreEarlier this month the Interior Department’s Board of Geographic Names voted unanimously, 15-0, to change the name of Mount Doane in Yellowstone National Park to First Peoples Mountain. The change was part of an ongoing program to remove
Read moreHon. Sens. Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. Senators: So, you have once again shown the world how important you are by effectively killing voting rights legislation. You must be breathing mighty heady air as you
Read moreThat Dahm fool from Broken Arrow is at it again. That’s right, Republican State Sen. Nathan Dahm, who is also challenging Sen. James Lankford in the GOPQ primary this year, has been busy filing publicity-grabbing bills to display his
Read moreThe new year has seen much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Oklahoma. On Jan. 3, twenty-year-old college freshman Caleb Williams announced that he was entering the NCAA’s transfer portal, which could see the young quarterback leave the University
Read moreFor more than 60 years, I have remembered a historical tidbit about the Inca civilization of South America. I might have picked it up reading Realm of the Incas by Victor W. von Hagen. That was one of three books published
Read moreAmong the ways I amuse myself is by writing songs (“that no one ever shared”). I also turn that attention to putting my words to other people’s music – “Love Is Blue,” the waltz from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
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