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Walters schools teachers on fascism…

June 13, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Last week State School Supt. Ryan Walters continued his campaign against public education in Oklahoma (there’s an Oklahoma standard for you) by showing “a taxpayer-funded ‘propaganda’ video that educators viewed as a threat to their safety and livelihoods,” according

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Ed Board needs remedial reading…

May 30, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          The attack by Oklahoma Republican theocrats on public education continues apace, with evidence that faulty education might be behind their actions. Last week, in a 3-2 vote, the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board agreed to give state money

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Teachers terrorize Walters with facts…

May 30, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          I’ve never considered myself particularly brave. I’ve never been in a situation where heroic action was required. Granted, I might be braver than those who are younger and larger and appear to be stronger than I am who are

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Republicans are happy hypocrites…

May 16, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The moral disintegration of the Republican Party continues apace. The puzzlement is that party faithful still spout slogans trying to claim moral high ground in the political arena.           Family values?           Their everlasting endorsement of the lying, adulterous,

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Cultural change an inevitability…

May 9, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Hwaet. We Gardena in geardagum, theodcyninga, thrym gefrunon, hu tha æthelingas ellen fremedon.           What? You don’t understand? The opening line of Beowulf is perfectly good English – at least for the Dark Ages. Even experts aren’t sure when it was

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Remember when…

May 2, 2023June 17, 2023
Jim Holland
Editorial

Do you recall the good old days when the leaders of the Republican Party were pro-business, when their lobbies were the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce? When they complained about government red tape and the assault

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Stitt’s immaturity on public display

May 2, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Last week Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt showed Oklahomans what it is like to a have third-grader running the state.           In a snit, Stitt arbitrarily vetoed 20 bills that originated in the State Senate in retaliation for the senators’

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Feedback loops amplify dangers

April 23, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          “In climate science, amplifying feedback loops are situations where a climate-caused alteration can trigger a process that causes even more warming, which in turn intensifies the alteration. An example would be warming in the Arctic, leading to melting sea

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What influence in Middle East?

April 11, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The  U.S. Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessment devotes much space to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, as our main adversaries on the world stage. Along with continued aggression, it warns of stealth attacks via social media to interfere

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Is it news, if unreported?

April 4, 2023June 17, 2023
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          My dormant newspaper juices were already simmering toward a rolling boil over the lousy national reportage – well, the lack thereof – on a story that I thought needed some attention  when an even more egregious case of journalistic

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