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Category: Editorial

Independence – and governance

July 3, 2023April 8, 2024
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”           Thomas Jefferson inspired

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I have yet to get comfortable with the label facist.

June 26, 2023April 8, 2024
Jim Holland
Climate Crisis, Editorial

Has something to do with the back of a Mercury dime. And that symbol points toward e plurbis unum.  The blow back and suppression of climate change research findings is about making money. Just normal Republican business. Persons whose income

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Breathless – not in a good way

June 26, 2023April 8, 2024
Gary Edmondson
Editorial

          During my hermiting days in Woodward, I would catch a weather report about an approaching cold front and hie myself out to Boiling Springs State Park, scramble through the underbrush to a high spot and just wait for the

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OETA survives Stitt’s opposition

June 20, 2023April 8, 2024
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Let’s say something nice about Republicans. No, not those still defending the bigoted,  misogynistic fascist who tried to overthrow our republic.           But, last month, the Republican-dominated Oklahoma Legislature introduced Gov. Kevin Stitt to the notion of separate branches

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Whataboutisms

June 17, 2023April 8, 2024
Jim Holland
Editorial, National Politics

The constitution begins with these words, “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility…”.  I am pleased that the preparers listed domestic tranquility third in the list of

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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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