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Down at the goal line. Both teams tensed. The snap to the quarterback. The line and a blocking back head right. The QB sticks the ball into the belly of the back following his blocker – and pulls it
Read moreGov. Kevin Stitt and Ryan Walters, his handpicked, anti-education henchman, want all Oklahomans to pay for religious indoctrination with public education monies. Some of the first stirrings of American independence arose when some colonists objected to the notion
Read moreSeventy-one, at last count, empty folders among the purloined national archive files retrieved from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Forty-eight – 48! – of those files were marked “Classified.” And those file folders are empty. Who knows what was
Read more…or motivation or helpless surrender did we all, hour by hour, transport ourselves within a generation from the thrill of optimism at Berlin’s falling Wall to the storming of the American Capitol?” “Political scientists have credited Gingrich with playing a
Read moreLabor Day traditionally marks the start of the homestretch of political campaigning. While we could watch with amusement some candidates’ claims of divine endorsements – or at least that of the lower angels of the gun lobby, this year’s
Read moreThe Ptolemaic astronomical system placed Earth at the center of the universe, with the Sun, planets and stars revolving around our special, God-given place in the Cosmos. It was totally wrong, of course, but you could make accurate predictions
Read moreMaybe it’s a lesson lingering from my former boss and political ally George H. Russell. For years, he served as forest practice chair for the Lone Star Sierra Club. Protecting Texas national forests – our Sam Houston National Forest
Read moreSchool days, school days. Time for Oklahoma teachers to dust off their mimeograph machines in preparation for a return to the 1950 educational model favored by Republican leaders – state and national. Thanks to a recent Supreme Court
Read moreLong-time University of Oklahoma assistant football coach Cale Gundy resigned over the weekend after repeatedly reading a racial slur aloud from a player’s iPad during a film session last week. A member of the Sooner staff since 1999, Gundy
Read moreSome of our profoundest realizations are quite simple. Philosopher Paul Weiss points out: “What is possible for the acorn depends in part on what is possible to the soil, and what is possible to the soil depends in part
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