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We’re back on Earth Time – standard time – and many people are less than pleased. They think we should maintain daylight savings time year-round. Oklahoma is one of 19 states that have passed resolutions or legislation calling
Read moreWell, two months of Black Friday sales finally came to an end Friday – followed by Small Business Saturday and yesterday’s Cyber Monday. Like late night audiences being told when to clap, American consumers have been programmed to spend,
Read moreThe death of former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris Saturday reminds us of his lifelong crusade against wealth inequality in the US. In a speech at the University of Oklahoma in 2014, he noted: “America’s middle class has shrunk
Read moreMathematics advances from the very simple to realms of mysterious erudition with formulas and equations written using symbols that most of us cannot enunciate, much less understand. The most famous equation in modern science is E = mc2 . E stands
Read moreSome folks take advantage of mail-in voting. Those of us who cast ballots during the early voting period or who are voting today can reinforce what everybody but infantile sore losers already know. The American voting system is in
Read moreUnlike us, insects detect ultraviolet light rays. Hawks’ eyesight far exceeds ours. Bears can smell us from afar. We create reality. Some people delude themselves by choosing their illusions. The concerted Republican effort to demonize minorities and the
Read moreJohn D. MacDonald’s savage salvager Travis McGee once observed: “Reality is a curious convention. It is the special norm for each of us. Based upon the evidence of our own senses, we have established our own version of reality.”
Read moreDonald Trump stacked the Supreme Court that relegated American women to second-class citizenship, the Supreme Court that put the health of individual American women at the whim of medically-ignorant politicians – at the whim of politicians and politicizing police
Read moreFollowing his Sept. 5 Q&A session at the New York Economic Club, The New York Times headline claimed that Republican presidential candidate “(Donald) Trump Praises Tariffs, and William McKinley, to Power Brokers.” The subhead continued: “In an address about the kind
Read moreAmerica is not an establishment. It is not even a government of a constitution. It is a process. To remain silent in the face of policies that one believes to be hurting the nation is not patriotism, but moral cowardice.
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