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Category: Oklahoma Politics

Business model not transferable

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Nearly 100 years ago, John Dewey indentified “the serious and fundamental defect of our civilization” as “materialism, our devotion to money making.” Along with the corollary of “having a good time,” these conditions are “controlled by interest in private

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OU wins fight over looted art

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          In early May, The Netherlands announced the return of seven archaeological objects to Iraq.           In April, the Associated Press reported: “Italian police say they have recovered a 1st century Roman statue that was stolen from an archaeological site

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GOPQ reps push hatred, pollution

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          In the great GOPQ tradition of attacking non-existent problems in order to stigmatize minorities and encourage bigotry, the (not-so-)OK House is pushing the Save Women’s Sports Act, which would ban transgender students from participating in girls/women’s sports from kindergarten (got

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You froze, shoveled; the governor skied

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Editorial, Events, Oklahoma Politics

            It was not Mark Twain, but his pal Charles Dudley Warner, who observed, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Well, that old editor of The Hartford Courant never met Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt.           After declaring a State

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Privateers prefer taxpayer profits

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

            As a sycophantic fan of our twice-impeached former president, it is no surprise that Gov. Kevin Stitt keeps acting as if he alone represents the people of Oklahoma. Having just been knocked down in the State Supreme Court for illegally

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Shady business, shoddy governing

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

            One of the more inane choruses in the Republican’s repertory is their promise to “run government like a business.”           This ignores the very basic distinction between businesses and governments. The goal of any business is to make money. Governments are

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Days of prayer serve Mammon

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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Editorial, National Politics, Oklahoma Politics

          In 1764, in an act of rebellion that earned them hatred from their pious neighbors – and a fine from the theocratic government model of many public Christians today – that Green Mountaineer Ethan Allen and Dr. Thomas Young defied

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Council embraces pandemic inaction

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Inaction speaks louder than words.           Last Tuesday Duncan Regional Hospital President and CEO Jay Johnson made a second appeal  to the Duncan City Council to enact a mask mandate.           According to Charlene Belew’s story in The Banner, Johnson explained that a month

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Little James Paul learns hard lesson

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

            There it was, a perfect attack column, as big as a pumpkin, perched on a tee, just waiting for my Louisville Slugger to smash it to smithereens. I had the ammo. I had the headline (Profile in Cowardice). And then

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Election results not so surprising

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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Editorial, National Politics, Oklahoma Politics

            What did the election reveal?           • Oklahoma is only the second reddest state in the union. That’s a drop from 2016 when we edged Idaho for the top spot. Every county in Oklahoma and West Virginia voted for Donald Trump,

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