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Along with getting eaten alive by chiggers, some of my earliest memories of southern Oklahoma are sitting on the front porch at Addington while older relatives “watched the clouds.” In those days before elaborate weather radars, legions of storm chasers
Read moreAbout 30 years ago, my doctor told me that I needed to lose about 40 pounds. “Tommy, if I lost 40 pounds, I’d be dead.” Regrettably, my subconscious registered his wisdom as a challenge. Instead of losing 40 pounds –
Read moreBefore Donald Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell tried to turn coronavirus relief efforts into an unregulated corporate slush fund; before Oklahoma’s Senator-for-Life James Inhofe miraculously sold stock for a $450,000 profit right after a committee briefing on the economic dangers
Read moreCBS News – Feb. 20: “An Alabama woman said she wished her husband had let her die after the hospital where she received an emergency appendectomy sued the couple over a bill for more than $30,000. KC Roberts and her
Read moreAs sure as an election approaches, you can count on Republicans to trot out meaningless issues to try to excite their base. At the State House, GOPers propose a steady stream of unconstitutional anti-choice laws – without promising to commit
Read moreThe Republican-dominated Oklahoma House of Representatives re-asserted the GOP position of the inferiority of women last week when it passed a bill that would revoke the license of any doctor performing an abortion. This “first meaningful action of the 2020
Read moreOklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt affirmed his loyalties to GOP hate-the-poor policies last week by attending a Washington, D.C., dog and pony show with the president to back a plan to endanger the most vulnerable – and least powerful – people
Read moreJust how ignorant is Oklahoma’s Sen. Jim Inhofe? Or how stupid does he think we are? In his D.C. Digest for the July 21, the Tulsa World’s Randy Krehbiel reported: “U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe extolled the Trump administration’s environmental policies
Read moreTwo related news items from early this month. From The Oklahoma Observer: “That shockwave felt across carbon country was a U.S. Energy Information Administration report that clean energy – for the first time – supplied more of America’s electricity than
Read moreCorporate socialism is the overall guiding principle of Republican economic theory. Design a governmental structure that deifies corporate profits. But, sometimes the pro-bidness biases of Greed’s Own Party become more personal. This begets crony capitalism, which rewards specific individuals with
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