History was made on Old Route 66 tonight along with around 3500 other venues nationwide involving around 100,000 grass roots supporters of Vermont Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. Yours truly attended one of a few Tulsa for Bernie meetings, the one held at the Transport Workers Union Local 514. I along with some 140 other attendees got…
Continue ReadingMonth: July 2015
Welcome registered Independents!
An election is a numbers game. That was the issue on which debate was postponed on May 30th when time expired on the Oklahoma Democratic Party Convention. The ODP reconvened its convention yesterday, July 25th at the Oklahoma City Community College Student Union. Yours truly was an official delegate from Tulsa County. It was a beautiful Saturday to…
Continue ReadingMaking Presidential history on Old Route 66!
What a week it has been along this the most conservative segment of Old Route 66! This past Wednesday in the Bryan County seat of Durant in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit that town since Teddy Roosevelt in 1905. Forget the fact that he…
Continue ReadingThe Theocratic Republic of Oklahoma?!?
Fallout has been raining down from the June 30th Oklahoma Supreme Court decision banning the Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the State Capitol building in Oklahoma City. It seems Governor Mary Fallin and a few members of the state legislature aligned with her are not happy about not getting their way. The Governor insisted…
Continue ReadingA massive political tectonic plate shift
It has been a rough couple of weeks to be a conservative Republican in America. As I sit here writing this my thoughts drift back to what happened in Gettysburg, PA 152 years ago this very afternoon. Members of the GOP, especially the Evangelical wing of the party, must feel like Confederate survivors of Pickett’s Charge. As one rebel…
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