We have survived into the second week of President Trump’s America and to say this has been a newsworthy few days is an understatement. In just over one week there have been over a dozen Presidential Executive Orders including some that impose unconstitutional overreach on specific segments of the population. Through it all, the President…
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New year, new era, newspeak
Regular readers may have noted that I have on occasion made the statement “let it never be said we do not live in interesting times.” I will now add to that particular train thought to never let it be said that America is not unique among nations. The USA is indeed the occupant of a…
Continue ReadingLines of battle are drawn
It has been quite an eventful week of happenings, some wonderful, some expected and some extremely awful in the nation as well as along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. I have been biding my time waiting for things to evolve before offering my meager contribution to the discussion. Over the past…
Continue ReadingAdults reading their awkward teenage diaries
It may be a little known fact outside this most conservative corridor of Old Route 66 but there is a thriving community of aspiring story tellers, budding comedians and stand-up comic artists in my beloved home town. The Comedy Parlor in Tulsa’s Blue Dome district played host to OK, So Tulsa Storyslam Saturday evening for…
Continue ReadingBill Maher packs the Brady
As I have stated before on this blog, there are many enclaves, organizations with frequent social functions and community events that make life for liberals along this most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 bearable. Saturday evening was a classic example of what underscores that sentiment. While The Big Lebowski was being shown to an open…
Continue ReadingThe only wall we need
It is often said that this most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 is the buckle of the Bible Belt and I will personally vouch for that description. Yes, evangelical Christians comprise a majority of citizens in the Sooner State and as a voting block they are largely the ones responsible for electing the conservative…
Continue ReadingMaking way for the Bern Unit!
Have you ever stood in a line and waxed philosophical at the length of it? I found myself doing that very thing last night. The most conservative segment of Old Route 66 had a visit from Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders got to visit some of our local cultural venues like the Woody…
Continue ReadingRefugees: a personal testimony
I was going to save this particular subject for an upcoming anniversary of a proud moment and defining event in my own life. However, because of all the media-facilitated scaremongering by political demagogues and aspiring Presidential candidates, I simply could no longer wait. I think that what is being broadcast by the media sound chamber is as fundamentally wrong as it is offensively irritating. Am I out of line to wish…
Continue ReadingEmbracing the right to not get shot
The Constitution of the United States is a beautiful document not so much for its literary elegance but more for the ideals it embodies. In short it is the heart, soul and character of a grand experiment that is still in progress. As the next election cycle heats up it seems that there are a…
Continue ReadingConservatism’s not-so-finest hour
It has been a week and a few days of heavy news much of which is still evolving which accounts for such a tardy post on the subject. Yes, it has been a time of a Papal visit to America and of a Presidential candidate’s visit to Oklahoma, and of the resignation of the third office in line to the Presidency. …
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