It has been another exciting week along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. One historic date that passed nearly unnoticed was the 228th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution which was Thursday, September 17th. I realize I refer to the Constitution often as so many topics I write about somehow relate to…
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Honoring the generators of all wealth
History tends to be cyclical. It is true that the more things change the more they stay the same. Of the issues which confronted the nation’s working people one hundred years ago, many still are relevant despite the many times the World has turned over since. One hundred years ago the fight for the rights…
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It was a productive afternoon at the organizing meeting of Tulsa for Bernie Sanders 2016. The Nightengale Theater in Tulsa’s Pearl District was the venue where some 80 dedicated progressive grass roots volunteers met and organized into functional groups for the local Bernie Sanders for President 2016 campaign. The energy and passion that all attendees brought was palpable. In the spirit of playing to each…
Continue ReadingWill’s eternal influence
I don’t believe I have ever mentioned on this blog that the other moniker for Old Route 66 the Mother Road is the Will Rogers Memorial Highway. You know you’ve earned a permanent place in the heart and soul of the nation when the Congress of the United States adjourns in your honor on the day…
Continue ReadingFeeling the Bern!
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 ReadingWelcome 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…
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Imagine if you will a camp meeting of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and pagans. Focus on that conceptual image for a moment and you can grasp the essence of the fifth annual Oklahoma Freethought Convention. FreeOK 2015 was held on Saturday, June 20th at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa. This is another of those…
Continue ReadingA gutted budget, lofty platitudes and good stuff, too!
Will Rogers once waxed philosophical on the subject of the Congressional budget: “The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.” Oh Will, you have no idea how creative the legislature of your beloved home state has become in paying its bills. Earlier…
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