One of the community celebrations that make this the most conservative segment of Old Route 66 habitable took place this past weekend. Yes, the 33rd annual Tulsa Pride celebration attracted thousands to Downtown Tulsa on Saturday afternoon and evening culminating in the Pride Parade. This is an annual festival sponsored by Oklahomans for Equality. Yours truly was…
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Petroleum interests uber alles
Make no mistake about it, when it comes to pet industries of the State of Oklahoma Big Oil & Gas has a firm lock on the top spot. Yes indeed, just last week the small government conservative majority in the state legislature and their rubber stamp governor passed a law banning municipalities from imposing bans on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and…
Continue ReadingAn Oklahoma primary for Independents?
It has been a busy weekend along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66, especially for those of the Democratic persuasion. Friday evening many of the Oklahoma Democratic Party leadership met at the Tower Hotel in Oklahoma City for the annual Carl Albert awards dinner. After all the awards for Activist of the Year…
Continue ReadingMemorializing a wrong and worn out narrative
It was an eventful and amusing week along this exceedingly conservative stretch of Old Route 66 in the run up to the Memorial Day weekend. The justly earned “Tempest in a Teapot” award goes to the local ABC affiliate KTUL for their coverage of a Politico article posted to the Tulsa County Democratic Party Facebook page last…
Continue ReadingArming our public schools
The deeply ingrained firearm culture has expanded yet again, this time to Oklahoma public schools. Governor Mary Fallin signed off on House Bill 2014 earlier this week. This new law authored by freshman representative Jeff Coody of HD 63 (Lawton) is intended to provide an extra level of security by allowing a trained school employee to carry a handgun on school…
Continue Reading“the right of the people peaceably to assemble,”
Three weeks ago I posted about the breaking scandal which has embroiled the Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz and his department. Since then undersheriff Tim Albin has resigned, reserve deputy Robert Bates has been allowed to go on vacation to the Bahamas despite facing charges of second degree manslaughter, Sheriff Stanley Glanz had stated although he…
Continue ReadingThe Oklahoma Standard endures
Like many of my fellow Oklahomans, I have a list of memories of the Oklahoma City Federal Building long before it became the center of the universe twenty years ago for the worst of reasons. Like most other people I know, I never knew its namesake, Alfred P. Murrah, was an old federal judge until…
Continue ReadingPay-to-play law enforcement?!?
Sadly it is not my imagination that my beloved home state and home town cannot seem to stay out of national and international limelight of tragedy and shame. Again, this is one blog post that I have had to stop myself from making more than once since this story broke last week and I may…
Continue ReadingEx-Republicans in charge
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her formal announcement on Sunday that she was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Image by HillaryClinton.com Hillary Clinton, once the President of the Wellesley College Young Republicans, enters the fray with another ex-Republican. Democrat Jim Webb, the former Virginia Senator,…
Continue ReadingThe misery of living in Obama’s America, April 2015 update
Oh, the misery of living under the tyranny of responsible leadership! Are things perfect? Hardly. My question is would anyone care to return to where we were economically at 12:01 PM EST on 20 January 2009? Anyone? Behold where we are now: Obama’s Numbers April 2015 Image by FactCheck.org History will not judge President Obama…
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