Last month when I signed up for a job to be a poll worker there were positions available for some 400 applicants to serve the needs of all the Election Day voting precincts in Tulsa County. For there to be that great a need for so many is a fairly new phenomenon and one which…
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Messaging misery of miserable messengers
Marketing and sales are two endeavors which are eternally intertwined. Each requires the ability to effectively communicate and both rely on amicable relations with clientele to achieve a desired purpose, that being the sale of a product whether it be a tangible item, a service or an idea contained in either a tacit or actual…
Continue ReadingHalf a century of all-volunteer service
In the prelude to America’s entry into World War II, President Roosevelt signed off on the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 on September 16th of that year. That act of Congress with multiple amendments resulted in the compulsory military enlistment of over ten million American men ages 18 to 44 between October 1940…
Continue ReadingConservatism’s peak of power and influence
We live in a time that is definitely unlike any other. It was not all that long ago that ideas that have or are becoming policy in so many places were dismissed by most as being fringe at best and outright whackjob crazy at worst. In the late 1970’s, certain advisors serving as the brain…
Continue ReadingBuilding the case for a new document
Most of us can remember those halcyon days of our carefree early childhood when we attended kindergarten then first and second grade. We had taken a big step outside our familiar surroundings, ventured into an unknown place and were learning the rules of how to behave and interact with the grownups in charge as well…
Continue ReadingNo recreational MJ for the Sooner State
Opportunities for radical change in the fundamental way a state does business with its citizens and how ordinary people relate to each other occur rarely. It is so very disappointing when such an opportunity is allowed to slip by, especially in light of the knowledge that such a chance to affect change in a major…
Continue ReadingA national tale of dereliction
When we gaze into the collective mirror to see who we are as a people and to admire the reflection representative of our tribe, whatever it may be, we abhor the sight of imperfection. We so often prefer to see only what we want to see and when we do notice the presence of blemishes…
Continue ReadingSuffering the penalty of greed, excess and hubris
It has been said that the effects of alcohol when consumed to excess is its own punishment. A bad hangover may be a justly earned and fitting reward for one individual who, by choice, overindulged in drink. Fortunately for the rest of us who said “NO” to another round or to the bottle entirely, the…
Continue ReadingThe end of the trail?
America has been a grand experiment. The very essence of its ideas were light years ahead of its time when the founders first thought them, publicly stated them and wrote them down on parchment nearly two and a half centuries ago. Democratic self-governance of a nation and nearly all that went along with it was…
Continue ReadingDemanding our right to not get shot
Few things set the United States apart from other nations like the Second Amendment. We may search high and low among other industrialized nations and not find anything in any other constitution that has had as many judicial interpretations guaranteeing any citizen the inalienable right to arm themselves with weapons intended for use only in…
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