Collateral damage. Booming economy. The price we pay for doing business. These were sentiments expressed by certain parties in the course of the documentary film, Oklahoma Shakedown. Film maker Taylor Lee Mullins was on hand with one of the activists appearing in his film, Angela Spotts, at Circle Cinema on Tuesday evening for a free…
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The 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 ReadingFeeling the axis tilting leftward
It has been a week since the World learned the news of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I have purposefully waited until after his his memorial service this weekend before weighing in on the implications presented by his sudden absence on the Court. As with the death of any respected public official…
Continue ReadingA precarious house of cards
We are barely a full month into 2016 and it is already shaping up to be a rough year to be a Republican in Oklahoma and the rest of the nation. Forget the mess that somehow qualifies as the Republican Presidential Primary. Closer to home, our Sooner State GOP-led legislature is looking at managing government…
Continue ReadingGOP economic and foreign policy: World American Realignment (WAR)
When your only tool is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
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 ReadingSteeped in the privilege of the loyalty oath
Anyone in the over 40 demographic who pays attention to politics likely still has vivid memories of the 2004 Presidential campaign. That particular year holds a special significance for Yours Truly as that was when I actually got down off the fence and chose sides by joining a political party for the first time in…
Continue ReadingBenghazi, Planned Parenthood and the point of diminishing returns
Much has happened in America this past week in spite of the fact that inside the Beltway our government, specifically the GOP-led House of Representatives, is languishing in indecision. For a political party to have such overwhelming success during a midterm election a year ago, they sure have had a disproportionate degree of difficulty getting…
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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