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…
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“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 ReadingSaigon in memoriam
President Nixon’s achievement of “Peace with Honor” with North Vietnam came crashing down with the Fall of Saigon forty years ago this week. Three North Vietnamese Army regiments seized the South Vietnamese capitol virtually unopposed and crashed the gates of the Presidential Palace soon after the U.S. diplomatic contingent evacuated the embassy along with as many South Vietnamese citizens as…
Continue ReadingThe death grip on the death penalty
Death by nitrogen hypoxia. That is the latest modality now legally available to the State of Oklahoma to carry out death sentences. Governor Fallin signed off on HB 1879 last week after it wound its way through the legislature and was placed on her desk. The bill’s author is Representative Mike Christian from HD 93 (South…
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 ReadingAppomattox + 150
One hundred fifty years ago today marked the end of a period of national blood letting. At the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox, Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Federal Army of the Potomac effectively ending what is now known in the parlance of Americana…
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…
Continue ReadingFundamental differences in leadership
Spring has arrived in an odd non-election year which means the major political parties in this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66, are preparing for County Convention in each of the Sooner State’s 77 counties. Being a civic minded soul and an officer in my local precinct, I have begun to think deeply…
Continue ReadingThou shalt have no other gods before the Almighty Dollar!
After his rope-a-dope of non answers to a straight forward question on ABC’s This Week on Sunday morning, Indiana governor Mike Pence revealed his true allegiance to the Eat-their-cake-and-have-it-too lobby. Fallout is raining down amid whipsawing backlash from big business at the Governor’s signing of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act last week. When given…
Continue ReadingSurveying our priorities
Another week has passed in which I had to restrain myself from blogging before all the pertinent stories evolved. It has been another week of Oklahoma in the national spotlight. On the upside, the Oklahoma Sooners advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Sadly, they were eliminated last night by Michigan State. It was…
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