Here we are facing the winter of our discontent in that ten week period between Election Day and Inauguration Day when the outgoing Presidential administration is wrapping up business and the incoming one is preparing for a successful run. Things have, with a few exceptions, cooled down. We Democrats are still licking our wounds and…
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My take on the outcome of the 2016 General Election
As an Oklahoma Democrat, this is how I view the results of the 2016 General Election in my mind’s eye: I need to update the page on this blog to reflect yet another Presidential election where 77 out of 77 counties in Oklahoma were carried by the Republican ticket. Believe it or…
Continue ReadingWhat a wonderful rainy day for a poll dance
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, history is upon us today as General Election Day 2016 has arrived! I awoke early to a rainy, drizzly but at least not a cold morning. I got ready and dressed and made my way over to my voting precinct, which is literally…
Continue ReadingSprinting down the home stretch
It is the first day of November in election year 2016 and we have exactly one more week until the climax of the most expensive and definitely the most trying and tiring election cycle in the History of the Republic to date. The past sixteen or so months has been a seemingly never ending public…
Continue ReadingDocumentary Film Review: TrumpLand
A mere eleven days before the 2016 General Election, the latest work of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore opened at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema. In TrumpLand, Mr. Moore focuses little on the GOP candidate himself and mostly on the the voters who support him and why. He also thoroughly discusses the history of Hillary Rodham Clinton and…
Continue Reading2016 Oklahoma Ballot Questions: Know the Issues
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, it is mid-October and we are in the home stretch of a marathon election cycle. So much has been said about most of the candidates on the November ballot that there seems little remaining on which to comment. Here in Oklahoma along the…
Continue ReadingLosing our fear of fierce and polished opposition
The 2016 General Election is now a mere eight weeks away and campaign season is getting ginned up full tilt. Having been out knocking doors for a state house candidate, I found most voters on my assigned list had no clue as to who is running for what or what is really going on in…
Continue ReadingShaken to our core: Making the case for regime change
On this Labor Day Holiday when we should be celebrating our working class roots and remembering those who fought, bled and died for the rights of all working people, we here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 are reeling and regrouping from a very sobering weekend. Forget the fact that our beloved…
Continue ReadingWelcome Congressman Castro!
Here we are with some 67 days left until the November General Election and all the Democratic candidates I know, have donated coin to and for whom I have been out knocking doors, all sense a great dissatisfaction with incumbency along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Many were present on Thursday…
Continue ReadingThe appeal of a narcissist—one year later
It was exactly one year ago that I authored a post on this blog to which I have since made frequent reference: At the time there were some sixteen other candidates in the running for the GOP nomination. One year later Mr. Donald J. Trump is the GOP nominee. Most reasonable third party observers…
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