For all the bluster and over-the-top campaign rhetoric choking the cable news and radio talk shows this past week, one national organization took a huge step to seriously offer a means to rectify the national crisis of income inequality. Yes, the Democratic Party passed an amendment to its platform calling for a $15 an hour…
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The appeal of a narcissist
The 2016 Presidential campaign is beginning to take shape and those in the political pundit class are formulating their opinions. This is something Yours Truly has been following as you might guess. This past week it was noted by many that the campaign of multi-billionaire Donald Trump has, by any reasonable assessment, reached critical mass. It matters not how annoyed…
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Organizing the grass roots
It was a productive afternoon at the organizing meeting of Tulsa for Bernie Sanders 2016. The Nightengale Theater in Tulsa’s Pearl District was the venue where some 80 dedicated progressive grass roots volunteers met and organized into functional groups for the local Bernie Sanders for President 2016 campaign. The energy and passion that all attendees brought was palpable. In the spirit of playing to each…
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Will’s eternal influence
I don’t believe I have ever mentioned on this blog that the other moniker for Old Route 66 the Mother Road is the Will Rogers Memorial Highway. You know you’ve earned a permanent place in the heart and soul of the nation when the Congress of the United States adjourns in your honor on the day…
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The everlasting specter of Fat Man
Seventy years ago on this day the second of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan, this one on the city of Nagasaki. The sad irony of targeting Nagasaki was that it contained the highest population of Christians per capita in all of Asia outside of the Philippines. In all fairness to Major Sweeney, the pilot of…
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Losing fear of a much maligned label
The 2016 Presidential campaign has taken off and it is hard to keep track of who said what about which and to whom. There is one thing however that has not escaped my attention amid all the hoopla. There appears to be a number of newfound champions of the Middle Class among those vying for the GOP nomination. Apparently…
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Feeling the Bern!
History was made on Old Route 66 tonight along with around 3500 other venues nationwide involving around 100,000 grass roots supporters of Vermont Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. Yours truly attended one of a few Tulsa for Bernie meetings, the one held at the Transport Workers Union Local 514. I along with some 140 other attendees got…
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Welcome registered Independents!
An election is a numbers game. That was the issue on which debate was postponed on May 30th when time expired on the Oklahoma Democratic Party Convention. The ODP reconvened its convention yesterday, July 25th at the Oklahoma City Community College Student Union. Yours truly was an official delegate from Tulsa County. It was a beautiful Saturday to…
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Making Presidential history on Old Route 66!
What a week it has been along this the most conservative segment of Old Route 66! This past Wednesday in the Bryan County seat of Durant in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit that town since Teddy Roosevelt in 1905. Forget the fact that he…
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The Theocratic Republic of Oklahoma?!?
Fallout has been raining down from the June 30th Oklahoma Supreme Court decision banning the Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the State Capitol building in Oklahoma City. It seems Governor Mary Fallin and a few members of the state legislature aligned with her are not happy about not getting their way. The Governor insisted…
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