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Counting On Bias And Gullibility

July 26, 2010

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD
As the airwaves have been filled here in Oklahoma with commercials from mostly Republican candidates, some of us have become not only increasingly irritated but also mentally challenged to make any logic or sense out of what we see and hear. Of course, everybody is running against President Obama.
It matters not what [...]

Nuclear Energy Causes Global Warming

July 21, 2010

BY MORTON S. SKORODIN
We need energy to heat our homes and provide electricity for our appliances.
Most commonly in our world, coal, oil, natural gas, and radioactive [nuclear] materials, especially the heavy metal, Uranium, supply our energy.
Radioactive elements that produce nuclear energy do it a certain way – and the same way each time. The basics [...]

Grandiosely Opaque Pontificators

July 19, 2010

BY KAREN WEBB
Asked if GOP obstructionism was enough to inspire voters, Rep. Pete King, R-NY, responded:
“It’s a combination of being against what Obama is for, and also giving certain specifics of what we are for. Having said that, I don’t think we have to lay out a complete agenda, from top to bottom, because then [...]

Living Within Our Means

July 16, 2010

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD
The question of spending versus saving, so frequently discussed in American households across the country in the past two years, now plagues the nation in general. It is now a quandary that politicians all across the land are facing as they debate public policy in the halls of government and in the [...]

Coburn’s Unreality

July 14, 2010

BY RON DU BOIS
At Sen. Tom Coburn’s recent Town Hall meeting in Stillwater, when asked the question so many Canadians ask – “Why don’t Americans want what we have?” – he promptly reeled off all the serious problems of Canadian health care. He said the outcomes are worse in Canada for multiple medical procedures compared [...]