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Mayor Doofus

March 10, 2010

BY KENNY BELFORD
Normally you wouldn’t think much of the political affiliation of any mayor, but Tulsa’s Dewey Bartlett is making the case it matters a lot. So far he keeps revealing unflattering attributes that were legitimate complaints about George W. Bush. He may have inherited problems, which all current mayors across America are facing, but [...]

Reconsidering State-Sponsored Death

March 5, 2010

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER
Addressing the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, Gen. Colin Powell described supposed eyewitness accounts of the Iraqi government’s execution of criminal prisoners with chemical injections. He described prisoners being tied to beds, injected and left to die as onlookers observed their deaths. Powell concluded, “Saddam Hussein’s inhumanity has no [...]

Remembering Paul Thompson

March 4, 2010

BY JAMES NIMMO
Readers and lovers of equality,
Unfortunately, Paul Thompson died this morning [3.4.10] after having a stroke a week ago. Earlier this week he suffered a heart attack as well while receiving care at Integris Baptist Medical Center in OKC.
Paul Thompson was until recently long-time co-chair of OGLPC [Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus], instrumental [...]

Wonders Never Cease

February 26, 2010

BY KAREN WEBB
The entire Oklahoma Congressional delegation voted to get rid of the anti-trust exemption for the health insurance industry [HR 4626].
How did that happen? Even DINO Dan [Democrat In Name Only, Rep. Boren, D-Muskogee] voted WITH the Democrats.
Then, in the Oklahoma House they voted down another Republican effort at getting the government out of [...]

Dr. Beck’s Diagnosis

February 25, 2010

BY KAREN WEBB
I caught snippets of Dr. Glenn Beck’s chalk-talk at the CPAC convention on The Daily Show. I can stomach just so much Beck at a time and, besides that, I suffer from what he calls the disease of the nation, progressivism.
He asked the attendees if they wanted to know where he was educated [...]