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What Does Dr. Coburn Really Want?

July 13, 2010

BY SHARON MARTIN
When Sen. Tom Coburn questioned Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, he made clear his belief that original intent trumps legal precedent. He seems to know what our Founding Fathers intended when they created the Constitution; he called their intentions “pure.”
The Founding Fathers wanted freedom from oppression. They put their lives and reputations on [...]

BP And The GOP

July 12, 2010

BY KENNY BELFORD
The Republicans may have made a giant mistake. Many prominent Republicans are on record as BP sympathizers, some even issuing public apologies to BP for being asked to pay for the damages they caused. These Republicans have taken the side of a foreign corporation – one of the world’s most profitable corporations – [...]

Who’s To Blame?

July 9, 2010

BY KENNY BELFORD
A large part of the lingering recession was caused by the collapse of the housing market. As I frequent a number of political message board sites it’s common to find wingnuts posting comments railing away about the poor people that got into a mortgage they can’t afford, causing this mess.
They love to blame [...]

Hypocrisy, Commercialized

July 8, 2010

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD
Each new election period we are again bombarded with political commercials. Some of these are OK. They tell information about the candidate and about his/her agenda for the office sought. But even the best made, the most ethical, and the most appropriate political commercials can be tiresome when repeated too often. Yet [...]

And Americans Don’t Want This?

July 7, 2010

Editor’s Note: The following is a letter sent to Ron du Bois, co-founder of Oklahomans for Universal Health Care. He is a regular contributor to The Oklahoma Observer and lives in Stillwater, OK.
BY EMBREE McDERMID
I had an argument with a golf cart over a year ago. I cut my arm and did serious damage to [...]