Articles Posted in the Blog Category
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‘Great Job, Teach’
BY LARRY STEELE He walked by the camera in his red OU t-shirt, splattered with dirt, hair disheveled, and cuts on his face. He told the reporter about helping rescue people from the rubble of the tornado. He spoke of his experience at an elementary school. He told of removing a car from the hallway [...]
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The Healthcare Con
BY SHARON MARTIN Why are so many so-called conservatives trying to sabotage ObamaCare? They’ve wasted money on useless repeal votes, legal challenges, and distortion campaigns. Voters have been lied to and manipulated. Governors and attorneys general have done everything possible to stall reform at the state level. Congress has refused to fund reform, even after [...]
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Becoming A Texan Ain’t Easy!
BY NORM ROURKE Winners of the Red River Rivalry change from year-to-year. But Oklahoma is the hands down winner when it comes to registering a vehicle or getting a driver’s license if you’re from out-of-state. “Everything is BIG in Texas!” And they are right when it comes to the state’s awkward bureaucratic paper shuffling Texas [...]
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Global Pandemics: Not If, But When
BY RALPH NADER The deadly influenza virus H7N9 was first detected in China this March. “When we look at influenza viruses, this is an unusually dangerous virus for humans,” said Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s [WHO] assistant director-general for health security. The new H7N9 avian influenza has infected more than 120 Chinese and taken [...]
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Democracy’s Death Dance With Capitalism
BY VERN TURNER There are two quotes, one anonymous and the other from the great economist John Maynard Keynes, that play the music for this dance between competing ideologies as our nation ratchets up its lusty search for hydrocarbons. Capitalism is the childish idea that there is no such thing as too much. – Anonymous [...]
