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  • Fox Noise, Faux News

    Apr 06, 2009 | No Comments

    BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD The television cable channel which goes by the title of “Fox News” is popular in our city. It must be. Everywhere one goes in public places, one must endure the diatribe that channel calls “News.” If one goes to the fitness center, sure enough somebody has turned to Fox News, and [...]

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  • False Witness

    Apr 03, 2009 | No Comments

    BY DAVID GLOVER Oklahoma’s Ten Commandments legislator, Rep. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, appeared to bear false witness on a statewide TV broadcast last week. During OETA’s “People’s Business” with George Tomek [3.25.09], Ritze used these phrases in describing the need for Voter ID in Oklahoma: “found voter fraud” “250 people in Tulsa” “vacant lots” “defeated [...]

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  • Misplaced Priorities

    Apr 03, 2009 | No Comments

    BY NORM ROURKE Other than football, Oklahoma is big on taxes and fees. People coming from other states are overwhelmed with the plethora of taxes and assorted fees Oklahoma devises – that is, after they’ve paid tolls to drive here on terrible roads. We have taxes on food [one of the most ridiculous of all [...]

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  • Rebecca Hamilton’s Betrayal

    Apr 01, 2009 | No Comments

    BY ARNOLD HAMILTON How much longer are Democrats going to put up with state Rep. Rebecca Hamilton? The south OKC rep, who’s been trending Republican for years, stabbed her Democratic colleagues in the back today with a procedural move that cut off discussion of one of the GOP’s most sinister [potentially] bills: Voter ID. House [...]

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  • Mr. Obama, Get Us Out

    Mar 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

    BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD If this writer could deliver only one message to our new president, he would pose tall in his most Reaganesque stance, muster his most authoritative actor’s voice with a tone of gravitas, and declare, “Mr. Obama: Get us out – now!” While the economy has been the chief focus of the [...]

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