by R3publicans | Jan 1, 2024 | Immigration, OKGrassroots, R3publicans
Despite all of my disastrously wrong past predictions, I cannot resist sharing my thoughts on the coming year. Before I start, let’s accept that state-created pain, state hypocrisy, and state-funded murder around the world – much of it funded and enabled by the US...
by R3publicans | Dec 30, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, R3publicans
“I’ve also lost patience with the Sharia of the political left taking over the entire system.” — David Collum Historians of the future, flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires, will wonder at how the archetypal Shining City on a Hill of...
by R3publicans | Dec 29, 2023 | OKGrassroots, R3publicans
Eight years ago the Washington Post pledged to save democracy, but now argues we need to be saved from it… A month ago in the Washington Post, not long before the Colorado mess, neoconservative icon Robert Kagan wrote, “A Trump dictatorship is...
by Michael Bates | Dec 27, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Here’s a brief introduction to the six candidates running for three seats Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education, drawing on public information, including filing information, voter registration records, and social media accounts. All addresses are in the City...
by R3publicans | Dec 27, 2023 | OKGrassroots, R3publicans
The graph below embodies a shit-ton of modern political, policy and financial history, even if on the surface its seems prosaic enough. Literally, it tracks in 2023 dollars of purchasing power the rise of the public debt since 1966. To be sure, 1966 did have some...
by Michael Bates | Dec 27, 2023 | Local Elections, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
UPDATE: At the close of the filing period, we have three contested races for Tulsa school board, and contests for single seats in Berryhill, Owasso, and Union. The remaining 13 seats (including two each in Keystone and Liberty and the Tulsa Tech Center seat), are...
