OCPA to engage in court effort protecting child sex-change surgery ban
OCPA to engage in court effort protecting child sex-change surgery banOKLAHOMA CITY (May 2, 2023)—Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small announced today that OCPA will be organizing a coalition of groups and individuals for the pur…
Blinken’s Immaculate Conception Defense: Why Things Are Likely To Get Worse For The Secretary Of State
Below is my column in the New York Post on the response of Secretary of State Antony Blinken to allegations that he was the original source for the Russian disinformation claim behind the Hunter Biden laptop. I wrote previously that Blinken is struggling to avoid the look of a “made man” who earned his bones […]
Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, & Dismantle the Standing Army
According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of federal agents armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades. Image Credit:Holly Hildreth / Getty “There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them […]
Legislators, OCPA praise signing of ban on “gender transition” procedures for children
Sen. Daniels, Rep. Hasenbeck issue statements after Gov. Stitt signs SB 613, prohibiting gender transition procedures for minorsOKLAHOMA CITY (May 2nd) – Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, and Rep. Toni Hasenbeck, R-Elgin, issued the following stateme…
Gov. Stitt signs bill banning “gender transition” surgeries and hormone therapies for minors
Praise God:GOVERNOR STITT BANS GENDER TRANSITION SURGERIES AND HORMONE THERAPIES FOR MINORS IN OKLAHOMAOKLAHOMA CITY (May 1, 2023) – Governor Kevin Stitt signed SB 613 into law today banning all irreversible gender transition surgeries and hormone ther…
SB 613 Signed by Governor Kevin Stitt!
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Bills on the Governor’s Desk-April 2023
House Bill 1789 is on the Governor’s Desk. Listen to this 4 1/2 minute update from OK2A President, Don Spencer.
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Why Tucker Carlson Had To Be Purged
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. May 1, 2023 donate The Fox Network’s firing of Tucker Carlson last week at first seems surprising. He was the station’s biggest attraction. He was close to President Trump and was able to interview him on his program. Getting ridding of him is a surefire way to lose ratings and […]
BatesLine 20th anniversary
First-ever Wayback Machine snapshot of BatesLine.com, from August 5, 2003 Twenty years ago today at 6:01 am, the first blog entry at batesline.com came into being, an automatically generated entry proclaiming, “MovableType 2.63 has been succe…
Do all cultures share the same values?
A recent tweet from Jeremy Tate, founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT): Classical education is fundamental an educational [sic] it what it means to be fully human. It is not a politically conservative alternative to the already po…
EMAIL The Democrats Plan to Steal Another Election
Joe Biden with a dismal approval rating of 37% has announced that he is running for a second term. How can he possibly win? By again stealing the election. Democrats control the large cities in swing states. In the past two elections, they have proven that they can easily steal the election. It is now […]
Rothbard Was Right: Wars Don’t Enhance Freedom. They Destroy Liberty.
We hear ad nauseum from political and media elites that the war in Ukraine is about preserving “our freedoms” Murray Rothbard had something to say about this sophistry. Image Credit:Fokke Hassel / Getty Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Western leaders have declared that Ukraine was defending not only its own freedom, but […]
Gov. Stitt vetoes 20 Senate bills in escalation of fight over tax cuts, education reform
Governor Kevin Stitt probably prepared with some stretches and knuckle-cracking before he set out on a veto spree for the ages last night.
Biden’s Atrocious Assange Prosecution
EMAIL “A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press,” proclaimed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But he was referring only to the Chinese government crackdown on Hong Kong journalists early last year. Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues rushing to destroy one of the most important truth tellers of our times. […]
Column: OK Supreme Court abortion ruling points to the need for judicial reform
I have often mentioned this train of thought in conversation with folks, and there have been whispers of pursuing this sort of reform in the legislature for over a decade, but… let’s be honest, a liberal judiciary serves as a convenient “out” for leg…
The Courage of Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson anchored the most interesting and important news show on television. (Aleksandr Dyskin/Shutterstock) Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, and his enemies are aflutter with media-industry schadenfreude. Contrary to their self-image, most media types—including in right-wing journalism—are highly risk-averse and deferential in the extreme to the imperatives of power. So they can’t help […]
The Death of Law-Based Justice
I have stressed for many years that prosecutors and judges have turned trials into convicting the defendant regardless of innocence or guilt. The methods of producing convictions include withholding exculpatory evidence of the defendant, paying false witnesses with money or reduced or dropped charges for false testimony against the defendant, and piling on false charges […]
America needs a new GOP
You can’t have a Republican Party if you don’t have a coherent and cohesive agenda. What do Republicans stand for? We can’t answer that question and get all Republicans to agree, judging by the way they vote with Democrats sometimes. But with Democrats, you ask them what they stand for and they will all agree: […]
Congratulations Mississippi!
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Reactions roll in over Gov. Stitt’s school choice compromise proposal
Governor Kevin Stitt’s proposal to break the legislative impasse over school choice legislation is being met with a wide range of reactions.
Read below for statements from:
- House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka (cautiously positive)
- Oklahoma Farm Bureau (positive)
- House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson, D-OKC (negative)
- Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Edmond (somewhat negative)