The Next Steps For the Parental Choice Tax Credit Act
The era of forced public schooling is over. The behemoth system which dominates the spending of our state taxes, will soon have to earn the continued patronage of Oklahoma families. Currently, public schools spend about $10,000 per year, per child enrolled in a school district. The Oklahoma legislature is now poised to return the common education choices back to parents, by allowing them to direct thousands of dollars of their child’s portion of state education spending t […]
A Tale of Two Whistleblowers
Back in August 2019, which seems like a long time ago considering the rapidly changing news cycle, a whistleblower filed a complaint about President Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that occurred on July 25, 2019. The whistleblower didn’t work for the White House and was not directly involved with the call but cited […]
2023 School Board election recap
Some thoughts on the April 4, 2023, school board and municipal results, from my live-tweet thread. (ThreadReaderApp unroll here.) At 7:36 pm, early results in the Tulsa school board election came from 4 of the 18 precincts in District 1, all e…
Romanello: Recent Radio and Podcasts
Heading Level 4 In this radio show, former Oklahoma State Senator Jake Merrick and I discuss the roll-out of Smart Cities in Oklahoma, the ways that the promise of “Economic Development” is beguiling Oklahomans, and what we can do as a stat…
Do We Need a “National Divorce”? It’s Not a New Idea
Such talk of breaking up states and even the country into pieces is wonderful, welcome, and long overdue. A word of correction is in order on the “national divorce” front, however. There can be no national divorce because there was never a national marriage. Image Credit:Drew Angerer / Staff / Getty News reports have been […]
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Is It Time to Panic Yet Over the State of America?
Rush Limbaugh famously reassured his tens of millions of regular listeners many times, “It is never time to panic. It is never time to give up on America!” What would Rush say today? I wish I could listen to Rush analyzing today’s news, including former President Trump’s indictment, the war-without-reason in Ukraine, the dollar losing […]
Presidents Are Legally Immune for Their Most Dangerous Crimes
Regardless of the fate of Trump’s Manhattan case, Americans need to end de facto immunity for commanders in chief. Image Credit:Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged former president Donald Trump with thirty-four felonies tied to his payments to two women prior to the 2016 election. Some pundits are […]
Victor Davis Hanson: Welcome To America’s French Revolution
America now has three potential futures and two are bad… We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force […]
You’re Being Played, Republicans!
photo credit: Bigstock A few years ago, I posted this riddle on Twitter: What’s easier to roll than an Easter egg? Answer: Donald Trump. Now, I can add: What’s easier to roll than Donald Trump? Answer: Republican voters. Democrats are playing Republicans like a fiddle. The left’s sole objective is to make Trump the Republicans’ […]
Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump might open a Pandora’s box for Democrats
Democrats are jumping for joy at the prospect of Donald Trump finally getting hooked, like Al Capone, on some kind of — any kind of — criminal charge. But their own political idols — namely, the Clintons or Bidens — could one day be gored by a hyperpartisan district attorney in search of a crime, […]
State Senate approves $700M education package
I’m posting this somewhat delayed due to having been swamped with work, but this was the biggest thing to come out of the legislature last week:
Senate Approves Historic Education Funding Package
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 30th) – The Oklahoma State Senate today gave passage to its historic $700 million education package.
Senators voted overwhelmingly on both measures 40 – to – 7 on House Bill 1935 and 46 – to – 2 on House Bill 2775, approving the single largest appropriations increase to education in state history, sending it back to the House of Representatives.
2023 Oklahoma school & municipal elections
April 4, 2023, is general election day across Oklahoma for school board races and for municipalities that use the default forms of municipal government established by state statute. Many cities with city charters that define a customized gove…
Welcome to the Banana Republic of America
America has officially descended from Ronald Reagan’s “shining city upon the hill” to a banana republic on par with Cuba, Venezuela, or the former Soviet Union. Elected officials from both parties have no interest in slowing America’s decline and most are cheering it on. YouTube screen grab Just this week, any semblance of fairness, justice, […]
2023 Tulsa School Board campaign finances
The incumbent and challenger in the Tulsa School Board District 1 race have each raised over $50,000 according to campaign contribution and expenditures reports filed with the Tulsa Public Schools district clerk. As of the March 20, 2023, clos…
Trump’s indictment unites most GOP leaders behind former president
Ted Cruz: ‘This is what dictatorships do’ Trump in Waco, TX (video screenshot) With his politically-driven grand jury indictment of Donald Trump, Manhattan’s George Soros-backed District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, has done what only a hard-left, Trump-hating Democrat could do: quickly unite most major Republican leaders behind the former president. There are some exceptions: Senate Minority […]
Case Against Trump A ‘Legal Disaster’: Jenna Ellis
The Manhattan district attorney’s case against former President Donald Trump is a “legal disaster” that has far-reaching legal ramifications, according to his former lawyer Jenna Ellis. “The case against Donald Trump is a legal disaster, a weaponizing [of] the justice system against a political opponent,” Ellis, a former attorney for Trump’s 2020 campaign, told The […]
Benedict Arnold, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas – liars and traitors all
By Patricia McCarthy We can only wonder at the question: do the last two generations know who Benedict Arnold was? Most likely not; they’ve not been taught legitimate American history for decades. To the young of today, Arnold might be a hero for betraying his country. Polls show our young people do not respect or […]
The Zealous Efforts to “Get Trump” Continue Unabated
Much of the media has been obsessed recently about a putative legal action which may be brought by New York DA, Alvin Bragg, against President Donald Trump. The possible decision by a convened grand jury would be an outrageous and politically-motivated perversion of the American justice system. In a real and horrifying sense, it would […]
Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century?
Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century? by Jim Bovard | Mar 23, 2023 Jim Bovard @ 2007 The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed. Instead, politicians […]