Wall Street out on a Ledge over China

Sep 21, 2021 | , , ,

Wall Street took a deep dive yesterday on news from China. Investors are afraid China’s biggest property developer, Evergrande Group, won’t be able to make payments on its debt. If that happens the company could collapse like Lehman Brothers in 2008 and take the economy down with it. To make matters worse the Wall Street

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Politics and the Politicization of the US Military

Sep 21, 2021 | ,

Posted by Ada Coddington “If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military” – Harry S. Truman Americans traditionally have been wary of a large permanent military establishment, believing it to be a threat to democratic institutions. This attitude goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers […]

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Seeing The Biomedical Security State

Sep 20, 2021 | ,

Posted by Ada Coddington Giorgio Agamben, and a year and half of lockdowns, has shown us where we are. (By Dmitrii Iakimov/Shutterstock) “We can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state.” When Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis used this phrase in an early August press conference, it went viral on […]

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Talk Radio Rebounds in Oklahoma

Sep 19, 2021 | ,

  The historic KAKC radio signal has now switched to conservative talk radio, in Tulsa. It’s part of the iHeart Radio network and features the Premier Radio personalities that Rush Limbaugh’s business partners recruited over the decades.   Oklahoma conservatives have enjoyed a long tradition of conservative political talk radio ever since Rush Limbaugh singlehandedly built the new genre in the early 1990s.  Paradigm shifts have had some impact on how consumers get their…

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State Reps. Caldwell, Roberts comment on Department of Education audit

Sep 17, 2021 | , ,

Reactions are starting to come in regarding Governor Stitt’s requested – first ever – full audit of the State Department of Education. Click here for the (un)surprising take from Republican Republican-In-Name-Only State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister.

Rep. Chad Caldwell Comments on Education Audit

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Chad Caldwell, R-Enid, today issued the following statement after the governor and the state auditor announced an investigative audit of the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS) at the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE). 

Caldwell and 21 other lawmakers requested the audit last November after a report from State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd of EPIC Charter Schools revealed the OSDE failed to properly monitor the OCAS for compliance.  

“I appreciate Governor Stitt calling for an audit of the State Department of Education. Following on the heels of the report from the state auditor last year that identified serious shortcomings in the department’s compliance efforts, 22 legislators asked the governor to further investigate these claims. With today’s announcement, Governor Stitt has followed through on the promise he made to Oklahoma taxpayers.

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Gorilla Mask Egg Caper Draws Crickets

Sep 17, 2021 | , , ,

After repeated intimate exposure to Bokbluster, I decided to self-quarantine for the summer. But now I’m back. While away I still drew cartoons for paying customers and will spend the fall backdating the ones I liked. This one is from shortly before the California recall election. A white woman in a gorilla mask threw an

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Transparency? Hofmeister calls Department of Education audit an “attack”

Sep 17, 2021 | , ,

First rattle out of the box and wannabe Democrat State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, who has always been a liberal wolf in Republican clothing, calls Governor Stitt’s Department of Education audit an “attack”. 

This is a transparent attempt to avoid transparency and fiscal accountability. Below is Hofmeister’s laughable press release:

Hofmeister responds to attack audit on public education

OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 16, 2021) – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister today made the following remarks after Gov. Kevin Stitt announced his audit request of the Oklahoma State Department of Education

“The Governor’s call for an audit is yet another attack on Oklahoma’s public education system. 

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9/11: 20 years later, we still remember

Sep 11, 2021 | , ,

Today we mark twenty years since the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. I was eleven at the time, and this was the defining world event of my childhood.

We watched the memorial services on television this morning, much like we watched the events unfold on that fateful day. Our oldest two children, aged six and three, learned more about 9/11 this week than in previous years, and as they grow up we will tell them more as appropriate for their maturity.

It seems hardly possible that it’s been twenty years. We have an entire generation of kids who have no comprehension of what life was like before September 11th, 2001.


 Have You Forgotten? is a poignant song by country music artist Darryl Worley. This video contains images and video from that day — reminders of what our nation suffered and experienced 20 years ago today.

May we never forget:

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OK House Holds Hearings On Jail Diversion For Mentally Ill

Sep 9, 2021 | ,

  A bipartisan  working group will convene Monday morning at the capitol, to hear from leading experts in criminal justice on the massive problem of jails becoming default mental health institutions.  District Judge, Kirstin Pace, along with two county sheriffs, and multiple mental health advocacy groups are preparing to present their reports and answer lawmakers’ questions.​  Reps. Randy Randleman and Colin Walke are teaming up to collect d […]

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