The crowd in the banquet hall at the Character Conference Center, housed in an old Holiday Inn in downtown Oklahoma City, sat packed, rapt with attention as Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, told them she’d found it: the gay agenda. KERN SPEAKS JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY FALSE FLAG Kern said the agenda is in […]
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Governor delivers State-of-the-State speech
Gov. Brad Henry said Monday in his State of the State speech to the Oklahoma legislature that hard times facing the state could have a silver lining. “In this demanding economic environment, we must make difficult decisions. But, just as the Chinese character for ‘crisis’ also denotes ‘opportunity,’ so, too, do the challenges we face present […]
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Oklahoma’s gun sales mirror U.S. trend of record sales
At Oklahoma City’s H&H Gun Range, which has a large selection of firearms for purchase as well as classes and lanes for shooting, founder and president Miles Hall said his staff experienced a surge during the election of Barack Obama. SURGE IN GUN SALESDIRECT FACTOR?POSTED AGENDA The day after the election, Hall said, his store […]
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University of Oklahoma plans a Darwin celebration
Amidst all the opinion about Charles Darwin’s famous “On the Origin of the Species,” the book that gave us the concepts of natural selection and evolution, there’s a little-known fact. It doesn’t mention apes. The book discusses pigeons, ostriches, ants, bees, whales, even monkeys ” peripherally ” five times. While each line is rife with […]
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Officials detain man at Oklahoma City federal building
Federal officials arrested a man Wednesday after he walked into the Oklahoma City federal building claiming he was carrying bombs. The new federal building, where the incident occurred, is not far from the site of the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, which killed 168 and wounded hundreds. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
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Oklahoma City mayor gives State of the City address
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said in his State of the City speech Thursday that the metro is”¦for now”¦riding out the economic tidal wave that’s hitting the rest of the country. “This month there are dozens of mayors that are standing in front of audiences much like this one and they are explaining to their […]
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Oklahoma goes from eighth to sixth in teen births
Paul Abner, whose Oklahoma City-based ministry Worth The Wait focuses on “sexual purity until marriage,” said he could immediately see the issue with a recent Johns Hopkins University study about so-called “virginity pledges.” That study, which was released by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, showed virtually no difference between religious teens who […]
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Oklahoma ranks top 10 for obesity, diabetes, high-blood pressure, depression
That Oklahoma ranks in the top 10 in both obesity and depression is no surprise to Philip Hyde, a clinical psychologist with the Oklahoma Psychological Center, 1117 N.W. 50th. He’s seen the conditions coexist in clients for years. “There is no doubt they are joined,” Hyde said. “My guess is it stems from a lot […]
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OKC literary figures had choice words about drinks
tern writer Louis L’Amour as a part of President Roosevelt’s Works Project Administration. In addition to calendars and other pamphlets, the project under Thompson endeavored to write about Oklahoma’s labor history ” he was at one point a member of the Communist Party ” and also attempted to develop a history of black Oklahomans with […]
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Literary Libations
Literary figures with local ties had choice words about a good, stiff drink. Their picks ” both drinks and words ” carried a wide vocabulary. Here are their drinks and where to get them. While some may drink to forget, some drink to remember. It was his upbringing in Oklahoma that clouded Ralph Ellison’s glass […]