Tea Parties all over the country are calling for change. At some of the Oklahoma rallies, I asked people: “What specific things, besides rallying, are you doing to bring about change?” The most common response was, “I voted and I e-mailed.” Very good, but then I pushed harder: “Did you do anything else?” All I […]
Richard Prawdzienski
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Everyone should run for office in 2010
Year after year, people complain about government. When asked what they have done about the failed government, they say they voted, they wrote to their legislator. Those actions didn’t work: Voting and e-mailing only achieved the status quo. Year after year, people complain that not enough people vote; those complaints don’t move people to vote. […]
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A successful failure?
August news bulletin: 29 arrested during a drug raid in Clinton. Yippee! After the raid, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics director was quoted in a press release, saying, “I believe that the ripple effect after the MOT (Mobile Operations Team) unit has conducted an operation will have a paralyzing presence because drug violators will […]
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Herd is the word
Edmond says it has an underage drinking problem, and so does Yukon and Enid. Soon we will be told we have a problem throughout the state and folks will be asking our legislators to write a statewide social host law ” a law that will punish anyone older than 21 who permits younger folks to […]
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Silencing the minority
Will Ralph Nader run for president if the Democrats don’t nominate the right candidate? Will we, the people of Oklahoma, be allowed to vote for Nader or any other third-party candidate in the next presidential election? Probably not. We didn’t get to vote for any third-party candidates in 2004. No Nader for us. […]
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Passing the buck?
Send me a dollar. Don’t ask why. Don’t ask what for; just do it. In a way, that is what our government says. Yes, the government budget does list categories where our money goes, and we do have a bunch of governmental services, but does anyone know how our dollars are spent? Our […]