The mother of one of my congregants recently died of cancer. When the cancer was discovered, it had progressed to the point of being untreatable. She had been in pain for a while, but like many folk, just toughed it out. She didn’t go to a physician just to see what might be the problem […]
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The cost of war
Any discussion over what to do about Oklahoma’s high incarceration rates must begin with the general acknowledgment the so-called “war on drugs” has been a failure here and across the country. Nationally, taxpayers pay about $69 billion on an annual basis to fund this war, first declared by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, according […]
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The cost of war
Any discussion over what to do about Oklahoma’s high incarceration rates must begin with the general acknowledgment the so-called “war on drugs” has been a failure here and across the country. Nationally, taxpayers pay about $69 billion on an annual basis to fund this war, first declared by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, according […]
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Patchwork problems
Unemployment at 25 percent, businesses going broke, banks not able to cash paychecks, farm prices plummeting to half of what they were the year before, foreclosures at an all time high ” it was the Great Depression. FDR presented the New Deal, World War II broke out, and our country rebounded stronger than ever. The […]
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Patchwork problems
Unemployment at 25 percent, businesses going broke, banks not able to cash paychecks, farm prices plummeting to half of what they were the year before, foreclosures at an all time high ” it was the Great Depression. FDR presented the New Deal, World War II broke out, and our country rebounded stronger than ever. The […]
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Okie hope
As term limits officially prevent Gov. Brad Henry from running again in 2010, Republicans are now poised to seize the gubernatorial position in addition to controlling the Legislature, tightening the noose on any chance of a more-than-nominal Democratic voice in Oklahoma politics. Traditionally, Democrats ran the show in Oklahoma. The people have elected only four […]
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Okie hope
As term limits officially prevent Gov. Brad Henry from running again in 2010, Republicans are now poised to seize the gubernatorial position in addition to controlling the Legislature, tightening the noose on any chance of a more-than-nominal Democratic voice in Oklahoma politics. Traditionally, Democrats ran the show in Oklahoma. The people have elected only four […]
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Commentary: The real devaluation of marriage
It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child, and studies have continually shown real benefits to children brought up in a household with both a mother and father present. Yet Oklahoma law does little to promote such a family dynamic. State Rep. Sally Kern, who has recently become something of […]
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The last throes
At the risk of being proven wrong like our former vice president, I think the right-wing insurgency in Oklahoma is in its last throes, as evidenced by the absurd political theatre of the “Proclamation for Morality.” It was always a weird phenomenon in Oklahoma, running counter to our historic identity as a state of populist, […]
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The last throes
At the risk of being proven wrong like our former vice president, I think the right-wing insurgency in Oklahoma is in its last throes, as evidenced by the absurd political theatre of the “Proclamation for Morality.” It was always a weird phenomenon in Oklahoma, running counter to our historic identity as a state of populist, […]