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“And I also need to give credit to Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, who had called me, suggesting that a joint statement might be useful.” “Barack Obama, from his Sept. 24 statement on the economy and the Sept. 26 debate, according to The Associated Press 

A couple of days after Brad Henry and Mick Cornett endorsed the “Pickens Plan,” the wind came out of T. Boone Pickens’ sails last week. T. Boone saw his hedge funds that focus on energy stocks drop nearly 30 percent while a smaller, commodity-based fund was off 84 percent, according to a Sept. 24 article […]

For a guy who was known to let fly pretty much with any thought that crossed his mind, former Gov. Frank Keating sure took a while to get around to letting us know how things went down when he was on the short list to be Bush’s veep. But that’s what he’s done in a […]

Ah, Oklahoma. It’s a place where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain. Its name means “red people” in Choctaw. And it’s a land where petroleum-saturated politicians are orchestrating our every move. Do what now? Could you repeat that? “Oklahoma is now a corporate colony run by oil-marinated politicians,” independent candidate Ralph Nader said during […]

It’s not every week a celebrity receives an honor from Congress while getting panned by entertainment critics at the same time. Somehow, you just knew it would involve Toby Keith. The testosterone-pumped country music star from Moore was the recipient last week of one of the highest rewards Congress can bestow upon the common folk. […]

What did we say last week at CFN? The hits keep on coming with Randy Terrill, that’s what we said. Well, this story is no different regarding Terrill. The Moore Republican state rep.’s recent bankruptcy filings report that he spent more than $2,000 in campaign money for University of Oklahoma football tickets. The expenditures surfaced […]

Poor Lewis Moon. After a late-night attempt to score some tasty Whataburger went awry, the attorney flashed his “eagle badge” but did not avoid arrest recently, according to a story that ran in The Oklahoman. Moon and public defender David James Bedford were arrested in Warr Acres after a Whataburger employee alerted cops that the […]

Former Color Me Badd singer and reality television star Bryan Abrams reportedly was jailed after a public drunkenness and domestic abuse arrest Sept. 5 in south Oklahoma City. Police accuse Abrams of punching a woman in the nose in front of two children after an argument near S.W. 89th and Pennsylvania about 4 p.m. that […]

Union Public Schools, a suburb district of Tulsa, launched a new campaign last week aimed at getting parents to be better listeners with their children. But when it comes to complaints about offending Native Americans, school officials might rather wear earmuffs. Around the time Union was unveiling its “Be There” campaign, the Tulsa Indian Coalition […]

Well, hot damn ” look who came for dinner! None other than George W. Bush. After dropping by Oklahoma City on Sept. 12 for a health care discussion at Presbyterian Health Foundation Conference Center, Dubya moseyed on over to a nice little fund-raiser in support of his pal John McCain, according to a story in […]