The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal, and the Civil Rights Act ended legal segregation. But these laws did not come with acknowledgments that the country erred in allowing those practices and hurting its own people. The city of Edmond prohibited African-Americans by ordinance from the city limits for generations. Royce Adamson’s 1940 postcard for his […]
apology
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zombies > Congress
Seriously. So what better way to get back in good graces with the American people than calling your fellow congressman an asshole? According to the New York Daily News, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) did just that when discussing the nature of his relationship with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) at a gala for the […]
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Say you’re sorry
Credit: Brad Gregg On June 11, freshman U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, took to the House floor to demand — nay, to demand! — that President Barack Obama apologize to Oklahomans for not spending more on weather research. “This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather […]
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Unconvinced by Kern
I am unconvinced by her apology, with or without the tears. I am also convinced that many of those who applauded her, in the Republican caucus or at the gun range, were not applauding her apology. Our economic elite have successfully transformed Oklahoma from Democratic into Republican by using institutions like The Oklahoman and the […]