Credit: Brad Gregg To commemorate the event, Scholastic Books recently held a sweepstakes to award Clifford birthday parties to five lucky winners nationwide, each of whom could invite 50 friends and family members. As it turns out, a Oklahoma City boy was one of those select victors! Well, a 70-year-old Oklahoma City boy. John McKeel, […]
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Kraft, cheesed
Credit: Brad Gregg Welker, who was a high school star at Oklahoma City’s Heritage Hall, signed a two-year contract with the Denver Broncos for $6 million a year after last season. Kraft tried to blame Welker’s agent, David Dunn, saying that Dunn had misjudged Welker’s value and the Patriots offered the receiver a better deal […]
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Mama’s getting punchy
But wait, don’t award her an MTV Moonman just yet, folks; the character Lambert was playing might not have been much of a stretch, after all. According to a police report filed by Melanie Peden — a Tishomingo antique shop owner and neighbor to Lambert’s Pink Pistol boutique — the country-pop tart went postal after accusing […]
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Agenda agitation
Credit: Brad Gregg To many, Agenda 21 is a voluntary U.N. resolution meant to foster sustainable communities. To others — including some state legislators — it is a covert means to steal our McMansions, confiscate our guns and force us all into cramped urban apartments and onto mass transit. The measure, authored by Rep. Sally […]
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Fancy that
Credit: Brad Gregg But McEntire, a proud gun-owner, recently riled up some of her fans when she fielded a question about gun control on a South Carolina radio station. No one, she said, should have the “power” of owning assault weapons. The crooner reiterated her support for the Second Amendment, but added, “I think […]
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Fish takes the bait
Credit: Brad Gregg But there are two cheeks to every ass, right? What about Fish’s side of the story? “I was being open and honest at the time and I’m being open and honest now,” he said in response. “At the time, I felt strong about the decision on a personal level. It wasn’t anything […]
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Vote gloat
Credit: Brad Gregg The answer is “yes,” if the March 5 election results are any indication. According to the Oklahoma County Election Board, 24 percent of eligible voters in Nicoma Park cast ballots in its mayoral election and the two city council races. On the flip side, only 7 percent of eligible voters in Oklahoma […]
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Ridicu-laws
Credit: Brad Gregg But we might not be able to do that much longer. House Bill 1060, authored by state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, easily won House approval last week. It seeks to prohibit the application of foreign law when the aforementioned violates the Constitution. In response to the measure’s passage, dissenting Rep. Emily […]
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What’s a billion, anyway?
Credit: Brad Gregg The mag noted McClendon had leveraged against his personally held oil and gas interests and has “mounds of debt.” But don’t get out your tiny violin just yet. McClendon will leave Chesapeake April 1 with a severance package worth about $47 million. Although he’s no longer a billionaire (wiping tears away), he […]
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‘Terror’ alert!
Credit: Brad Gregg In a Warner Bros. Records press release, Lips front man Wayne Coyne explains the title as only he can: “If we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life,” he said. “The Terror, we know now, that even […]