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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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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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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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 […]
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What about Bob (Jones)?
Credit: Brad Gregg Bob Jones University, you might recall, earned international fame in 2000 when its 73-year history of forbidding interracial dating came to an end. The South Carolina university is known for its biblical literalism and strict student morality codes. As such, a school that unironi cally refers to itself as BJU is an […]
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Down with science
Credit: Brad Gregg The slyly named Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act narrowly passed out of a House committee, despite it having drawn the usual ridicule from the national mainstream media who defend such piffle as “climate change,” “gravity” and “the orbit of the planets.” Blackwell has insisted HB 1674 has nothing to do with […]
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Something Fishy
Credit: Brad Gregg Unless you’re the Dallas Mavericks, of course. The poor little Mavs have had kind of a rough season (or two). And when things seemed like they couldn’t possibly be worse, Fisher — whom the team signed with the wild expectation of keeping him for more than nine games — wasted no time […]