Credit: Brad Gregg Unlike the incorrigible Lucy Ricardo, however, this is one Lucy you wouldn’t be able to understand. Unless you speak kangaroo, that is. We’re talking about Lucy Sparkles, a sneaky little marsupial that bounded off from her Shawnee family’s home Nov. 22, trekking across Pottawatomie County like they were her indigenous Aussie deserts […]
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Pledge cleaner
Credit: Brad Gregg Perhaps the same can be said about congressional Republicans and the antitax pledge pushed by activist Grover Norquist now that U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, has said it’s time to cut a budget deal with President Obama and avoid the fiscal cliff. In an interview last week with Politico, Cole confirmed that […]
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Thou shalt not troll
Credit: Brad Gregg Members of the anti-abortion group, who describe themselves as modern-day abolitionists, took issue with the fact that a portion of the church’s donations go to Planned Parenthood (which, incidentally, does not provide abortions in Oklahoma). Mayflower lists 23 other organizations that receive church funds, including food banks and homeless shelters. Several figures, […]
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Health insurance? Fooey!
First, the Republican governor delayed implementing aspects of the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare, in hopes that it would be rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. When that plan failed, she and others counted on the election of a Republican president to push its repeal. That plan didn’t work out so well, either. Finally, it’s […]
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7 TSA-banned items Wayne Coyne has yet to take through airport security (we think)
1. Reebok Super Smash Kashmir Willow cricket bat 2. Krylon Brushed Metallic Indoor Satin spray paint can (caramel latte color, 11 oz.) 3. Dragon Nunchucks (“The Choice of Better Ninjas Everywhere,” with handsome dragon inlay design and ball bearing swivel, 30 inches) 4. Black Cat Gatlin’ Pack roman candles (18 inches, eight per pack) 5. […]
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Countering contraceptives
“Hobby Lobby must violate its faith and pay for abortion pills” shouted a news release following the judge’s decision. But the truth of the matter is a bit more complex. Are emergency contraceptives tantamount to abortion? Medical experts believe they prevent ovulation or fertilization. It is not impossible that they could prevent a fertilized egg […]
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Sour shareholders
Credit: Brad Gregg TPG-Axon, which holds a 4.5 percent stake in SandRidge, charged in a Nov. 8 letter to SandRidge’s board that the company had engaged in reckless spending and that shareholders had experienced a 76-percent decline in stock price. TPG-Axon requested that the company be sold, Tom Ward replaced as CEO and board members […]
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Thou shalt erect it
Credit: Brad Gregg The county in far eastern Oklahoma approved the original request, made by former Poteau mayor Don Barnes, in April 2009. The plan was scrapped a couple months later when a federal appeals court ruled that a similar monument, at Haskell County’s courthouse in nearby Stigler, amounted to a government endorsement of religion. […]
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They like us! They really like us!
Credit: Brad Gregg Chicken-Fried News isn’t certain we agree, since we’re mighty fond of a 1984 Psychology Today story on the duality of the human psyche as reflected by Butch and Ben McCain, but the Times piece was unequivocally a lovely paean to our hometown. In “A Basketball Fairy Tale in Middle America,” writer Sam […]
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Poo-pooing Planned Parenthood
Credit: Brad Gregg Of course, the Health Department said it has the right to choose … who receives a contract. In September, the agency chose not to renew the Planned Parenthood contract, citing the program’s relatively high cost per participant, a decrease in case loads and faulty billing practices. But Planned Parenthood of the Heartland […]