Credit: Brad Gregg Got to run by the grocery store for eggs and toilet paper? Bring that .45! Ordering a no-fat mocha frappuccino? Do it with a .44! After enduring an obscenely long period of anti-Second Amendment fascism in our fair state, the estimated 141,000 Oklahomans with a concealed-carry permit can now breathe easy and […]
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Granny larceny
Credit: Brad Gregg Unfortunately for Elvenia Lorreta Wiggins, that’’s what police say happened (figuratively speaking) when her 15-year-old grandson stole from her. Suspicions arose after $800 went missing from Wiggins’ purse. Soon after, the boy began coming home — Wiggins is his legal guardian — with expensive items that Grandma hadn’t purchased (well, that she […]
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Take my campus … please!
Credit: Brad Gregg The original plan was to convert the 43-building campus into C.S. Lewis College. Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia as well as a number of books on Christianity, was a British Anglican, but he is beloved by millions of evangelicals who either don’t know he was anglo-Catholic or only read children’s […]
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Black helicopter alert!
Credit: Brad Gregg Well, except for Alabama (and that’s still a maybe). Oh, and Oklahoma, too. It appears Alabama lawmakers, unsatisfied with just the mind-control-device-blocking power of the tinfoil hat, decided in their wisdom to pass a measure prohibiting state and local governments from participating in the implementation of United Nations initiative Agenda 21. For […]
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Lest ye be judged
Credit: Brad Gregg The rankings came from the Oklahoma Civil Justice Council, a partnership between the State Chamber, the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. The State Chamber has said in the past that it planned to rank judges, who are re-elected on retention ballots, and […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
Credit: Brad Gregg —Charles P. Pierce, on Gov. Mary Fallin’s address at the Republican National Convention, in the November issue of Esquire
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Flea circus
Credit: Brad Gregg First it was Lil Wayne, who took his “I didn’t get a courtside seat” rants to Twitter during last season’s NBA playoffs. Now the anti-Thunder grousing comes from Michael Balzary, better known as Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and an adamant L.A. Lakers fan. Evidently, Flea was denied access to […]
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Mitt Romney and the demise of Anthony’s
Credit: Brad Gregg Mitt Romney does, or at least he might, as detailed in a recent Newsweek story by David Stockman, former budget director in the Reagan administration. As reported in the article, Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, began buying up big-box retailers in the late 1980s and early ’90s that were failing amid […]
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Mick NYC
Credit: Brad Gregg In the Oct. 22 Bloomberg Businessweek, Mayor Mick was one of five city experts interviewed about urban planning. Asked what his favorite city is aside from OKC, Cornett let his little-town blues melt away. “The public transit is astonishing,” he said of New York City. “The diversity available — in all senses […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
Credit: Brad Gregg —Charles P. Pierce, on Gov. Mary Fallin’s address at the Republican National Convention, in the November issue of Esquire