Who do you pick? Kevin Durant. Duh. The Oklahoma City Thunder star has a reputation for being Mr. Nice Guy off the court, so the partnership makes a lot of sense. This is more than an endorsement deal, though; it’s an initiative. The program, dubbed Strong and Kind, aims to promote — you guessed it […]
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Jon Stewart takes on Hobby Lobby
His latest victim is one near and dear to many Oklahomans’ hearts (and vaginas): Hobby Lobby. In the midst of the Supreme Court brouhaha on the Oklahoma Citybased store’s beef with Obamacare — specifically, the law’s insistence that corporations provide its employees with specific types of birth control — Stewart ripped Hobby Lobby’s faith-based objection […]
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They’re moving! Not.
But not. Local superstar couple nearly broke the Internet with the announcement that he and wife Trisha Yearwood were packing up and moving to the big city. According to a report from CMT, the couple will officially have an empty nest in Owasso, Okla. when their youngest leaves for college in the fall, and they […]
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Aubrey’s angels
Less than a year after his departure, the energy titan has started another company. It has been raising money like gangbusters and is investing heavily in the Utica Shale formation in Ohio. But investment site The Motley Fool wants to know who keeps giving McClendon money. Fool contributor Tyler Crowe said McClendon’s American Energy Partners, […]
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They’re taking a trip — to jail
Our guess is it was probably pretty easy to track down two young adults who were busted recently for growing a crapload of magic mushrooms in their apartment. Said one respondent on the Shroomery.org message board, “Why didn’t they lie and say they were medicinal mushroom jars?” Thanks for the legal advice, but various strains […]
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Fujiyama Mama
With that in mind, Salon.com composed a badass mixtape of nuclear anhilation-themed tunes to boogie down to as it all goes up in flames. Is it any wonder that Oklahoma rocker Wanda Jackson made the cut? With her 1957 hit “Fujiyama Mama,” she does her finest impression of a nuclear bomb — not a stretch […]
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DNA will not be taken from suspects
The author, Rep. Lee Denney, R-Stillwater, said the addition to the law enforcement database would help solve cold cases. The House was like, “Whatevs,” and killed it with a vote of 51-35, the Associated Press reported. There were emotional pleas from both sides of the aisle about unsolved murders, catching repeat offenders and preventing further […]
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Bang, bang!
At the annual Conservative Political Association Conference (CPAC) recently, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell showed his respect with something, may we say, ageappropriate. Guess. No, really. Guess. Yes, it was a gun. Guess what kind. No, really. Guess. A musket! The gift eclipsed reporting of just about everything else that came out of CPAC; the […]
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People have time for Sweet Brown
Since becoming an Internet sensation overnight (not to toot our own horn, but we’d like to think part of it had to do with her coverage in our publication), she has made dozens of TV appearances and has even started her own line of barbecue sauce. With a name like Sweet Brown, it was a […]
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Putin power
As the top-ranking Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Inhofe blamed the president for cutting the military and, as a result, empowering Russian President Vladimir Putin to have carte blanche in hassling and invading its neighbors, according to a report in the Kansas City Star. The distinguished gentleman from Oklahoma seems to have […]