Let’s get to my end-of-session grades: —State Senate Pro Tem Brian Bingman (Republican leader): B-plus. It is hard to steer entire pieces of legislation and issues when you are one third of the process (House, Senate and governor), but Sen. Bingman held true to his convictions. Despite going against House Speaker Kris Steele and Gov. […]
Kris Steele
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Is Sally Kern an aberration?
The first of many unsettling racist encounters as I traveled across Oklahoma was in a diner where a voter told me that “Obama should be taken out before it is too late.” In 2009, after the president was elected, colleagues and I saw a Tea Party protester at a rally outside the state Capitol with […]
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Fractured family
“Lord, I pray in spite of the many differences between them that would under normal circumstances cause division between them, that you would bring them together, Lord, in the common cause of your righteousness that alone can exalt people of this state,” Vineyard said. To some, it may seem an act of divine intervention would […]