Jerome Ersland, before his life sentence for a shooting death Mark Hancock There are nearly 125,000 active concealed-weapons licenses in the state, 24,018 of which were approved last year. Gun legislation is ever-present. The most prominent such bill from the current session would allow people with a concealed weapon license to carry their guns openly. […]
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‘Singled out’
Yeah, well, it’s still out there in purgatory, and federal judges hearing the case pondered the constitutional amendment’s legal standing, since it applies to just one religion. The so-called Save Our State ballot question, which drew national media attention, was passed in November, and has been in a courtroom ever since, after an Oklahoma City […]
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Time-out for towers
Burlingame, Calif.; Bangor, Maine; and Huntington, New York, are just a few of the cities around the country that recently enacted moratoriums on new towers while their city planners chart a course forward. A moratorium would give our city the time to come up with a thoughtful approach that balances the need for adequate wireless […]
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One love
Karli McMurray didn’t intend to start a nonprofit when she traveled to Ghana in the summer of 2009. A graduating law student at Oklahoma City University, she participated in a summer law program through New York’s Fordham University School of Law that took her to Accra, Ghana’s capital. That’s where she met Simon Adjei, and […]
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A rollback to racial integration
SJR 15 is a misguided attempt to end equal opportunity in Oklahoma. In a recent editorial appearing in The Oklahoman, Johnson stated that California and Washington experienced no negative impact after passing similar laws. He is wrong. In fact, California saw a dramatic decline in the enrollment rates of minority students in the University of […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
—Muneer Awad, lawyer and executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), quoted in the “Shariah Shock” article in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Spring 2011 Intelligence Report. Awad and CAIR were asked to fight for businesses not willing to “pick fights” if the amendment approved in State Question 755 […]
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Mythbuster
Myth 1. Color determines price of auto insurance. Myth 2. It costs more to insure your car when you get older. Myth 3. Your credit has no effect on your insurance rate. Myth 4. Your insurance will cover you if your car is stolen, vandalized or damaged by falling limbs, hail, flood or fire.Myth 5. […]
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‘Gun-hating zealots’ are perpetuating backward thought
Karen Webb’s letter “Bullet proof in the line of fire,” (Jan. 19, Gazette) would be amusing, if not for the backward thinking perpetrated by the gun-hating zealots. Webb asks, “How do you tell a good guy with a gun from a bad guy with a gun?” Karen, here’s a hint: The bad guy is the […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
“Nation, recently Oklahoma passed a ballot initiative forbidding the use of Islamic Shariah law. Thank God. It is the only thing keeping Oklahoma’s huge Muslim population from instituting burqa night at the Tulsa Hooters.” —Stephen Colbert on Jan. 25’s “The Colbert Report.” This isn’t the first time Oklahoma’s controversial Shariah ban has found itself parodied […]
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Oklahoma under siege
A draconian abortion law has assumed national prominence as it continues to draw fire. House Bill 2780, passed by the Oklahoma Legislature in April 2010, became law, mandating that a woman or girl seeking an abortion must have an ultra sound within an hour of the procedure. Specifically, the law requires that an instrument, called […]