President Barack Obama was reelected in an Electoral College rout; Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin were elected to the U.S. Senate, Tammy Duckworth won a U.S. House seat, three states approved same-sex marriage and two states passed legalized marijuana. The country’s demographics are changing and so are cultural and social attitudes. By the 2016 presidential […]
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‘Free’ at last
Rap has long held domain over comedy skits between songs until country crooner Jerrod Niemann laid claim to them with his breakout 2010 album, Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury. “We were just laughing, having a blast and couldn’t stop between takes,” said the self-described half-Oklahoman who grew up in Liberal, Kan. “We’d get these […]
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Why not move already?
A more liberal state like Caleeefornia, Oregon or Washington would consider him a state treasure. To think humans could alter the climate is hubris at its most significant. —Tom Furlong, Oklahoma City
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Walk the walk
In fact, OKC fared near the bottom in a walkscore.com ranking poll. Brad Gregg So while there’s a whole lot of moving going on around here, the city’s accessibility for people who want to walk remains dismal. According to a recent article in Slate, those ratings directly correlate with political affiliation. Of the bottom four […]
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You call that green?
I’ve never seen such a conflicted publication. First, according to core samples at landfills, it’s not disposable diapers, but newspapers (including Oklahoma Gazette) and Yellow Pages taking up all that space. Next Greg Horton sings the praises of a so-called man of God who denigrates the Bible, the basis for the Christian faith. Then we […]
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Disraeli conflict
Mr. Reese intentionally shortened a quote from Benjamin Disraeli to serve the point he was trying to make. Unfortunately, the complete quote actually works against him. Disraeli’s full quote reads: “In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change […]
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Labor pains
How Marty Morelli (Letters, “Reader: ‘Hitler was a progressive’”) can reconcile his claims that liberals and progressives are Nazis and Fascists with the fact that Jewish leaders have played a prominent role in liberal and progressive causes is laughable. This is not to say that Jews are only liberals and progressives. There are just as […]