Two Oklahoma Republicans — Rep. James Lankford and Rep. Tom Cole — distributed press statements condemning the national health care program while also claiming to keep the government operational through Dec. 15. Some Republicans have said they’re willing to shut down the government if they can defeat Obamacare. Lankford claims he’s “proud” to join his […]
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’Bee season
Credit: Brad Gregg That day, the 29-year-old “rising rapper out of Oklahoma City” was featured in an interview by XXL. To be clear, that’s a hip-hop magazine, not a big men’s clothing shop. CFN’s three takeaways from the interview, viewable at xxlmag.com, are: 1. Jabee has three tattoos on his chest:• Tupac Shakur, • Lauryn […]
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The federal Titanic is sinking
This is an apt analogy for our nation’s current fiscal crisis. Because of an accounting gimmick where governments pretend future liabilities don’t exist and, therefore, don’t account for them, most Americans don’t know how big the problem really is. The amount typically reported, nearly $16 trillion, is actually only the surface of our debt. According […]
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Sooner voter
In an interview with ESPN.com’s SoonerNation blog, Meinke admitted that the revelation of his pick prompted a deluge of reaction, not all of it from happy campers. “Judging from Twitter, I think I’ve made a bunch of new friends from Stillwater,” joked Meinke, a first-time voter in the AP poll. “But unless you’re an extreme […]
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Vetting process
Allen has had a long career in the music business. Before moving to Oklahoma, he worked in Nashville, Tenn., managing music royalties. In the ’90s, he played open-mic nights at local venues and coffee shops, sometimes in a band and sometimes solo. But these early experiences aren’t the only that inspire Allen today. Instead, the […]
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Being Swedish, director Göran Olsson inherently carries an advantage over most American historians when it comes to documenting domestic cultural phenomena, such as the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Because who’s more objective than a foreign visitor? Olsson makes this point early on in “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” when Swedish […]
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Nine Nation Animation
Now that CGI is no longer a novelty, but something our eyes take for granted, the opportunity for true cinematic artistry falls to the kind that rarely unspools onto the big screen: the animated short. As the feature-length anthology “Nine Nation Animation” demonstrates, there’s no global shortage of experimentation in the field. Equipped with a […]
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Separation deliberation
But by the discussion’s close, only one mind was changed. The debate was between Bruce Prescott, Baptist pastor and president of the Norman chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Steve Kern, Baptist pastor and husband to state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, who was in the audience. The two debated […]