Tom Coburn credit: Mark Hancock If you picked Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, move to the head of the class. The plainspoken, sometimes grim physician, nicknamed “Dr. No” by his Senate colleagues for his penchant for holding up seemingly innocuous items, is the answer to all of the above. It’s among the reasons he is routinely […]
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Wedding bell blues
Today, Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin are still fighting the state to make their 15-year relationship official in the eyes of the law. Their suit challenging Oklahoma’s voter-approved 2004 state constitution amendment barring same-sex marriage continues to wind its way through the federal courts. “Sharon and I are suing for the right to marry,” Bishop […]
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Cat scratch killing
Not only did Ted publicly say he’d be dead or in jail by this time next year if Obama were re-elected, he also said, “We are patriots. We are bravehearts. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November!” Any sane individual knows that this is hyperbole, but my concern […]
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Ted, white and blue
Propelled by double entendres and hot guitar licks, Detroit rock institution Ted Nugent’s still cruising on a three-decade schtick worth more than 30 million records sold and 6,000 shows performed. On paper, the Motor City Madman’s career is as mind-boggling as the high-fret theatrics his 63-year-old fingers continue performing. A run from 1975 to 1977 […]
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Ignorance and hate
He fabricates a narrative which portrays the president as incompetent. The substance and syntax clearly indicate that the writer is either profoundly ignorant, or consumed by hate, or both. With ignorance and hate being the sum and substance of the letter, it would be useless to address it point by point. In fact, to do […]
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Please (press) release me
Brad Gregg In the 17 years since the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, political leaders of all stripes have reflected on the tragedy in written statements peppered with words and phrases like “resilience,” “resolve,” “the Oklahoma Standard” and the like. But it took the absence of one press release for all hell to […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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The rumor mill
Sadly, no. But spurred on by social media, that tidbit grew last week from idle speculation to Internet rumor to printable fact. The day of President Barack Obama’s arrival in Oklahoma City, StateImpact Oklahoma (a collaboration of local NPR stations and OETA) posted a story that concluded, “Oklahomans who want to see the president in […]