It’s time again for Oklahoma Gazette’s annual, super-duper official Chicken-Fried News year in review and predictions!
ten commandments
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Chicken-Fried News: Thou shalt not budge … yet
If the court allows the monument to remain on Capitol grounds, there is a good chance it might actually be joined by similar ones.
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Thou shalt erect it
Credit: Brad Gregg The county in far eastern Oklahoma approved the original request, made by former Poteau mayor Don Barnes, in April 2009. The plan was scrapped a couple months later when a federal appeals court ruled that a similar monument, at Haskell County’s courthouse in nearby Stigler, amounted to a government endorsement of religion. […]
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Capitol commandments
The monument is the result of a measure introduced by state Rep. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, and passed by the Legislature in 2009 allowing for a privately paid-for monument to be placed on public property outside the Capitol. Little fanfare accompanied the installation on the north side of the building, with about a dozen non-workers […]
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Shock and schadenfreude
My first emotion was how impressed and amazed I was at how he endeavored to twist the meaning of a photograph that was mostly dark as an adequate portrayal of what he deems a dark lifestyle (homosexuality). I am dumbfounded by his inability to address the artistic sensibility that the photo he was referencing was […]
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Shock and schadenfreude
My first emotion was how impressed and amazed I was at how he endeavored to twist the meaning of a photograph that was mostly dark as an adequate portrayal of what he deems a dark lifestyle (homosexuality). I am dumbfounded by his inability to address the artistic sensibility that the photo he was referencing was […]