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When our fair state beats out the other 49 for the top spot on a list, we celebrate. So break out the bubbly: Oklahoma has the most payday-advance borrowers in the U.S.!

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Hey, Sooner Nation: There’s a guy in Michigan you might want to put on your Christmas card mailing list this year. Kyle Meinke, who covers football for annarbor.com, was the only voter in the Associated Press Top 25 football preseason poll to give the first-place nod to the University of Oklahoma.

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We at CFN have always figured that one reason Sen. Jim Inhofe enjoys such strong voter support is that a hefty chunk of the electorate shares his views that manmade climate change is rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish.

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Who would have believed the state House district that spawned Randy Terrill would be ground zero for one of the nastiest primary campaigns in the state?

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Something tells us Roy Johnson would’ve loved Fifty Shades of Grey, especially in the bathroom. That’s because the Healdton oilman and Ardmore newspaper publisher, who died in 1960, left behind a prized possession that novelist Larry McMurtry just unloaded for $2,750.

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The Republican presidential ticket has some Oklahoma flair, thanks to the wife of vice presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan. Janna Little Ryan grew up in Madill and is a first cousin to U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee.

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Here’s the thing, David Gregory Gee: We’ve all had it up to “here” with how hot it’s been. Yes, it sucks. But that doesn’t mean we can just rip all our clothes off and run nekkid through the neighbor’s lawn sprinklers.

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For U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, there does appear to be one scientific principle — maybe the only one — that he appears to have taken to heart: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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If you happen to catch Mitt Romney’s new campaign ad “Dream,” which alleges that car dealerships had to close on account of the auto industry bailout, the footage showing Lyndhurst, Ohio, might look familiar to you.

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Seven is a lucky number for Okie country superstar Toby Keith. He’s currently celebrating the seventh anniversary of his I Love This Bar & Grill restaurants that bear his name, the first of which opened in Bricktown and Las Vegas in 2005.

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When Mercy Hospital’s corporate office in St. Louis, Mo., discovered the company had inadvertently copied an Oklahoma City church’s logo, it did what all honest organizations do: Company execs apologized and volunteered to help Crossings Community Church design a new logo.

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Voter registration in Oklahoma is on the rise, but that doesn’t mean the Democratic Party is part of it.

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An Oklahoma governor from yesteryear will be getting the Hollywood treatment, as will his niece. Er, make that adopted daughter. Actually, make that his wife.

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Child care centers might profess to love kids, but that doesn’t mean they’re big fans of those pesky women who insist on popping them out from time to time. Just ask the U.S.