Commentary Keith Gaddie
To: The media and whining Democratic delegates From: A cranky independent Re: "Superdelegates" Having watched with dispassionate disinterest the battle for the Democratic Party nomination, I want t...
Commentary Robin Meyers
Everyone has been asking me what I think of Jeremiah Wright now. And to be honest, I'm disappointed. He had a chance to use his moment in the media spotlight to explain both the black church, about wh...
Commentary Ron Black
Whether it be the mayhem surrounding Oklahoma's legislative session, ridiculously high transportation fuel prices or the dogfights over presidential candidates, we often forget that without our milita...
Commentary Kurt Hochenauer
Doesn't everything happening in the metro seem bifurcated these days? Bifurcated is a word that fits. It simply means divided into two camps. In terms of Oklahoma City, it means recent events here " ...
Commentary Jason Reese
Our Populist forebears in Oklahoma feared the concentration of power in one pair of hands. Therefore, they designed our state government with a system closer to the cabinet systems of other English-sp...
Commentary Vince Orza
Things are good in Oklahoma City. Forbes ranks us the most recession-proof city in the country. Executive Traveler magazine has a story about what a great city we live in. The New York Times had a fro...
Commentary Judith Murphy
While recently working at my computer, I heard a faint rustling sound, so I turned to see what the puppy was chewing. Lizbit was asleep at my feet. Moving my desk chair woke her, and she suddenly jump...
Commentary Robin Meyers
Sometimes the painful truth about the human condition comes in through the back door, or seeps into the national psyche like water into a basement. We can't see where it comes from, but the results ar...
Commentary Jay C. Upchurch
Like a lot of little boys growing up in Oklahoma during the late Sixties and early Seventies, my fall Saturdays revolved solely around Sooner football and the exploits of such players as Steve Owens, ...
Commentary Keith Gaddie
I have not learned a new thing in this presidential campaign season since the beginning of the year. As a white, Southern male with a college degree (the new swing vote), there are some things guys fr...