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Kurt Hochenauer
There are several pending bills in the Oklahoma Legislature that, if passed, will send a clear message to the nation that the state does not support diversity, multiculturalism and women's reproductiv...

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Pam Fleischaker
In the Sixties, I inherited my dad's Chevrolet Corvair and drove it all over Austin, Texas. My younger sister then drove it till it died somewhere between Waco, Texas, and Dallas. We had fun with that...

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Vince Orza
The 2008 presidential election is more than a year away and campaigns are already in full swing. The candidates will spend about $1 billion trying to get elected. It's no coincidence the best-financed...

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Robin Meyers
Once upon a time, a "straight-shooting" Texas oilman without a single accomplishment to his name decided to run for president as God's chosen one. Proud of being a C student, and clumsy of speech like...

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Judith Murphy
Sen. James Inhofe caught lots of flack recently for his objections to plans for holding Al Gore's Live Earth concert on the west side of the U.S. Capitol. The concert, scheduled for July 7, is intende...

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Keith Gaddie
Will Rogers observed that "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." To watch our own state government in action of late, I expect that Gov. Brad Henry is thinking a lesse...

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Robert Wegener
Last year, the United States borrowed approximately $320 billion to import oil " nearly $1 billion per day. Significant portions of these funds are used by hostile nations to finance and perpetuate ha...

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Keith Hazelton
Addiction, it is said, often blinds those so afflicted to the moral and ethical considerations of behaviors intent on satisfying their habits. In our present oil addiction, we so fervently have embra...

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Ron Black
Oklahoma Republicans were disappointed when presidential candidate Mitt Romney canceled plans to be keynote speaker at the Republican Convention April 14, but the events of the convention itself more ...

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Robin Meyers
As the nation grieves the worst single act of gun violence in our history, there is one topic that the corporate media will not let us discuss rationally: gun control.   Less th...