Dan Keating

There is something about strong names.  Many times a plain name can be improved with the help of a middle name, like William Tecumseh Sherman or George Armstrong Custer.  In looking at the Tulsa mayoral candidates, you find Dewey F. [...]

The spring season is supposed to perk up one’s attitude and well-being.  Unfortunately, given the White House’s total lack of empathy with the economic plight of so many Americans, their pain will go on and on.  Even the marginally educated [...]

One of the cornerstones of Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s re-election campaign is “to keep a good thing going.”  Continuity is good for the city.  It really doesn’t matter if the old Model-T is stuck in the rut – let’s just leave [...]

In March, the world lost a great leader, one born a grocer’s daughter who would rise on “her own talent and effort” to international prominence. Nations would come to know Margaret Thatcher by many titles and nicknames from Prime Minister, [...]

This past Easter weekend marked the first anniversary of the “Good Friday shootings,” when three individuals died and two were hospitalized do to a senseless murder spree by two individuals. If the shootings had been gang related, there would have [...]

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article by Kirk W. Johnson entitled, “The Iraqi Allies We left Behind.”  What Mr. Johnson wanted to report is the unresolved humanitarian consequences of ten years of war. As he writes, “The reminders [...]

The New York Times, Sunday of March 17 carried an article by Laurie Edwards entitled “The Gender Gap in Pain.” The first sentence of the article will take those aback who want to believe and convince others to believe there [...]

What’s that song in the air?  Wasn’t it just a perfect day on Saturday?  Nearly 80 degrees, no wind and clear skies.  The type of day to take Freckles, our cocker spaniel down to Atkinson Park for a long romp. [...]

Most Oklahomans know Tom Cole as the successor to J.C. Watts as a congressman from Oklahoma’s Fourth District.  The congressman has been the pillar of the Republicans’ intellectual wing of the Oklahoma delegation because of his broad experience in state [...]

Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil coined the phrase, “all politics is local,” which according to Wikipedia, encapsulates the principle that a politician’s success is directly tied to his ability to understand and influence the issues of his [...]