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Charles Biggs

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Several states are battling abortion but not Oklahoma

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Can we abolish abortion in America? The answer is yes. The State of Missouri is in a court battle to close the last remaining abortion clinic in that state, a clinic run by Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion machine in America. At issue was a state license that expired May 31. Losing the license would…

BabylonBee.com is chock full of clean, Christian comedy

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I discovered The Onion back when it only had a printed edition. The satirical website can be really funny but it frequently strays from good taste (profanity and sexual innuendo), so I don’t read it anymore and I can’t recommend it to my friends or readers. There is an alternative. It’s www.babylonbee.com. The Babylon Bee…

The Tulsa Beacon’s 18th anniversary is in April

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On April 25, 2001, Susan and I launched the first edition of the Tulsa Beacon. This wasn’t the first time we had started a newspaper. In 1984, I was the suburban reporter for the daily paper and I covered Glenpool on a regular basis. I got to know the city manager, the bank president, the…

Swimming opportunities have changed over 50 years

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When I grew up, I loved to go swimming. I learned to swim at the Olympic-sized outdoor pool at McClure Park (near 11th street and Memorial Drive). It was two blocks from the house where I grew up and it only cost a quarter to go swimming back in the 1960s. McClure Park has a…

‘Facts’ can change when it comes to climate scientists

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“Science changes all the time.” That’s a quote from secularist Bill Nye, the “science guy.” If that is true, and it is, why must the public blindly accept anything put forward by the scientific community? Remember when Obama said “the science is settled” on human-cause “climate change (global warming)? Naturalnews.com deftly points out that before…

Barbecue has been tasty with a Weber or a Kingsford grill

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One of the best gifts I ever got was when my kids bought me a Kingsford charcoal grill. For decades, I used had cooked on a Weber 22-inch kettle grill. I think that was a gift from my good friends, Scott and Marsha Grindle. I replaced the grill on that model at least three times…

High school proms have changed a lot in the past 45 years

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Forty-five years ago (ouch), I graduated from Nathan Hale High School. I spent three wonderful years at the best school in town with the sharpest teachers and the finest friends you could ever ask for. Make that, “for which you could ever ask,” We will have our class of ’72 45th reunion July 22-24 here…

Rehabilitation, Ritalin, video games and other topics

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Someone sent me a copy of a letter to the editor written by Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan. Tawas City sits aside Lake Huron in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and has a population of about 2,000 and a total area of about 2.2 square miles. And a whole lot of common sense. Mr….

We don’t see television shows like The Rifleman anymore

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One of my favorite shows growing up was The Rifleman, starring the late Chuck Connors. It was set in the Old West and every episode was a morality play. The good guys always won. Filmed in black and white, The Rifleman had a five-year run on ABC that began in 1958. The setting was a…

Irish eyes have to keep smiling with these kinds of jokes

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When I was a student at Nathan Hale High School, I had a weekend job as a pizza cook at Irish Mike Clancy’s Pizza Parlor on Mingo Road just north of 11th Street. Back in the late 1960s, there wasn’t a pizza parlor on every corner. Irish Mike was a former pro wrestler who was…