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Charles Biggs

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2022 predictions for sports, politics, President Biden

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Here are my predictions for 2022. The Oklahoma football team will have a better defense with Brent Venables as head coach. TU and Coach Phillip Montgomery will be invited to a bowl game. Coach Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State will be at or near the top of the Big 12 Conference in football. OU, ORU…

Don’t let the media define the true meaning of Christmas

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America’s progressive media goes out of its way to divert attention from the real meaning of Christmas. The real meaning is that God loved us so much that He sent His Son to be born of a virgin, live a perfect life and to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus Christ rose from…

Replacing a trusty waterbed with a high-dollar mattress

Tulsa Beacon

When Susan and I got married in 1982, our first purchase was a California king waterbed. We were not hippies but we liked to sleep on a comfortable mattress and waterbeds were remarkably inexpensive. For almost 40 years, we slept on that waterbed. We replaced the mattress twice and the heater twice. And we replaced…

Lincoln Riley didn’t make a ‘hard decision’ to leave OU

Tulsa Beacon

Former Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley said his decision to quit OU and take the head coaching job at USC was “the hardest decision” he ever had to make. Right. It was so hard that it took him less than half a day to make up his mind. Riley would have you believe that following…

Why have the Chevy Equinoxes been so difficult to find?

Tulsa Beacon

In 2011, I bought a brand new Chevrolet Equinox in Tulsa for about $21,000. In 2014, I bought the Chevy Equinox that I now drive in Tulsa for about $22,000. Both times, it was a new car and the dealer offered me a significant discount because he was trying to make room for the new…

Lots of seafood on our short fall adventure in Florida

Tulsa Beacon

There is something so calming about the ocean. Earlier this month, we accompanied my mother-in-law and one of our sons and his wife on a four-day trip to Florida. We take this long weekends to get away and Florida is a favorite stopping point. To be honest, I wasn’t sure we could get a good…

Be thankful even when circumstances may seem tough

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I was visiting with my friend Rick Collier and we were talking about what it was like when we were growing up in Tulsa. We had several things in common, including coming from poor families and growing up in Tulsa around Sheridan Road (probably from Admiral Boulevard to 41st Street). I usually had a bowl…

Buying Christmas gifts too early can make matters complicated

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Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview in October that people should start buying Christmas gifts immediately. This was troubling because she wasn’t necessarily advising shoppers to plan ahead but instead was issuing a warning about her anticipated shortage of stuff to buy for Christmas. Dock workers are on strike. Trucking companies can’t get…

College Football Conferences

Conference switches mean more money, more headaches

Tulsa Beacon

Loyalty in college athletics apparently doesn’t extend to your team’s conference anymore. Here’s some history. The Southwest Conference was founded 1914 – 107 years ago. It was dissolved in 1996. For the bulk of its history, the conference had eight primary members. Seven were from Texas, including Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor, TCU…

Here is what is happening in public schools to our kids

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What’s it like in public schools these days? In Loudoun County, Virginia, a father whose daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted by a “gender-fluid” person in school was arrested. That’s right. Scott Smith was arrested and found guilty of “disorderly conduct” and “resisting arrest in August after police dragged him from the Loudoun County School Board…