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

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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?

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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

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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

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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…

Halloween brings out movies with violence, occultism

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When I was a kid, Batman was a TV show and one of his villains, The Joker, was played by actor Cesar Romero. He was a clown who loved to play jokes on people and who got into a little bit of mischief. The Joker never really hurt anyone physically and he was always thwarted…

What kind of last comments did atheists make at death?

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As America and the world experiences the suffering and death from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, some of the saddest quotes you could ever read are historic last words of infamous atheists. Some are defiant as they shake their fist at God one final time and some are distraught, realizing that they are about to face…

George Campbell with his grandson Brian Biggs at the National Senior Olympics in Syracuse, New York.

The Rev. George Campbell was the best father-in-law ever

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The Rev. George Campbell was the best father-in-law a guy could ever have. He passed away September 28. He was 89. In the fall of 1981, I fell in love with his daughter Susan. I was determined to marry this sweet young lady. For Christmas, Susan planned to go home to her folks in Concord,…