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The Keystone Pipeline will be a big boost to Oklahoma and U.S.

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The decade-long fight over Keystone XL, a 1,179-mile underground oil pipeline that would carry crude from Canada to Nebraska, just took another surprising turn. In June, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction and allowed the long-delayed construction project to move forward. But environmentalists quickly threw up new frivolous roadblocks. The U.S. Army…

I never bought a motorcycle and never played football

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Football fever is in the air. I almost played football when I was in the sixth grade at Burbank Elementary School. I went to the first practice and was shown how to get into a three-point stance on the offensive line. “Block the guy on the other side,” the coach barked. I did block him….

All nations – including Israel – should control immigration

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Actually, it has long been accepted that any nation-state has the right to accept or reject any person or persons for whatever reasons it might have.  Would that the United States would return to that principle for our own borders!  Hopefully, the current administration will maintain the course and step up the effort to protect…

My family, friends and church are so very important

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I want to take this space to say thank you to the many who have prayed for me as I walked through the season of stage 4 prostate cancer. I have shared with you everything from my diagnosis, to treatment options, to making the final decision, to having my prostate removed. I had the surgery…

This is August and it is supposed to be hot in Oklahoma

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I used to hate the summer heat. For the first 30 years of my professional life, I wore a coat and tie to work. In the late 1970s, former President Jimmy Carter tried to get professional men to dress less formally to save money on energy. (He also mandated a 55-mph speed limit and neither…

Armed United States citizens contribute to our public safety

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To the credit of the government and chief of police in the recent Ohio shooting, almost, if not all, law enforcement in the area had been activated and they had the perpetrator put out of action in a matter of seconds, thus limiting the number of victims. In El Paso, it turns out that a…

God’s branch office was in a Tulsa Mexican restaurant

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It was my last speaking engagement before my surgery. I was invited to speak once on Saturday night and twice on Sunday at Martha Road Baptist Church in Altus, Oklahoma. I have spoken there several times, and it is the kind of church that blesses you more than you can bless them. It reminds me…

The classification of CO2 as a pollutant was a mistake

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On August 6, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Washington) that it be granted intervenor status concerning the litigation launched by environmental groups against the Trump administration’s new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. The case in question, American Lung Association v. U.S. Environmental…

This is what I did to lose about 40 pounds in 5 months

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I’ve lost about 40 pounds since March 1. Hurray! This is the most weight I have ever lost in one season. When I was 21, I lost 35 pounds at my summer job, which was delivering furniture for Manhattan Furniture. I wasn’t trying to lose weight that summer but it happened. About 10 years or…

Lawbreakers, not guns, are to blame for the recent shootings

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Over the first weekend of August, our nation was once more subjected to not one, but two multiple shooting sprees in gathered crowds.  Of course, the usual uproar of those in the Communist/Fascist/Socialist-believing mob are expected to mount another loud demand for gun confiscation or some form of action to gain the same result.  It…