On June 30, Oklahoma voters should reject State Question 802 for a host of reasons. First, funding for Medicaid should be not be handled as an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution. It should be more subject to the people and through elected lawmakers. SQ802 not only makes it untouchable for future legislation but it ties…
A former Oklahoma football player is going to prison because of gambling. Blake Ferguson pled guilty to bank fraud after stealing almost $700,000 from his employer, Firstar Bank, to pay off his gambling debts. Ferguson, who was a senior vice president at the bank, was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison. When he gets…
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, wants to control what Americans say about China. Harris, a failed candidate for the Democrat nomination for president, authored a Senate resolution. Her resolution states that calling the coronavirus a “Chinese virus,” the “Wuhan Virus,” and “Kung Flu” has prompted a “dramatic increase in reports of hate crimes and incidents” against…
You know things are bad when Republicans make backroom deals with Democrats to betray a conservative Republican governor. That’s what happened in Oklahoma in May. The Republican-led House and Senate made a “deal with the devil” to overturn the budget bills that had been signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, a genuine conservative. The good old…
When Bill Clinton left the White House, he and Hillary stole some furniture. They had to give it back. As Barack Obama was leaving the White House, he cooked up a Russian hoax to try for a coup by using the Deep State to force President Trump to quit or to be impeached. Obamagate is…
An Oklahoma Muslim group is mad. Why? Because some Oklahoma lawmakers support the Nation Israel, America’s truest ally in the Middle East. The Oklahoma House passed HB 3967, which declares that “Israel is a prominent trading partner of the State of Oklahoma and that the state should not boycott Israel.” The bill prohibits the state…
The liberal Tulsa World has endorsed State Rep. Sheila Dills, R-Jenks, in the June 30 District 69 primary and blasted her opponent, Angela Strohm, R-Jenks. That alone is enough cause to cast a vote for Angela Strohm. For two years, Dills has had one goal – grow government. She enthusiastically voted for the largest tax…
Crooks ply their trade even when America is faced with a deadly disease. The Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission has reported almost 4,000 fraudulent claims since the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March. Scam artists are filing unemployment claims to try to trick state officials into sending them cash cards. They file claims for workers who still have…
The energy industry is getting hit from all sides. First, the Oklahoma Legislature recently raised the wellhead taxes on production of oil and natural gas. You tax want you want less of and this onerous tax was already slowing oil and natural operations around the state. Then the coronavirus hit. Much of America was told…
Densification is the goal of Tulsa’s city planners. What is densification? That’s where the government steps in and slows or stops urban sprawl. Instead of letting people move to single-family homes in the suburbs, they are pressured into living in high-rise apartment buildings in a tight metropolitan setting. This is why city leaders in Tulsa…