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[ Editor’s note: At the 33rd annual meeting of the State Policy Network, OCPA President Jonathan Small received the 2025 Thomas A. Roe Award for Excellence in Leadership. The following is a lightly edited transcript of his remarks delivered Aug. 27 in New Orleans.]
Read moreMen can be such wimps! I have come to the conclusion that after the death of their elderly spouse women seem to have far less trouble than men who lose their spouse. Men just can’t seem to live without a woman in their life but women seem to flourish without a man in theirs. This became obvious to me after seeing four blue haired widows getting smashed on wine Margaritas at Olive Garden, laughing and having such a good time the manager had to come by and ask them to tone it down.
Read moreElizabeth Troutman Mitchell @TheElizMitchell [ Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for “The Daily Signal.”] President Donald Trump slammed artist Bad Bunny for performing “one of the worst” Super Bowl halftime shows in history.
Read moreNotably, Texas has not expanded its Medicaid program to include able-bodied adults, unlike Oklahoma.
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Read moreWhen Oklahoma’s Medicaid program was expanded to include able-bodied, working-age adults in 2020, it set off a fiscal bomb that continues to wreak havoc on state finances today, based on information reported by state officials.
Read moreThe Bible is filled with accounts of powerful people being brought low by those whom they deemed to be of lower status. In Paul’s first Letter to the Corinthians, he states that this is all part of God’s plan: “Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God” (1 Corinthians 1:26-29).
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