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Facing the threat of a lawsuit and encountering widespread public backlash and ridicule, the Biden administration has backed down in its efforts to effectively force the closure of an Oklahoma Catholic hospital because it maintains a “living flame” candle in its chapel.
Read more“If you buy a car,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, “you are expected to pay the monthly payment. ... It’s that simple.”
Read moreThe past five weeks has seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union and likeminded groups have filed a lawsuit to overturn a new state law that bans the provision of hormone blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as sex-change surgeries, to Oklahoma children younger than 18.
Read moreMay California’s fads stay there
Read moreMANY STATES DO NOT FUND PBS
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s recent decision to veto legislation reauthorizing the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) entity, came as a surprise to many.
Read moreWhen he was hired as president of the University of Oklahoma in 2020, Joseph Harroz’s contract promised him a salary of around $500,000 annually, according to one public report. That’s an average of $1,369 per day.
Read moreI’ve had some crappy jobs in my life. I’ve picked citrus with a bracero crew from Mexico and I’ve waded through pig poop for less than minimum wage but by far the worst job I’ve ever had was shearing sheep. I did it because I could shear on weekends and evenings when I wasn’t working in the oilfields. You could say, sheep helped pay for my sheepskin. (Are they even called that anymore? ) I always arrived on time and wired my motor to the cattle racks on my grandpa’s old Ford Econoline which embarrassed me to even be seen inside the cab which, by the way, I shared with the motor. I’m not exaggerating... THE MOTOR WAS INSIDE THE CAB! Don’t ask me why I would one day pay grandpa $600 for the only truck I’ve ever owned that wasn’t a GM product. But I gotta say, as long as you kept the windows open to avoid asphyxiation, old Herbie was the best pickup I’ve ever owned.
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