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TV torture in Old Europe
For almost a decade, American news readers have been presented with a litany of complaints from Old Europe regarding how the barbaric United States has surrendered its moral authority by introduci...
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Spring Break in the Senate
DURANT – Hello again, everyone! Spring Break is always a special week at the Oklahoma Senate. The combination of a slow week on the legislative calendar and the annual school holiday means chil...
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What’s good for house leaders is bad for members
The Democratic leadership’s struggle to pass the Senate health care bill in the House looks like a great case study for political scientists. They have many examples of the leaders of a party major...
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A fraud fights Fox News
Howell Raines lost his executive editor’s job at The New York Times for promoting the career of Jayson Blair, a black drug addict and fantasist who invented entire stories describing the hills of ...
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Tea party brings energy, change and tumult to GOP
The political commentariat doesn’t know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs of ...
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Talking points vs. reality
In a swindle that would make Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of people to the government-ins...
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Theater woes
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This is in reference to the new movie theater for Durant. I took my granddaughter and one of her class mates Friday to the movies. I have never been so disgusted, the theater had been cleaned, ye...
Students with good character
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In today’s society, so much of the time we all hear about how our teenagers and children are so disrespectful of others. I would like to share about a few teenagers at Durant High School that the o...
Lenten season — Springtime for the soul
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As January came to a close and all the New Year’s resolutions have been made, and perhaps forgotten, it is now a time to look toward another season in which resolutions will be made. This season d...
Funds for libraries
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Dear Editor, The President’s FY 2011 budget proposal to Congress, released Feb. 1, included a $400 billion investment into education but did not include specific funds for school libraries. Even m...
Welcome to Little League
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Dear Editor, As the Little League District Administrator for Oklahoma, I want to welcome the Bryan County Little League as Oklahoma’s newest chartered Little League. Although Little League is not ...
Lead strong
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The month of January marks the annual observance of School Board Recognition Month — a time to salute the work of school board members and celebrate education. The theme of this year’s celebration,...
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NBC’s special victims
by L. Brent Bozell III
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NBC’s "Law & Order" programs are long established and all over the schedule. But the sex-obsessed vice cops of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" are a breed apart. They exist to be socially provo...
Whose values?
by Linda Chavez
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Liz Cheney has stirred up a hornet’s nest. The former vice president’s daughter now runs a group called Keep America Safe, which last week released a video questioning the "values" of Obama Justice...
Crossing the rotunda
by Jay Paul Gumm
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DURANT – Hello again, everybody! Last Thursday was one of the most important deadlines the Oklahoma Legislature faces each year. For the last three weeks, the Senate considered bills written by se...
How many pages needed to let Big Brother know how many in your house?
by Harold Harmon
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Just got my census form in the mail and am pleased to report that I am still just one person. As you no doubt know, these United States of America are in deep stuff. We have no money, no jobs and ...
Dems stuck with a mess of their own making
by Michael Barone
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There’s a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill. Some liberals claim that Democrats would b...
As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition
by George F. Will
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There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes l...
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