The Oklahoma State House of Representatives voted Tuesday on a bill to create a revolving fund in the State Treasury for the State Board of Education. This should have been good news for the state currently ranked...
As has been noted on several previous occasions by me, Donald Trump has been entirely successful in one endeavor as he seeks the GOP nomination: Tapping into and fanning the flames of the hatred, racism,...
Last month, an Oklahoma jury found 29-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of rape and sexual assault of 13 Black women. On Thursday, the judge announced that Holtzclaw will spend the rest of his life in prison. To refresh...
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As you might expect, if you operate an abortion clinic in Oklahoma, you probably aren't the most popular person in the world. But when a religious right blogger got word that police officers are working...
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With all of the sadness in the world, including the horrific shooting this week, I thought a little levity might be in order. We all have those family members or friends who are a real pain...
An Oklahoma woman is under arrest after being so drunk while driving that she literally fell out of her pickup truck--which she was driving at the time--and endangering the life of her 3-year-old twin sons,...
Imagine for a moment that your 4-year-old son, who is in preschool, comes home one day and tells you that his teacher has informed him that he must stop being left-handed and switch to his...
We naturally expect right wing Republicans to say patently ridiculous--not to mention inaccurate--things, but I do believe that Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford has now jumped to the head of the class when it comes...
I like to call what the Oklahoma Republican Party did when they got caught red-handed comparing those on Food Stamps to wild animals a non-apology apology. See, they aren't sorry they posted the message below...
The Republican Party of Oklahoma has decided that it would be a good idea to compare Americans who are on Food Stamps to wild animals. So the Oklahoma GOP shared the following on their Facebook page,...
I don't have a problem with people exercising their Second Amendment rights and even having shooting competitions where they fire off their weapons. If that makes them feel more secure or masculine, or whatever good...
May 2015 has been one to remember for residents in Texas and Oklahoma. Record-breaking rainfall has flooded interstates, prompting lakes, creeks, and rivers to dramatically exceed their capacities. Tornado activity has increased exponentially compared to...
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In 1995, a movie called "White Man's Burden" hit the theaters. It was a story about an alternate reality where the middle and upper class was comprised mainly of blacks, while whites were the poor...
An Oklahoma mother who complained about Bibles being given away in?the public schools says she and her family will be moving after receiving numerous threats from other parents for her actions.   The woman, identified only as...
Robert Bates on his way to being booked at the Tulsa County jail (courtesy ABC News)
Last week, the Tulsa World reported that Robert Bates, the reserve Tulsa County sheriff's deputy who killed an unarmed man in a drug sting--supposedly after intending to tase him instead--may have had his training records...
Robert Bates on his way to being booked at the Tulsa County jail (courtesy ABC News)
Back on April 2, Robert Bates, an insurance executive and reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa County, Oklahoma; shot and killed Eric Harris while Harris was cuffed on the ground during a drug sting. Bates said...
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Over the years I had heard many stories concerning atrocities visited upon blacks by whites in just the past hundred years. Black babies being fed to alligators in Florida, the brutal and demonic mutilation and...
The Oklahoma Memorial Union, the University of Oklahoma's student union (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
In case you missed it, earlier this week several members of the University of Oklahoma's chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were caught on video singing that they would never allow a "n***r" to join...
Much discussion has been made about the video showing a racist chant from Sigma Alpha Epsilon members. Many acknowledge it as flat out racism and part of a larger problem in Greek Life and universities...