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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, April 27, 2024

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OU On My Mind

I've been very lucky to be allowed to lead 62 different courses for adults over the last 10 years. I get to participate in...

Walters And Stitt: Tweedledee And Tweedledum[b]

State Superintendent Ryan Walters is making noise on a fiddle while his agency burns. More and more employees of the Oklahoma State Department of Education...

Whiplash Week 2024

If you look up the word “killjoy” in the dictionary, you’ll find a group photo of this year’s Republican legislative supermajority. In less than 24...

When Moral Hygiene Becomes A Lethal Mistake

Historical analogies rarely carry much weight, especially in a time when so much about politics has changed so rapidly. To compare what is happening...

Did Legalized Abortion Lead To Lower Crime Rates?

Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that...

Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!

If you think the GOP's Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us – you haven't...

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