Smoke & Guns MMA Event @ BOK

By David Arnett

Oklahoma firefighters take on Oklahoma police officers in the 11th annual Smoke & Guns Charity MMA and Boxing event, presented by QuikTrip on Saturday, April 25 at BOK Center. In this one-night only event, Tulsa’s best will go toe-to-toe in the ring to benefit the Oklahoma Firefighters Burn Camp and Special Olympics of Oklahoma. Throughout the history of this event, 918 Fully Involved has donated over $500,000 dollars to Special Olympics of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Firefighters Burn Camp.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 6 at 10AM and will be available online at www.bokcenter.com. 

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Nationwide Freedom Plane Tour

By Staff Report

The Freedom Plane National Tour departed Monday from Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, bound for Kansas City, Missouri on a customized Boeing 737. This nationwide tour, organized by the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) and part of the nationwide celebration being led by Freedom 250, is an unprecedented exhibition that brings rarely seen founding-era documents and history to Americans in every corner of the United States to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary.

The Freedom Plane’s first stop will be at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, where the documents will be on display from March 6 through March 22. Admission is free and open to the public.

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WalletHub: OK 2nd Worst State?

By David Arnett

It is aggravating to read how some statisticians judge America. They remind that daily life includes lies, damn lies, and statistics. WalletHub is most zealously active in establishing statistical sets which make news. The validity of their judging criteria, however, is frequently challenged. Today’s example highlights Women and proclaims Oklahoma is the “2nd Worst State for Women in 2026.”

To identify the most women-friendly states, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 25 key metrics. The data set ranges from median earnings for female workers to women’s health care to the female homicide rate. Our reading suggests, they are not valuing women who choose to be mothers as equal to feminists. Could that be bigotry?

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Totalitarianism: Kelley, Arendt, and Desmet

By Robert W. Malone MD, MS

Comparative Analysis

The question of how ordinary societies produce extraordinary evil; how democratic nations slide toward authoritarian domination, how ordinary people become perpetrators or willing followers, has occupied some of the most important minds of the past century.

Three thinkers in particular have approached this question from angles that intersect in revealing ways: Dr. Douglas Kelley, the American psychiatrist who examined the Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-46 and published 22 Cells in Nuremberg in 1947; Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish political philosopher who analyzed the structural conditions of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism(1951) and its human face in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963); and Mattias Desmet, the Belgian clinical psychologist who argued in The Psychology of Totalitarianism (2022) that a psychological process he calls “mass formation” underlies totalitarian systems and remains active in the contemporary world.

Kelley, Arendt, and Desmet
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Apps Must Put Parents First

By Monica Collison, Executive Director, ORA

Opinion: It is critically important to declare support of the federal App Store Accountability Act. At its core, this legislation is not about restricting innovation or limiting opportunity. It is about reinforcing a simple, foundational principle: parents, not tech companies and not the government, should have the primary authority to decide what their children can access online.

In rural Oklahoma, families often rely heavily on smartphones and tablets as their primary digital access point. For many households, especially those without multiple devices or robust parental control tools, app stores serve as the front door to the internet. Yet currently, children can download apps, create accounts, and access social media platforms with minimal age verification and little meaningful parental involvement. That model does not reflect Oklahoma’s family-first values.

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