Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb

Lt. Governor Todd Lamb began his reelection campaign Thursday in Claremore which continues today in a tour including stops in Ardmore, Bartlesville, Duncan, Enid, Lawton and Ponca City.  Not that unusual for a Lt. Governor that has visited each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties at least once a year during his first term.

A cheering crowd filled the Will Rogers Memorial film room in Claremore where he declared, “Our state is on the cusp of a real renaissance.  The work ethic of our people, a low-tax business environment for entrepreneurs, our Oklahoma standard of caring for our neighbors, and our God given energy resources make for an economic environment that is an example for the rest of America.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The historian Odie B. Faulk, during an evening class in my years at Oklahoma State University,  uttered words that stuck with me through the past four decades: “Nothing is inevitable. Nothing — not the rise and fall of great nations; not the dawning of another day.”

The latter part of the comment appealed to my spiritual side, my belief there is an order to the universe, that a benevolent and just one governs, and that we are subject to that order regardless of wealth, intelligence, or any other attribute.

The first part of the comment appealed to my rational side. What we call history flows from the decisions of actors on the stage … of history. Some are deeply depraved. Others are, as a Baptist preacher friend of mine said years ago, “so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
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