Muneer Awad, speaking for OK CAIR
Last Thursday, September 19, the Oklahoma chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization released a report titled, “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States,” which proposes that anti-Islam groups received more than $119 million in funding between 2008 and 2011. No comparisons to their own funding from the Muslim Brotherhood were included.
Reason.com nails the story as sequestration is back on the agenda with abundant anti-austerity hysteria. They note; Politico, is quasi-blaming the Navy Yard shooting on cuts, the president of MIT says sequestration is “choking the innovation economy,” The Center for American Progress frets that “austerity kills” and even the FBI is threatening a 10-day shutdown.
The beloved leader is quoted whining that cuts “have cost jobs, harmed growth, are hurting our military readiness. And top independent economists say this has been a big drag on our recovery this year. Our economy is not growing as fast as it should and we’re not creating as many jobs as we should, because the sequester is in place. That’s not my opinion. That’s the opinion of independent economists,” President Obama said with authority.
Photo by Kevin Pyle courtesy Tulsa Oilers
The Tulsa Oilers kicked off the final month of the off season on Saturday afternoon at the BOK Center with an open house for the fans that included the announcement of the signing of six players to the Oilers 2013-14 roster.
The Oilers announced the signing of defensemen Craig Cescon and Eric Tallent, goaltender Ross Mackinnon, and returning players Gerome Giudice, Patrick Schafer and Michel Beausoleil.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations for all new coal and natural gas power plants:
“These new regulations from the Obama Administration are not just about crippling the coal industry, but it is part of the larger war on affordable American energy. The excuse for these regulations is climate change, but a new scientific report shows the warming on the Earth’s surface has slowed in the past 15 years.
Governor Mary Fallin
Governor Mary Fallin will join leading energy industry officials as well as key policy makers in Tulsa next month for the third annual Governor’s Energy Conference. The conference will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the Tulsa Cox Business Center in Tulsa.
This year’s conference is presented by the governor and the University of Tulsa Collins College of Business in partnership with the office of the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, the State Chamber of Oklahoma, the Tulsa Regional Chamber and Saxum.
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