Tahlequah, OK – Dr. John Cox, a long-time teacher and superintendent in Oklahoma is running for the office of State Superintendent.
With multiple advanced degrees in education as well as decades of working in the Oklahoma School System, Cox represents not only the highest levels of professional competence but also a keen understanding of what is needed to fix Oklahoma’s broken school system.
Balancing the budget is the decisive principle that will enable genuine reform of the federal government. Americans will accept substantial changes if they lead to a balanced budget, lower interest rates, lower taxes, a healthier economy, and increased jobs and take-home pay.
We know balancing the budget is achievable because House Republicans successfully led the effort in the 1990s. That initiative resulted in the only four consecutive balanced budgets in the last 100 years.
Practically, reality-based principles can help make balancing the budget achievable again. One crucial principle is the role of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as a scoring mechanism defining the parameters of Congressional success.
On Monday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll joined U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on a tour of Fort Sill. Included in the tour was a visit to Joint C-sUAS University where Senator Mullin showcased how Lawton-Fort Sill is leading the way in equipping our warfighters with cutting edge technology and training.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio Friday issued a Joint Statement of formal rejection by the United States of the 2024 International Heath Regulations (IHR) Amendments by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The amended IHR would give the WHO the ability to order global lockdowns, travel restrictions, or any other measures it sees fit to respond to nebulous “potential public health risks.” These regulations are set to become binding if not rejected by July 19, 2025, regardless of the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that the pre-statehood reservation of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation was never formally disestablished for purposes of federal criminal law, created vast uncertainty, particularly as other “reservations” were discovered.
The question facing Oklahomans: Would McGirt provide tribal governments with civil authority over the state and non-Indians?
