Rock legend Ted Nugent interviewed with CNN’s Piers Morgan in a Texas gun shop to talk, well, guns. As most would expect, Morgan began baiting Nugent by asking “in the least inflammatory way possible,” to explain why any American needs to own an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
After first offering prayers to the Chris Kyle and Littlefield families, Nugent told Morgan to “take it to the bank” that he would never understand the true purpose of firearms.
The Tulsa Oilers have managed to figure out how important it is to win and they have four straight wins at home under their belt to prove it, four out of the last five games in all and good considering wins this season have been few and far between.
Since January 22nd, with the exception of a 5-0 drubbing in Missouri against the Mavericks, the Oilers have posted key wins against some of the Central Hockey League’s top teams and one of the teams they are chasing to claim the 8th and final playoff position.
The Oilers took on the Arizona Sundogs on January 22nd and posted a 4-2 victory.
Goals from Ben Gordon, Ryan Barlock, Michel Beausoleil and Kyle OKane bested the Sundogs in regulation time. Unfortunately, the winning spirit could not be sustained into the next game, where the Missouri Mavericks gave the Oilers a solid 5-0 beating at home in Independence. The best part of that game for Tulsa was that goaltender Dan Clarke stopped all 13 shots he faced in relief of starter Shane Madalora, who turned aside 28 of 33 shots and allowing the five goals.
Earlier today, in this year’s State of the State address, I outlined an agenda for the coming legislative session that will help to continue Oklahoma’s remarkable economic growth and job creation.
In recent years, Oklahoma’s state government has played a vital supporting role to the private sector, helping to promote a business friendly environment that has lead to a net gain of over 62,000 jobs created since 2011. Unemployment is down, median income is rising, and the state Rainy Day savings account has gone from $2.03 to almost $600 million.
My role as governor is to keep the pedal to the metal, so to speak, and ensure that Oklahoma is well positioned in a national and international economy that is more competitive than ever.
Opinion: Despite the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, many of us were too busy seeing patients to hear President Obama’s second inaugural address. It was less painful to read the transcript.
“What binds this nation together is not the color of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names,” he stated. Then let’s end the government’s obsession with African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans (but never European-Americans). We are all Americans. I feel some moral authority and passion on this subject as a black American whose family moved here from England in the 1600s. I am a full-blooded American!
I can’t bear to hear one more person say, “I’m so glad we have an African-American President.” How ironic: Martin Luther King, Jr., urged that we judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
House Republican Policy Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) expressed frustration Friday after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which attempts to clarify the definition of a religious institution. It also attempts to accommodate religious objections to the recent regulations that employers must provide their employees contraceptives at no cost.
“The Administration now understands that the contraceptive regulation invented last year by Health and Human Services (HHS) is a clear violation of the First Amendment right to religious freedom for some businesses,” said Chairman Lankford. “The new definitions and accommodations establish a redefined level of religious freedom Americans may expect under this Administration, if their religious preferences differ from the President’s.”
The HHS regulation (2013-02470), which could change at the whim of any future Administration, establishes essentially three categories of religious institutions. Two of the institutions have some religious protection. One type of institution has little or no religious protection.