Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Risk, Innovation & The American Dream

By David Arnett

In the first episode of The Hoover Institution‘s new series, Only in America, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice sits down with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang to explore a question at the heart of the American experience: What makes extraordinary achievement possible?

Through the story of NVIDIA‘s rise from a startup founded around a restaurant table to one of the world’s most consequential technology companies, Huang reflects on the freedom, opportunity, and culture of innovation that continue to make America a place where bold ideas can become reality.

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Sowing Good Rodeo Deeds

By David Arnett

The Worldwide brand of agricultural equipment, Massey Ferguson, announced Tuesday the tenth annual Sowing Good Deeds contest. The award recognizes charitable services, community involvement and educational activities of local Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) rodeo committees to their schools, towns and the Ag. Community. Nominations for 2026 are now open and will run through October 15, 2026. Finalists will be announced in early November, with the grand prize winner named at the PRCA Awards Banquet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 2, 2026. The winning rodeo committee receives a new Massey Ferguson tractor with loader, valued at over $60,000, as part of the prize package.

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Pence Backward, Conservatives Forward

By Ken Malloy

Analysis: Former Vice President Mike Pence has a new book out arguing that Republicans need to return to the Reagan-era version of conservatism and move away from the populism associated with Donald Trump. Pence sees Trump populism as a departure from conservative principles. Many conservatives, myself included, see it differently.

The real debate is not whether Ronald Reagan was right for his time. The real debate is whether the world that Reagan confronted is the same world we face today.

Mike Pence Book Tour
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America Chose Disruption

By Charity Linch, Chairman, Oklahoma Republican Party

Analysis: For years, Americans watched Washington operate like a machine designed to protect itself instead of the people it serves. Career politicians promised reform, then governed exactly the same way as their predecessors. Endless bureaucracy, weak leadership abroad, economic uncertainty, and cultural chaos became the accepted status quo.

The American people finally said enough.

That is why Donald J. Trump was elected again.

“Bosses of the Senate” was created by Joseph Keppler and published in The Puck on January 23, 1889. It depicts large, overindulgent businessmen representing their special interests as they loom over tiny senators.
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