Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Take back the West

By Michael Oberndorf

CowboyCommunistsOpinion: The events in Nevada this week have made a number of things crystal clear:

1) Our government, at least at the upper management/executive service level, is incredibly corrupt.

2) Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Majority Misleader, is incredibly corrupt.

3) Obama’s Executive Branch that allowed this situation to take place in the way that it did is incredibly corrupt.

4) The judicial branch that has consistently allowed “environmentalists” to dictate public land policy is incredibly corrupt.
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Thought police on patrol

Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer writing in The Washington Post has an excellent column today on the tyranny of political correctness. Krauthammer begins:

Two months ago, a petition bearing more than 110,000 signatures was delivered to The Post, demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming. The petition arrived the day before publication of my column, which consisted of precisely that heresy.

The column ran as usual. But I was gratified by the show of intolerance because it perfectly illustrated my argument that the left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.
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McCutcheon ruling ignores disclosure reality

By Edwin Bender, Executive Director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics

PoliticalConventionOpinion:  The U.S. Supreme Court decisions in both McCutcheon and Citizens United placed great faith in ‘robust’ federal campaign-finance disclosure as an antidote to the corrupting influences of political donations and expenditures.

The problem is, this relies on a faulty view of today’s reality in the 50 states. And we know, based on Citizens United, that McCutcheon will ripple down to the state level.
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Tulsa World editorial defends Rep. Mullin

By David Arnett

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R)Editorial:  Sometimes even Leftists get it right and deserve credit. (Regular readers of Tulsa Today may want to brace themselves.) Unnamed Tulsa World Editorial Writers have defended Rep. Markwayne Mullin against an anonymous complaint of blatant partisanship.

Published today under the title, ”Why is earned income unethical if you’re in Congress?” the piece is coherent even on a subject of accounting. Wow, just when you thought The Tulsa World was only focused on overturning marriage and defending socialism.  The editorial even includes a bit of humor with positive cultural values. Again, wow, this is good stuff.
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Dr. King: Religious Freedom a civil and human right

By Dr. Alveda C. King

Dr. Alveda C. King

Dr. Alveda C. King

Yesterday the SCOTUS heard arguments on two cases, Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods, regarding their lawsuits against the HHS Mandate. Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, led prayers with other pro-life leaders and religious freedom advocates at a rally in front of the Supreme Court Building in support of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods.  Planned Parenthood and others bussed in advocates to rally in favor of the HHS Mandate.

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