Funding defenders; are we doing enough?

Updated: The short answer is, “No” and surprising culprits include Oklahoma’s Senator Jim Inhofe and Oklahoma’s Adjutant General, Major General Michael Thompson.  Senator Inhofe chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee.  MG Thompson commands Oklahoma’s frequently deployed National Guard. A recent article from the Heritage Foundation, a few conversations with a DoD engineer and some superficial research looking at things like Gunter’s Space Page have shown clearly that Oklahomans are going to get killed because they won’t have a lifeline and Inhofe and Thompson “ain’t doing squat” about it.  

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No Safe Spaces

The First Amendment and the very idea of free speech are under attack in America today. A growing number of Americans don’t believe you have the right to speak your mind if what you have to say might offend someone, somewhere. They advocate for “safe spaces” in which people won’t be offended by ideas they may find troubling. But is that what America is about?

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Tulsa battles history in mistaken honor

Tulsa’s Leftist mayor and City Council with help from the daily newspaper continues a war on history and fact in today’s coverage of Native American Day yesterday – you remember the day, the national holiday; Columbus Day.

Granted some just hate Italian-Americans or Catholics and some in history like Karl Marx provide foundation for those like Howard Zinn “lamenting Columbus’s discovery of America as the birth of capitalism.” (A People’s History of the United States, New York: Harper 2017)

Quickly understand that a Native American Day in Tulsa is a fabulous idea, but it doesn’t have to happen on a national holiday dedicated to an American Hero.

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