A new video shows how Oklahoma law enforcement has, in some cases, become highway robbery. Under cover of law, some police are acting as criminals – stealing stuff for their own use – taking private property from citizens without due process.
A new video has been produced to illustrate the problem. Every citizen of Oklahoman needs to see it.
Sen. James Lankford
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) Tuesday challenged the Department of Education’s legal justification for its May 13 guidance directive to local school districts regarding the use of public school bathrooms. Lankford contends the directive is part of a long pattern of attempts to create new mandates and requirements without the normal, transparent rule-making or legislative process.
Europa
A new NASA study modeling conditions in the ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity.
Europa is strongly believed to hide a deep ocean of salty liquid water beneath its icy shell. Whether the Jovian moon has the raw materials and chemical energy in the right proportions to support biology is a topic of intense scientific interest. The answer may hinge on whether Europa has environments where chemicals are matched in the right proportions to power biological processes. Life on Earth exploits such niches.
Sen. Mike Mazzei
The full Senate voted Monday to approve a group of bills aimed at helping close the budget gap for the 2017 fiscal year. The finance reform measures will generate more than $250 million that can be appropriated in the 2017 budget as part of a comprehensive effort to address the state’s $1.3 billion shortfall.
Senate Finance Chair Mike Mazzei presented the measures on the floor.
Rowanne Brewer Lane
Multiple media outlets are reporting on a New York Times’ article published Saturday with the headline “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private.” It begins with an anecdote from a woman named Rowanne Brewer Lane, who as a 26-year-old model was asked by the businessman if she would like to put on a swimsuit at a Mar-a-Lago pool party (she had not brought a suit).
“But the 1990 episode at Mar-a-Lago that Ms. Brewer Lane described was different: a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew. This is the private treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the up-close and more intimate encounters,” the Times wrote. Brewer disputes the Times report.
