Sooners remain perfect on the season

By Greg Duke, Tulsa Today

OU quarterback Blake Bell looks to throw during Saturday night’s game against TCU

It was a tale of two halves Saturday night, as the 11th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners hosted the TCU Horned Frogs for the first time as Big 12 Conference opponents.

During the first half, OU used a stifling defense to confound TCU, and made just enough plays on offense to take a 13-0 lead into the locker room. The Sooners scored the only points of the opening quarter when Michael Hunnicutt drilled a 39-yard field goal. With the kick, Hunnicutt became OU’s all-time leader in field goals. Coming in to Saturday night’s contest, he was in a three-way tie with former Sooner kickers Tim Lashar and Tim Duncan, with 48.

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Young people aren’t buying Obamacare

By Kathryn Watson, Watchdog.org

Obamacare “only works … if young people show up.”

That’s from former President Bill Clinton in a recent MSNBC interview.

It’s why Obamacare supporters and government agencies are trying everything from sports advertising to video contests to get young people in the game.

But will those millions of Millennials show up and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act?

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Home health services merge

Jordan Health Services (“Jordan”), which provides home health services to patients throughout the state of Texas, and Healthcare Innovations Private Services (“HCIPS”), the largest provider of Medicaid home health services in the state of Oklahoma, announced today they have combined their organizations.

Together, the companies each day will fulfill the personal care, case management, skilled nursing, pediatric, and hospice needs of approximately 22,000 patients in Texas and Oklahoma through 61 locations across both states.
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Rep. Lankford’s government funding update

By Rep. James Lankford (R-Ok)

Thank you to the hundreds of people who have called and emailed my Oklahoma and Washington, DC offices this week to express their views on how to fund the federal government. While the House and Senate are clearly at an impasse on how to proceed, it is clear there are things Americans can agree upon.

There is bipartisan agreement in the House on things we can fund while we work on our differences with the President’s healthcare law. As of Thursday evening, the House has passed five “clean” spending bills in the past twenty-four hours to fund: the Department of Veterans Affairs and their important services, our national parks and monuments, the National Institutes of Health, the District of Columbia and the training programs for our Naitonal Gaurdsmen and women. Our veterans, like our active-duty military, deserve to have access to the services we promised them, regardless of conversations taking place in Washington. The Senate needs to act on these bills to get these services up and running.
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Shutdown blog day 4, sob stories to scare tactics

Update Add Day 4: Breitbart.com is providing a hilarious running account of crisis in government. Yes, the world may end at any moment, but you might as well go down smiling. Only media and politicians take themselves so insanely serious in breathtaking crisis.

Day 4, 11:25 – NBC News Credits Breitbart News’ ‘Echo Chamber’ with Helping GOP Hold Firm

Nothing is funnier than being accused by THE echo chamber of being part of an echo chamber. But that is what NBC News did today in a First Read piece that reeks of frustration over the fact that the mainstream media and NBC News now have competition for the Narrative and are being held accountable for their open- water carrying for Democrats and President Obama.

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