Tag Archives: The Oklahoman

Going Down, Down, Down . . .

  The Oklahoman published a disingenuous, unsigned editorial Friday about taxes that deserves a response because of a misleading statement that reflects right-wing, clichéd dogma but simply isn’t true. The editorial (“Searching for ways to make tax policy more ‘fair,’” Sept. 30, 2011) makes some superficial observations about the issue of fairness in the country’s

Swear to do what?

In a letter The Oklahoman published May 18, Stan Williamson expressed something.  What exactly rather eluded me, but he started out relating how Thomas doubted Jesus’s resurrection and then somehow tied that to the mission authorized by President Obama that killed Osama bin Laden.  Mr. Williamson seemed to think the mission should not have been

A Case of Selective Outrage: An Open Letter to The Oklahoman

Save Affirmative Action in Oklahoma. Vote NO on SQ 759! Normally I don’t pay much attention to “open letters”–open letters to the President, open letters to legislators, etc. I always question the motives of the writer and ask, “Why didn’t they just send their letter directly to the addressee?” So, I’m certain that someone is asking, “Why?”

Just Say No… to school buses???

This may be one of the most baffling editorials I’ve ever read from The Oklahoman.  Apparently the tentacles of big government are just getting too involved in our lives by offering something silly like transportation for Oklahoma’s children to get to and from school.  One cannot (seriously, anyway) simultaneously claim to care about the education of

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