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March 2023

March 10, 2023

Oklahoma’s Second Thoughts about Marijuana

In 2018, 57% of Oklahoman voted to allow medical marijuana with no restrictions. Now the...

April 2022

April 18, 2022

Oklahoma Bans Abortion

Both pro-lifers and pro-abortionists expect the Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade, so...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Dispatch from Indian Territory

Here in Oklahoma, we woke up a couple of weeks ago to learn that, according...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Google Comes to Pryor, Oklahoma

Since retiring to a small Oklahoma town, such as the one I grew up in,...

January 2018

January 11, 2018

The Osage Murders

We often say of a good book that "I couldn't put it down," a hyperbole...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The “Yellow Dog” Political Fallacy

Republican Roy Moore lost the senate race to liberal Democrat Doug Jones in deeply conservative...

December 16, 2016

Small Oklahoma town thwarts OPEC

Cushing, Oklahoma, is a town of about 7,000 close to where we live. What makes...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Oklahoma feels better now

While the rest of the country was celebrating the 4th of July, my state of...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Kevin Durant breaks Oklahoma’s heart

A pall was cast over the state of Oklahoma as everyone was celebrating the 4th...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Oklahoma gets Bob Dylan archives

Bob Dylan's archives will be housed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, near the Woody Guthrie museum. An...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

Earthquake alley

I was watching TV around 10:30 on Wednesday night when I thought one of grandkids--we...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Why football?

A reporter transplanted from Chicago to work on the Daily Oklahoman who cares nothing for...

September 29, 2014

ISIL-style beheadings come to America

A recent Muslim convert, angry because he had been fired, beheaded a 54-year-old woman and...

August 2014

August 15, 2014

Oklahoma City’s Black Mass

My native Oklahoma is a conservative state, and yet the city manager of Oklahoma City...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

The real Osage County

I grew up in northern Oklahoma, so I've been noting with bemusement how Osage County...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

The Tulsa Sound

J. J. Cale died, the musician and songwriter responsible with Leon Russell for developing the...

June 2013

June 05, 2013

The tornado set a record

One of the tornadoes that hit the Oklahoma City area on Friday was the widest...

June 03, 2013

Dodging tornadoes

Oklahoma City and surrounding communities were struck by multiple tornadoes Friday night, killing nine people. ...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

Tornado destroys Moore, OK. Again.

Growing up in Oklahoma, in tornado alley, I remember hearing that tornadoes, like lightning, never...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief died. perhaps the best-known American dancer in the field of ballet. I confess...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

OK, now it's a depression

The Dust Bowl has returned to my native Oklahoma. A huge dust storm hit Blackwell,...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

The Thunder rolls

As I have confessed in this space, I have pretty much stopped watching basketball, due...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Harvard’s Cherokee professor

George Will sums up how Elizabeth Warren and her Ivy League universities played the diversity...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

Tornado hits my old stomping ground

I was born in Alva, Oklahoma. I have memories of going to Woodward, the biggest...

March 2012

March 12, 2012

Oklahoma Democrats

I blogged earlier about the political beliefs that characterize my beloved natal state of Oklahoma. ...

March 05, 2012

Oklahoma and the “conservative life”

Last Thursday the Washington Post had a big feature article--on the front page, no less--about...

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Anti-fetal cannibalism bill

Oklahoma has a history of passing laws against things that don't exist--such as Shari'a law being...

January 2012

January 17, 2012

If they can’t pass the test, get rid of the test

For all that I love my native Oklahoma, education is not one of its strong...

November 2011

November 11, 2011

Can natural gas ignite the economy?

New technology is unlocking vast amounts of natural gas in the United States, enough to...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Black Cherokees

I grew up in northeast Oklahoma: Cherokee country. Many of my African-American friends growing up...