Dear editor, Suppose…just suppose…the high priests and prophetesses of the religion of Climate Chance (aka Global Warming, aka New Green Deal) saw their dream of no fossil fuels in the United States come true. For the umpteenth time---I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet.
Last month, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom celebrated her seventieth year on the throne. She is the first monarch of the nation to serve this long.
Inflation is at a 40-year high, and House Republicans are working to provide tax relief to Oklahomans this session. The House Rules Committee approved five bills that the Legislature can choose from to grant much-needed financial relief.
Last week was a busy week at the State Capitol with several advocacy groups here and many long committee meetings ahead of Thursday’s legislative deadline. Tuesday was Future Farmers of America (FFA) Day at the Capitol, and members of the Strothers FFA chapter visited the Capitol.
With mail-in voting becoming such an important political issue today, it is worth the time to examine similar issues in history. I have written on this before, but with the blocking of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, it is worth reexamining. The debate is between protecting voting, not from just fraud but from corruption, and allowing all people more access to voting. Then add to the debate the subtext of race and discrimination. This is a difficult dispute, yet, historically speaking, it is not a new one. The last major shift in the voting process had a similar debate between corruption and discrimination.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has drastically miscalculated in launching a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. In effect, he has returned combat and killing to a region largely free of those burdens since the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Dear editor, At the last Shawnee City Commission meeting there was a presentation about establishing a scheduled bus service in Shawnee. This is a subject that has been bouncing around for at least 20 years.
Dear editor, The following may be extreme... but it may not be: If an individual has nothing to die for, he has nothing to live for either.
Dear editor, Russian military assets are steadily enveloping key metropolitan centers in Ukraine as I write. The standard explanation is that Putin fears that Ukraine’s application to join NATO will be accepted and place a hostile military threat on Russia’s border.
The first two weeks of Session have come and gone and it was packed full of meetings with constituents and legislation. As for my involvement in the first two weeks of the Legislative Session, it has primarily revolved around education legislation.