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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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An Alternative To Book Bans

When I taught in a school without an up-to-date library, the English teacher across the hall and I stocked our own shelves. Before I...

An Electoral Silver Bullet?

It’s official: Oklahoma recorded the nation’s lowest age-eligible voter turnout in the November general election – a Code Red warning that our body politic...

Oklahoma’s Chief Troller

  The Oxford Dictionary’s 2024 Word of the Year actually is two – brain rot – which it defines as “the supposed deterioration of a...

Trump’s Rich Rogues Carving Up American Pie

The New York Times, NBC News and the "legacy media" have got to change with the Trump times – before Donald Trump takes power...

Can Corporate Profits And Morality Be Compatible?

Is "corporate ethics" an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the only path to profit? The...

How To Qualify For Trump’s Cabinet

The trait most broadly shared by Donald Trump's nominees to top Cabinet posts is an utter lack of fitness for their prospective jobs. Most...

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