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Crony Capitalism Has Taken Over Oklahoma’s Penal System

Arnold Hamilton - June 20, 2013 2

BY HARRY COATES Former Gov. Frank Keating started a dangerous trend when he allowed Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ inmates to be transferred to private prisons....

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Grid Level Electron Storage

Arnold Hamilton - June 19, 2013 0

BY VERN TURNER While working on my fourth book I came across a topic that works to light up my science geek lights. I...

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It’s back. The Patriot Act – that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors – has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans. Since 2006, Team Bush, and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely powerful National Security Agency to […]

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The Teacher’s Ex

Arnold Hamilton - June 19, 2013 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH She lost her job for reasons having nothing to do with her and everything to do with her ex-husband. Carie Charlesworth is a teacher and a mother. She has 14 years of experience working for the San Diego Diocese and four kids. Her ex is a felon, due to be released from […]

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Another Way We Overpay For Health Care

Arnold Hamilton - June 18, 2013 0

BY FROMA HARROP Little victories in curbing health care costs can add up. In truth, they seem little only next to the titanic $2.6 trillion Americans spend a year on health care. So let us salute them. Case in point, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission [Medpac] proposes ending a ridiculously expensive practice: Medicare paying hospital […]