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And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Quid Pro Quo
BY RICHARD L. FRICKER
Is Tulsa's City Hall the new Tea Party clubhouse? Is 1st District U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine in more trouble than the...
Calm In The Healthcare Storm
BY FROMA HARROP The bungled launch of the federal health insurance website has unleashed significant disorder – but not everywhere. Life remains calm in many states that set up their own health care exchanges. Some are so confident of the rightness of the health care reforms that they’re rejecting President Obama’s proposal to let people […]
War On Christmas? Spare Me
BY KAREN WEBB
Deliver me from the trumped up "War on Christmas" crusaders. Got another war declaration on Facebook recently. "It's NOT Happy Holidays. It's...
Scammed
BY SHARON MARTIN
Here I am in my 60s, dealing with post-polio, and working fulltime. I have insurance. If I lived in almost any other...
Video Observer: Punitive Oklahoma
Observer editor Arnold Hamilton, left, and longtime Observer contributor Richard Fricker discuss Oklahoma's love affair with a lock-'em-up, throw-away-the-keys approach to corrections which is...