BY JIM HIGHTOWER Coca-Cola is running a stealth advertising campaign. Stealth? Yes, it’s a nationwide product promotion that’s being run below the public radar! Why would a corporation as ad-dependent as Coke spend big bucks on advertising that it doesn’t want consumers to notice? Shhhh – because the campaign is a surreptitious ploy to enlist […]

BY SHARON MARTIN The day before Thanksgiving, the road to Stillwater buzzed with working people, thanks to an economy that has steadily improved since 2008....

BY FROMA HARROP We know that about 20,000 pseudo-, semi- and real journalists “cover” Washington. We know that mid-December is slow-time in the nation’s capital as the public turns its attention to the holidays. But big news or no, the scriveners tending political websites must still, as they say, “feed the beast” and take it […]

BY DON NELSON Current events often trigger my thought. We have lost a significant human being in Nelson Mandela. He fought against Apartheid in his...

Observer Editor Arnold Hamilton, left, and longtime contributor Richard L. Fricker discuss Advent Season politics: the phony War on Christmas, proposed Satanist monument at...