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Modeling Kansas

Arnold Hamilton - May 20, 2014 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN This summer will mark the 75th Anniversary of the original release of MGM’s Wizard of Oz. It’s amazing to think about my...

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We’re No. 1!

Arnold Hamilton - May 19, 2014 0

BY JOSEPH H. CARTER SR. As precisely as possible, Dr. David Cole of the Georgetown University Law Center summarized a great national problem that, of...

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Whitewashed Rhetoric

Arnold Hamilton - May 19, 2014 1

BY KAREN WEBB An about-face? What about-face? What I see coming from the Southern Baptist pastor's conference isn't even a quarter turn and barely even a glance...

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Sorry, Chicken Little – Oklahoma’s Pension Sky Isn’t Falling

Arnold Hamilton - May 16, 2014 0

BY JOHN R. WOOD "Oklahoma faces a pension crisis," said House Speaker Jeff Hickman, R-Fairview, regarding the estimated $11.5 billion dollars the state owes its...

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It Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test

Arnold Hamilton - May 15, 2014 0

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The 43-minute death struggle of Clayton Lockett is now Oklahoma history, a story still unfolding. Lockett, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Attorney General Scott Pruitt bring to mind Stephen Glass, the New Republic magazine writer, who was discredited in 1998 when it was discovered he fabricated his sources. Glass fell from […]

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