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Sorry, Oklahoma Lawmakers, You Can’t Blame DC This Time

Arnold Hamilton - April 22, 2015 0

BY KENNETH WELLS Oh what a week it was! Oklahoma’s Republican-led Legislature’s position to continue with recent tax cuts and tax giveaways they have put into...

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‘Dr. Evil’ Turns Out To Be ‘Dr. Silly’

Arnold Hamilton - April 22, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Big Oil, labor exploiters, industrial food factories, frackers and other corporate profiteers have been paying a lot of money to a man that celebrates himself “Dr. Evil” – the scourge of all progressive groups! But Rick Berman is not a doctor, not evil and not a scourge. While he is a wholly […]

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Congress Acts

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Has a fever come over Washington? It seems like every time I turned around last week, Congress – or at least some subset of it – was actually doing something. Was it just Thursday that they were agreeing to let the president try to negotiate within the framework of a nuclear deal […]

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Cut, Cut, Cut

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2015 0

First of Three Parts BY JOE DORMAN I have watched with great interest the budget discussions occurring inside the state Capitol. Not surprisingly, the number of...

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Fighting Robots With Robots

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP So machines are now able to assess a human’s mood. “Emotion detection software” has put robots one step closer to replacing the humans who work – or used to work – in what we in the olden days called “customer relations.” Assuming that you, dear reader, are a human and not a […]