BY KEN NEAL Oklahoma’s senators have the opportunity to hold an honored place in U.S. history. They simply have to oppose a deranged president. Tulsa’s Sen. Jim Inhofe has the most to gain and the least to lose by simply speaking the truth about Donald J. Trump: The president has repeatedly obstructed justice during the…
BY GARY EDMONDSON Glen Huber got me good. It was 1960. Our fifth grade class was going to have a mock presidential election – Kennedy/Nixon. Glen’s family was one of the few Catholic families in our small Indiana town. Our teacher asked for any endorsing speeches. Glen stood up and opened by saying, “I’m not going…
BY SHARON MARTIN The United States has never been kind to all its citizens. The natives of this continent weren’t even granted citizenship, the right to vote, to have a say in governance, until the 1920s. Yes, that includes the heroic Choctaw code talkers of World War I. Slaves were actual property with fewer rights…
BY JOE CONASON Behind the straight-shooting, ramrod demeanor always mentioned by his friends, Robert Mueller possesses a shrewd intelligence. He demonstrated that strategic acuity on Wednesday morning when, with a few carefully selected sentences, he wielded his own reticence to deliver a crushing blow to Donald Trump [and a hard shot to Attorney General William…
BY JOE CONASON Donald Trump is no longer just a persistent object of national shame and revulsion. He has become a threat to the Constitution and the rule of law – and the question before the House, quite literally, is what to do about him. For understandable reasons, the Democratic leadership in Congress has been…
