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In April 2022, I learned my old friend, Randy Grellner, was launching a campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by James Mountain Inhofe.
Read more(A column of opinion by Gary Reid, Publisher Emeritus)
Read moreHundreds of parents and students urged lawmakers to enact robust schoolchoice policies this year that will allow Oklahoma families to more easily access private schools and homeschooling, speaking out at a Capitol rally on Thursday.
Read moreFrom Stanford to Israel, mobocracy is winning over deliberation
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It was a warm and sunny March afternoon.
Read moreWhile checking out the “banned and challenged” display at my local Barnes & Noble recently, I was reminded that the entire kerfuffl e is a giant racket. For publishers and booksellers, “banned” books are likely a money-making racket. Virtually every allegedly “banned” book on the display table is already a massive (sometimes generational) bestseller. Not that this reality stops authors like Jodi Picoult, whose books dot virtually every bookstore in the country, from running around pretending their novels are “banned” because a sliver of taxpayers are no longer on the hook to buy them.
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