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As part of my ongoing “Take An Urbanite Outdoors Program” I recently took an 18-year-old boy outdoors at the request of his parents who are worried that playing video games and texting with his friends 14 hours a day might somehow inhibit his development. I met Drew at his bio-containment facility (house) as the Covid crises was easing and where he’d been sheltering in place for the past 18 years.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Va.) has caved to pressure from his party and now supports more reckless spending as proposed by Team Biden.
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A favorite game of politicians, when reality does not conform to the facts they want, is to simply redefine reality.
Read moreThe history of federal-tribe relations is littered with tales of broken treaties. But a U.S. Senate hearing flipped the typical script this week as lawmakers considered whether five Oklahoma tribes have been violating their treaties for more than 100 years by denying citizenship to the descendants of their former black slaves.
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Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, the state of Oklahoma and the United States of America lost a great citizen Saturday with the death of Mike Johnson, 78.
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When I walked into The Lacey Store in the early 1980s the town’s mayor, Homer Mauck, introduced himself.
Read moreThe first thing to remember about the reconciliation bill Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer agreed to Wednesday is that, despite its utterly preposterous name, it has absolutely zero to do with inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing and tax hikes that were part of Build Back Better – long-desired progressive wish-list agenda items. Pumping hundreds of billions into the economy will do nothing to alleviate inflation. The opposite.
Read moreAs I write this the Washington Redskins are going through very public agonizing spasms trying to come up with a new name that doesn’t offend anyone. One of the suggestions was The Washington Navajo Code Talkers, this despite the fact that Washington DC is 2,000 miles off the reservation. If Washington DC really wanted an appropriate name they’d call themselves the Washington Crooks, or the Washington Swindlers. By the time you read this the Redskins will have a new politically correct name and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Washington BLM Muslim Socialists. After the Redskins change their name can the Atlanta Braves, Golden State Warriors, Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Indians be far behind?
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