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It’s sad to think this, BUT…
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Wasps decided to chase me off the front porch the other night after I watered my flowers, but I put up a good fight with the water hose. The water chased them away, and I noticed they’d built two houses and a condo on brick next to the porch light.
Read morePolitical progressives who favor the expanded use of mail-in balloting have been telling the American people not to pay attention to that man on Twitter who sees a potential connection between their proposals and massive voter fraud.
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Dr. Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century. On June 30, he will have completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930. As part of the great black migration northward during the 1930s and ‘40s, he and his family moved to Harlem, New York. Sowell attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School but dropped out. In 1951, he was drafted into the military and assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps where he became a photographer. Photography remains his hobby today.
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The Fourth of July is a day packed with emotion for me as it celebrates the founding of our nation and the ideals upon which it was founded: liberty, freedom, justice, fair representation and so much more. This emotion – shared by the entire nation – spills out into expressions of celebration such as parades, patriotism, picnics, fireworks, gatherings of friends and family and so much more. You witness the most outlandish displays of red, white and blue on this day, and I enjoy every bit of it.
Read moreOne of the talking points of the pro-S.Q. 802 crowd is that expanding Medicaid and obtaining the federal money offered to join the Obamacare program will create an economic boom in the state.
Read moreThe only state question on the June 30, 2020, primary ballot is Oklahoma State Question 802. This would create a new Constitutional Amendment, Article XXV-A, requiring the State of Oklahoma to offer Obamacare Medicaid expansion coverage to anyone below a certain income, regardless of the person’s work or family status. While expansion brings in some additional federal funds, it also brings in heavy longterm liabilities that the state must meet, which would result in higher taxes, cuts in other state-funded services (e.g. education), or both.
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While in the drivethrough line at the Chickfil-A I kept time on the steering wheel to the music with my credit card.
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