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  • Surviving a tornado while on the road

    All Oklahomans know the importance of going to the storm shelter when the tornado sirens sound. But what should a person do when caught in a storm while out on the road?

     

    May 18, 2013

  • Be a good neighbor with pesticide applications

    Being a good neighbor with pesticide applications means thinking first, about what your pesticide application might do to harm your neighbors crops.

    May 18, 2013

  • Bench Warrants

    May 18, 2013

  • Cool vs. un-cool musicians

    Jokes, we know, are no good if you have to explain them. It has happened in my experience that a certain deadness of expression sets in on some non-musicians’ faces upon hearing them because they aren’t in tune (if you’ll pardon the play on words) with the punch lines. They don’t get them.

    May 18, 2013

  • Seizure of AP phone records insult to independent press

    Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.

     

    May 18, 2013

  • AP right to be angry about seized phone records

    The Obama Justice Department is a wonder. It is a frightening wonder, but a wonder nonetheless. Attorney General Eric Holder, ever eager to give terrorists their day in civilian court and so protective of their rights, has no qualms about stomping on the constitutional rights of the press.

     

    May 15, 2013

  • Looking through the miscellaneous file

    I’ve heard historians say that in the so-called primitive cultures the women bear and raise the children, gather and raise food for the family, and prepare the meals.  The men hunt, fish, and tell stories.  Many of you will see there is nothing primitive about this except for the lack of hunting and fishing in some areas.

    May 8, 2013

  • 5-5-13 sounding board

    May 6, 2013

  • This is (not) the end

    May 6, 2013

  • Pentagon wrong to clamp down on religious freedom

    May 6, 2013

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