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Al Clauser and His Oklahoma Outlaws and Patti Page
Another blog article started long ago, July 26, 2021, but never quite finished, until now. In 1982, Oklahoma was celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Diamond Jubilee of statehood, and it was one of the focuses (along with Korea) of the Smithsonian Institution's 1982 Festival of American Folklife. The program book...
Tulsa redecorates Golden Driller, begs for Tesla
It's cringe-worthy. Some persons, apparently with the permission of the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority, painted the Tesla logo on the chest of the Golden Driller, and painted the name Tesla on his belt buckle, over the word Tulsa. If that weren't bad enough, used some kind of wrap to...
Australian rules football
The Tulsa Buffaloes Australian Rules Football team will play Des Moines this Saturday, September 10, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Veterans Park, 21st & Boulder Ave. The word "football" in Australia can have five different meanings, each of which corresponds to a different professionally-played sport: 1. Gridiron football -- what...
QuikTrip favorite convenience store chain, Wawa tops in coffee
Market Force Information polled over 5,000 consumers for a study of convenience store preferences. Tulsa-based QuikTrip had the highest "Composite Loyalty Score" at 79%, followed closely at 74% by Wawa, a 645-store chain founded 50 years ago in the Pennsylvania township of the same name and dominant in the mid-Atlantic...
AG Scott Pruitt on Oklahoma's Obamacare suit
Friday, at Americans for Prosperity's Defending the American Dream Summit in Dallas, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt sat down with the BatesLine team for a wide-ranging conversation about the issues that his office is pursuing on behalf of Oklahomans. Pruitt discussed the EPA's proposed expansion of the definition of "waters...
Iowa caucuses: In defense of "arcane rules"
BatesLine photo of a front porch with bunting in Clear Lake, Iowa, September, 2008 Smitty at The Other McCain links to a Buzzfeed story about Ron Paul's strategy to dominate caucus states: Paul is following the roadmap set by Barack Obama's 2008 strategy: Start early, learn the rules, and...
Iowa caucuses: On-the-ground coverage
Stacy McCain arrived in Iowa early last week, wearing out tires and shoe leather in search of underreported stories. (His archive of coverage is tagged "Fear and Loathing in Iowa.") McCain anticipated the Santorum surge, which seems to be peaking at just the right moment for tomorrow night's straw poll....
QuikTrip leaves Springfield, Mo.
This is old news, but new to me. We're just back from a brief fall break jaunt to Table Rock Lake, a short trip that included brief stops in Siloam Springs and Eureka Springs on the way there, paddleboating, playing at tennis (and violin) in a giant bubble, a providential...
Livable Green Country
A couple of nice accolades: Forbes named Tulsa the 5th most livable city in America, just ahead of Oklahoma City in 6th. The top 10: Portland, Me. Bethesda, Md. Des Moines, Ia. Bridgeport/Stamford, Conn. Tulsa, Okla. Oklahoma City, Okla. Cambridge, Mass. Baltimore, Md. Worcester, Mass. Pittsburgh, Pa. The criteria: To...
Tulsa Tea Party coverage
I couldn't be at Veterans Park myself for yesterday's Tea Party -- too much to do at work -- but plenty of people were and have posted stuff on the web to tell you all about it. Jenn Sierra has posted photos of the Tulsa Tea Party. You'll find a...
Des Moines farmers' market
I broke the journey back from St. Paul into two legs, was later than planned getting out of town, and that put me in downtown Des Moines Saturday morning. I didn't have time for a look around on the way up, so I took time on the way back. I...
Creepy Romney, creepy Rollins
Romney ad, vapid and creepy at the same time: Via Ross Douthat, who writes: With five or so hours to go till the Iowa Caucuses, Mitt Romney has to be judged the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, but it's awfully hard to find anyone not named Hugh Hewitt who seems...
Iowa caucus notes
Some notes from tonight's Iowa coverage: Republican results are here on iowagop.net, which features an interactive map showing results by county. If their server is swamped, try the Washington Post site instead. You can find Democratic statewide results here at iowacaucusresults.com. The site also has precinct results by county for...
Iowa Republican precinct caucuses: The nitty-gritty details
The presidential straw poll that will get most of the attention at Thursday night's Iowa precinct caucuses is only a small part of the business that Republican voters will conduct. On the home page of the Polk County Republican Party website, chairman Ted Sporer outlines what will happen at caucus...
Stop the hand shows!
If you've been thinking about supporting Fred Thompson's campaign, today would be a great time to do it. The Fred '08 campaign is looking for 2400 donors in 24 hours. From the campaign website: Running for President is serious business. We're facing pressing issues like national security, bankrupt entitlements, a...
<em>Des Moines Register</em> Republican debate
You can watch all of yesterday's Des Moines Register Republican debate in chopped-up YouTube segments at the paper's website. The paper's political columnist, David Yepsen, thought Fred Thompson had the best debate: But it was Thompson, the former Tennessee senator, who was specific, good-humored and exuded an executive persona during...
Better Hillary than Huckabee?
A sampling of alarm and concern from conservative, pro-life bloggers about Mike Huckabee's views on foreign policy: The editors of National Review worry about a repeat of the late '70s. On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of "proceeding down only one track with Iran:...
Blogging the Iowa caucuses
The Iowa caucuses are less than a month away, and you may be thinking, "Are there any bloggers in Iowa that can give us a perspective on the caucuses that we won't get from national media?" There are indeed. Russ from Winterset, an Iowan active in Republican politics and a...
Presidential update: Rudy, Newt, Fred, believers
Bits and pieces: Here's a website dedicated to the proposition that Rudy's Really Liberal. Quotes from Mr. Giuliani on a variety of topics, including his rather callous views on abortion. WMCA talk show host Kevin McCullough doesn't think much of Newt Gingrich's assertion that private lives should be off limits...
Arena: An ungracious beginning
UPDATE 9/6/2005: Bobby has reorganized and purged Tulsa Topics, so with his permission, I've taken his audio of the speech, reduced the fidelity to radio quality to get the size down, and uploaded it here (4 MB MP3). UPDATE 9/7/2005: Bobby has reposted the groundbreaking audio in both MP3 and...
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