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Oklahoma Supreme Court 2018: Yes to Wyrick, no to the rest
Conservative political consultant Holly Gerard explains why she'll vote to retain State Supreme Court justice Patrick Wyrick: Patrick Wyrick is my pick to retain - he has been flat-out fantastic. He argued successfully before the Supreme Court in support of the Repeal of Common Core when State School Board Members...
Reformation 500: Sola Scriptura
Reformation begins with the rediscovery of God's Word: And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.... Then Shaphan the secretary told the king,...
Oklahoma 2016 judicial retention
Two State Supreme Court justices, two judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals, and three judges on the Court of Civil Appeals are before the voters for retention. If any of the judges get more no votes than yes votes, he or she will be out of office, and a...
Oklahoma SQ 790: The First Amendment, not Oklahoma's special version
Oklahoma State Question 790 is a legislative referendum which would remove a discriminatory and inconsistently applied provision in the Constitution of Oklahoma that deals with the relationship of religion and government. Its passage would allow the People of Oklahoma through our elected representatives to weigh and balance a variety of...
NSU Women's Studies is an evangelistic enterprise, not an academic discipline
Here is a press release from a month ago about the Center for Women's Studies at Northeastern State University. NSU is funded by the taxpayers of Oklahoma (with additional subsidies from people who shop in Broken Arrow) and governed by the board of regents of the Regional University System of...
The proposed Oklahoma Satan statue
A group of devil worshippers from New York City wants to "donate" a statue representing Satan as a winged, goat-headed creature who is embracing children (presumably intending to defile and/or devour them) to be installed on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol, near a privately-funded monument listing the Ten...
Schusterman Foundation's Cohen: "She [God] was a hacker"
The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, no fan of Twitter and social media, wrote the equivalent of about 400 tweets on the subject recently, including an account of his visit to this year's SXSW. There's a Tulsa connection: Seth Cohen, director of network initiatives at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family...
Found while browsing
About the only brick-and-mortar shopping I do any more is around gift-giving season. I found several books that got me to stop and thumb through them for a few minutes: Tulsa architect and author John Brooks Walton, who has published a series of books on Tulsa's Historic Homes, has several...
Quick picks
I had great plans of producing a post every evening this week, each one highlighting a different race in detail. But the rest of life intruded on those plans, so now I am hurriedly composing a short post, so that tomorrow at church, when friends ask me, "Who should I...
Supremes rule on Ten Commandments
A friend e-mailed asking for comment on the Supreme Court's rulings on the two Ten Commandments cases before it. Very well. Were you really expecting coherent jurisprudence on religious expression in the public realm from this Court?...
<em>Semper ubi sub ubi</em>
I was proud to find myself blogrolled under the heading "eclectic" on a blog called Semper ubi sub ubi. (Ask a Latin-speaking friend for a translation of that profound motto.) Although I'm not a cigar smoker, I like this quote from the top of the page: I have enough trouble...
Convention impact
"The Republicans came to town with the Ten Commandments in one hand and a $100 bill in the other, and they didn't break either." -- New York State Senator John Sabini, Democrat from Queens, in the September 4, 2004, New York Post. Local politicians love to be able to tell...
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