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Oklahoma public nudity law still valid
Maybe the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and the Tulsa Police Department should have a more formal basis for making enforcement decisions than viral news stories. This September 19, 2019, NBC News story about the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, dropping appeals to a challenge to their public nudity ordinance seems...
Michael Willis for Tulsa County Clerk
On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Republican voters in Tulsa County will decide which of two candidates will be our next County Clerk. The incumbent is not running for re-election, and only two Republicans filed for the seat: Michael Willis and Nancy Rothman. Online access to public records is a big...
Rex Berry: Anti-2nd-Amendment atheist for Tulsa County sheriff
It's ridiculous. Tomorrow we'll vote for a sheriff to fill the remaining eight months of the unexpired term of Stanley Glanz, and then a week later candidates will file to run for the full four-year term that begins on January 1, 2017. Glanz resigned effective November 1, 2015. Had he...
Porn, video games, the Internet, anxiety, boredom, and the death of valor
When the Dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a secular philosopher hit the same theme in the same week, it's worth paying attention: First, Dean Russell Moore, writing for Desiring God Blog -- Fake Love, Fake War: Why So Many Men Are Addicted to...
Karl Ahlgren, smear merchant, and his toady, Tom Mansur
Karl Ahlgren's vocation is taking money from political special interests in exchange for smearing people who are obstacles to the special interests's goals. He's done it again today, with a mail piece on behalf of Tom Mansur smearing Steven Roemerman. Contrary to Mansur's claim, Steven Roemerman has not been endorsed...
Nancy Rothman: Where did all the money go?
On July 17, 2011, the Tulsa World ran a story on the 2003 appeals court ruling that levied attorney's fees on Tulsa City Council District 2 candidate Nancy Rothman because of her contemptible attempts to alienate her sons from their father and to smear her ex-husband's reputation. (The story ran...
Court: Nancy Rothman behavior contemptuous; notes false abuse reports, attempt to "setup" ex with child porn
An Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals decision provided to BatesLine reveals that Nancy Rothman, Republican candidate for Tulsa City Council District 2, lost custody of her minor children and was required to pay $70,099 of her ex-husband's court costs and attorney fees in the custody battle because she had been...
Tulsa blog roundup 2010/02/01
Photographer Erin Conrad has decided to blog every day this month: That seems like an appropriate thing to do for the shortest month in the year. Blog every day of it. So perhaps I should try to do the same -- get back in the habit of posting on a...
Piggybacking the overthrow of land-use regulation on eminent domain reform
The Marketplace radio program had a report on eminent domain reform ballot initiatives. In four states, the reform measures have a strange twist: Reforming eminent domain is supposed to be about limiting the government's right to bulldoze a house to put up a freeway or a mall. But some of...
Change of Address: Likelihood of Confusion
Ron Coleman, intellectual property attorney, general counsel of the Media Bloggers Association, and defender of this blog against the threats of the Tulsa World, has moved his blog on intellecual property issues from Blogger to Movable Type and to a new domain, www.likelihoodofconfusion.com. A couple of recent entries of note:...
Pro-life legislation gets a second chance
Several pro-life bills passed the Oklahoma House last month but have been bottled up in committee in the Democrat-controlled State Senate. In his weekly Capitol Update, Rep. Kevin Calvey reports that some of these proposals are going to be considered after all, having been attached as amendments to a Senate...
"Abstinence plus" education gets a grade of STD+
Google News shows nearly 200 news stories covering a study recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The story the mainstream media seems so anxious to report is summed up in the Tulsa Whirled's headline: "Virginity pledges are ineffective in curbing teen STDs, study finds." The story in the...
Darrowing experience
James Lileks had a great "Bleat" on Wednesday, some thoughts about where Clarence Darrow, celebrated defender of Scopes and Leopold and Loeb, and his rejection of moral responsibility have led our society. I liked this paragraph, on the important distinction between public and private conduct (asterisk added): I am the...
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