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Oklahoma's female governor signs bill tripling the wait period for an abortion
Republican Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill Wednesday requiring women to wait three days (72 hours, to be exact) before getting an abortion. Oklahoma is the fourth such...
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The white riot that burned Greenwood to the ground
Smoke billowing over Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921 The Oklahoma"where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain" didn't smell of wheat. It smelled of over 300 dead black bodies, homes and businesses burned in a...
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Oklahoma Supreme Court: Public Ten Commandments Monument Must Come Down
Classy monument you got there.From the AP:Oklahoma's Supreme Court says the Ten Commandments monument at the state Capitol must be removed because it indirectly...
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They Are Greeting President Obama with Confederate Flags in Durant, OK
President Obama will be in Durant, Oklahoma today to announce the ConnectHome program, which promises to bring high-speed internet access to low-income communities across America, particularly those in...
View ArticleOklahoma Is Being Destroyed By Republicans
As of this writing, a barrel of oil is up over three dollars to over forty two. Is this the beginning of the rebound in Oil? My guess is NO. The fact that the first number on oil has been a three or...
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Democratic woman picks up dark red Oklahoma state House seat once held by the...
Something pretty crazy happened on Tuesday night in Oklahoma: Democrat Cyndi Munson defeated Republican Chip Carter 54-46 in a special election for a state House district that Mitt Romney carried by...
View ArticleFollowing too closely... It happened in Oklahoma
I want to tell you two stories about traffic stops in our wonderful state of Oklahoma.The first involves the attitude of being in a position of privilege. The wife of an Oklahoma State Senator was...
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42 Quakes M2.5+ Rock Oklahoma & S Kansas in 7 Days: 17% of world's earthquakes
Oklahoma and south Kansas had seventeen percent of the world's earthquakes M2.5 or greater in the past 7 days as of noon Oct. 16, 2015. Deep well injection of oil and gas waste has turned a seismically...
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Husband of Oklahoma mayor dresses as KKK for Halloween, complete with torches...
Cary Sharp and friend in white robes holding torches next to a cross. Theresa Sharp—the mayor of Lahoma, Oklahoma—is facing scrutiny after photos of her husband, Cary Sharp, surfaced in one of the most...
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Legal challenge ties fracking companies in Oklahoma to state's meteoric...
In a new approach to challenging fracking, the legal group Public Justice and the Sierra Club on Monday jointly filed a "notice of intent to sue" four companies that engage in the practice of hydraulic...
View ArticleOklahoma's multiple botched executions may be linked to similar errors in...
All three of Oklahoma's recent attempts to execute prisoners have gone wrong. In the most horrific instance, an inmate sat up and talked to his executioners after they had declared him unconscious....
View ArticleWeek two of trial for alleged rapist cop ends
The trial of Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer accused of assaulting 12 women and one female minor, has concluded its second week of testimony today. Holtzclaw faces life in...
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The Racist Page Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) "Likes" on Facebook
Screenshot showing that Rep. James Lankford "likes" a racist Facebook page with lynching imagery called "Outraged Patriots" A friend of mine recently pointed out that Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) "likes"...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Oklahoma Democrat pulls off miracle upset in dark red state...
Leading Off:●Special Elections: Blue lightning has struck twice out on the Great Plains: On Tuesday night, Democrat J.J. Dossett won a special election for the state Senate in Oklahoma by a healthy...
View ArticleOklahoma begins the year trying to destroy its children's public education
The job of the legislative branches in our nation is to make laws. Some of these laws are good and some of them are bad. Oklahoma love to make bad laws for education. As Arstechnica points out, 2016 is...
View ArticleOklahoma lawmakers push 26 ways to discriminate against gay and transgender...
Last year, Texas set a record with 23 anti-LGBT bills. But this year Oklahoma is nipping at the Lone Star state’s heels with 26 of its own egregious bills. Troy Stevenson of Freedom Oklahoma walked...
View ArticleBernie Speaks to 6,000 in Oklahoma City Today, Sounding More Confident Than Ever
Since no one else is reporting on this, I guess it’s up to me. I went with my daughter to the Bernie Sanders Rally in Oklahoma City today. Some takeaways: The Cox Convention Center venue was mostly...
View ArticleMeet the Oklahoma state senator who just authored a bill making abortion...
Oklahoma’s state Senator Joseph Silk is known for a few things. He’s the youngest state senator in Oklahoma history—entering the Oklahoma Senate last year at the tender age of 29. He is shiny! He hates...
View ArticleOklahoma lawmakers send bill pulling licenses of doctors who perform...
Abortion remains legal nationwide despite being ever more hampered by forced-birther machinations. It therefore seems impossible that the bill just passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives to...
View ArticleFacing economic disaster, Oklahoma reverses course on Medicaid expansion
Oklahoma's Republican majority has steadfastly opposed Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, with Gov. Mary Fallin rejecting an estimated $3.6 billion in federal funding between 2012 and 2019. That's all...
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