Oklahoma Senate okays most extreme forced-birther law yet: It makes abortion...
Oklahoma lawmakers have been on a tear the past few years to make theirs the state with the craziest forced-birther laws. Thursday they achieved that goal by passing Senate Bill 1552, to make abortion...
View ArticleI'm a Proud Oklahoma Democrat Tonight (with must watch video)
I rarely write diaries because I have severe writing anxiety, so if this diary is poorly written, I sincerely apologize, but this is something that had to be shared.Due to the oil bust in Oklahoma,...
View ArticleOklahoma mandates forced-birther propaganda in schools, but omits mention of...
When it comes to forced-birther laws, it’s hard to keep up. The state of Oklahoma is especially prolific, even though several of its laws seeking to curtail abortion have been overturned by the courts....
View ArticleMajority of Oklahomans support ending the death penalty
A majority of Oklahomans would support abolishing the death penalty, according to a new poll.Campaign ActionThe numbers are encouraging for advocates and citizens fighting to end the death penalty, but...
View Article20 Minutes Into The Future: The Great Oklahoma Earthquake
The following is a work of fiction, and this must be stressed. But unlike other disaster movies such as San Andreas, the earthquake depicted here is actually plausible—and worse, avoidable. The damage...
View ArticleOklahoma Supreme Court tosses out yet another of the state's forced-birther laws
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has a long record of blocking or overturning anti-abortion laws in the state. Tuesday, it did it again, unanimously ruling that Senate Bill 642 is unconstitutional. The law...
View ArticleIn Oklahoma, the Worms are Turning.
In deepest Oklahoma, something unusual just happened. When I say “unusual”, what I mean is a shift that is big enough to knock the planets out of alignment, and I am not talking here of just another 5+...
View ArticleLawsuit alleges lax supervision at private prison led to man's death
The family of Kyle Tiffee, an inmate at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma, has filed a lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) over Tiffee’s death and what it...
View ArticleVoting Early in Oklahoma
I voted by mail yesterday for Hillary Clinton.As you might expect, the great state of Oklahoma does not make it especially easy to vote by mail. It’s true you can request a mail-in ballot online,...
View ArticleYet another earthquake in Oklahoma
Cushing, Oklahoma was rocked by an Mw5-Mw5.3 earthquake last night.The earthquake’s epicenter was located just 2 miles west of the city. Cushing is of note because it is the pipeline crossroads of the...
View ArticleOklahoma hit by another fracking earthquake
Oklahoma’s string of man-made earthquakes continued with an new quake near the town of Cushing.A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world's key oil hubs brought down building facades and...
View ArticleDemocrats get crushed in the Sooner State, but Oklahoma City is trending bluer
Our project to calculate the presidential election results by congressional district makes a stop in Oklahoma, which recently certified its official results. (Ballotpedia has a list of state...
View ArticleOklahoma Republicans mandate new anti-abortion signage in the state's public...
As part of the Republican Party's ongoing efforts to turn America into a society based on The Handmaid's Tale (if it had been written by George Orwell), Oklahoma Republicans have forced through some...
View ArticleThe Last Sane Republican in Oklahoma
(Originally appeared in The Tulsa Voice)Disclosure: Carol Bush and I have been friends for 35 years, ever since she owned Beach Party, a surf shop on Brookside, in the 80s. She arrives at Old School...
View ArticleTrump's SCOTUS pick: Terribly botched lethal injection execution just an...
Campaign ActionNo wonder Republicans love him: Neil Gorsuch really is Baby Scalia. Like his idol, he's a good Catholic—until it gets to the question of the death penalty. There, he's just as ghoulish...
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Activists report that Oklahoma oil and gas injection wells threaten state's...
Clean Water Action, a 45-year-old eco-advocacy group that opposes hydraulic fracturing, has released a 16-page report that argues Oklahoma regulators are ignoring risks to underground sources of...
View ArticleWhoa: Trump carried this Oklahoma district by 50 points. On Tuesday, the GOP...
Wow. On Tuesday night, voters in two counties on the eastern outskirts of Oklahoma City cast ballots in a special election to fill a vacancy for Oklahoma’s 28th State House District, a seat Republicans...
View ArticleAs the state faces financial crisis, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett joins...
On Wednesday, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett announced that he would join the GOP primary to succeed termed-out Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin. Cornett’s move was a surprise, though it didn’t...
View ArticleTulsa Sheriff's 'Reserve Deputies' mysteriously amass impressive track record...
The week of March 26 wasn’t an extraordinarily busy one in GunFAIL terms. But it had an interesting mix of problems. Of course, there were all the usuals: 14 people who accidentally shot themselves,...
View ArticleHoly S$%T! Democrats flip two state legislative seats in blood red Oklahoma
Congratulations to Oklahoma Democrats Karen Gaddis and Michael Brooks-Jimenez on their victories in two special elections held tonight. They both prevailed in heavily Republican districts!xWow: there...
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