Once again the wheels of justice in Tulsa are at a grinding halt.  Activists are being rewarded for flouting the law and taking matters into their own hands.
  The cowards at city hall  ignored the brazen acts of graffiti artists who  marked territory on the eve of the big Trump rally, June 20th.
  So when do other great Americans get to post inspirational encouragement? When will life coaching utilize the ground under our feet while adding an additional layer of protective pavement coating without charging the taxpayers a dime.
   Now there's a sensible limit to what should be allowed on public streets. Commercial billboards and trademark slogans should be prohibited. Candidate advertising should also be banned.  But we can unify, inspire, and promote community by  reminding us of what we forgot.
  If courts delay long, on the BLM case, there may be several more  artist works before the ruling gets announced.

  Last month, Yukon mayor, Shelli Selby used her ceremonial proclamation discretion; not to declare a day to honor service dogs or honor a retiring city employee. No, this time she simply proclaimed a new law into existence within the city.  No unmasked person can come to a city meeting or office to exercise their petitioning of govt. or redress of grievance unless they conform to the very thing they cannot or will not submit to.
  So some of the people of the district turned to their state Representative, Jay Steagall. This led the lawmaker to reach out to the new mayor & advise her of the overstep and how to correct it.
  That was enough to get the local police mixed up in the drama, because she says the  conversation and follow up messages now amount to harassment of the woman mayor. Would a man claim harassment?  Not as likely, for sure.
  Now the mayor is complaining to the Oklahoma Speaker of the House, to attempt to get Charles McCall to punish the lawmaker who is simply trying to provide constituent services for his own citizens of the House district.
  This could set back political opportunity for thousands of women, when ordinary voters get sick of the cheap political 'victim card' being used to win political matters. There are real victims of harassment, just like there are real victims of racism. But when a politician abuses the police and the govt. process just to score another political coup; then the real bully is the one holding the victim card.

  Around June 21, there were about 9500 total Oklahomans testing positive.
Around July 11, there were about 19,000 total infections.
Around August 4, there are about 39,500 total infections.
That would suggest:

• August 25th - 79,000
• Sept 15th - 158,000
• October 7th - 316,000
• October 29th - 632,000
• November 19 - 1,264,000
• December 10th - 2,528,000

​  There are going to be several other external factors attempting to impact the actual public health circumstances, but we don't yet know which will be successful.
  I post this as a straight-forward numeric equation, for discussion.  I fully expect to get ad-hominem and other irrational responses.
 -David Van Risseghem

  Leftist state & local govt. leaders are rolling the dice on hopes that a magic mask can repel a new airborne virus, akin to the folklore use of garlic to repel vampires.
  It's outraging constitutionalists who believe that no one can be deprived of liberties w/o due process of law (5th Amendment of US Constitution). Contagious disease policies require a judge's order of direct evidence of  transmission or exposure to a known deadly disease in order to issue a specific quarantine. But lazy contemporary orders are assuming that the whole community, including recovered patients; are deadly carriers. It defies medical science.

  The World Health Organization has been rocked with global scandal over their coverup of the early days of the Chinese outbreak of a new strain of Coronavirus.  But the globalists who've defended the WHO, including major social media tyrants like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, & Google search engines.

  I woke up at 4am with this Jefferson quote on my mind...
Jefferson was evidently trying to calm some fellow delegates to the Constitutional convention, in the wake of Shay's rebellion.
  The rebellion is perhaps most responsible for our nation having a ban on debtor's prisons, and even the constitutional right to bankruptcy and debt forgiveness by act of federal magistrates.
  Jefferson believed rebellion may have virtue. Later in life he became a college president and youthful rebellion consumed his ability to provide a systematic educational process.

  Oklahoma state lawmakers have been very apprehensive about giving constitutional powers to the bureaucratic state. But Tulsa mayor, GT Bynum seem to want the agency bureaucrats to have even more authority to make our health choices for us.
​  Gary Branz is outraged at the hostile insults coming from talk radio.  Dan Potter of KRMG Radio is especially intolerant & outspoken. Here's Gary's account account.

  Barstool Sports founder & 'el presidente', Dave Portnoy, was offered an interview with President Donald Trump, on the opening day of Major League Baseball.
  Portnoy claimed to be non-political, and the interview appears to back up his claim. 
  But more importantly, it shows that real journalism still exists in the US, even though it's becoming very rare.
  Trump met the honesty of Portnoy with a very genuine & honest self-assessment of his own presidential performance. He talked candidly about his many twitter mistakes.
  The takeaway for the press corp is simple. Report the news fairly and objectively, and Trump will open up more about his challenges.

  Allison Schuster did a great recap of the interview. She's a rising star on the campus of Hillsdale College. She's also an intern at The Federalist. Here's her journal.
  The embedded video in this article is currently on YouTube. In the event we lose access to it, there is another copy posted on UGEtube.

A friendlier press just couldn't get enough of the sweet Obama girls. The Bush Girls and even Chelsea Clinton were often the subject of many "Oh aren't they adorable" media narratives.
  But a boy hasn't lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since 1963. That's when John Kennedy jr. (long since deceased), was born to parents occupying the residency quarters.
  Perhaps it's journalists who don't want to write anything humane or polite? Perhaps they don't know how to write about presidents' boys, as much as girls?
  But Barron Trump has been with the public scene for 4 years and he's not the same youth he used to be.

  Today the Facebook censoring dept. just disparaged a medical professional who openly asked; "What if the quarantining the healthy doesn't save lives?".
  In basic high school logic, that statement is called a hypothesis. It's not a statement of fact, but a hypothetical.  Politifact, the anointed bearer of all things truthful, decided that hypotheticals like the one stated by the medical professional are not allowed.  The public is not supposed to ask; "what if". We are supposed to believe as fact, whatever the govt. decides is truth.
  Another question posed by the physician..
‘What if wearing a mask in public is not effective?’
Politifact also said; "This is inaccurate. Official guidance from public health experts says wearing a mask in public can prevent the spread of the coronavirus."
  This is a ramping up of academic censorship by facebook. It's an environment where some 'what if' questions will be punished. Not only will the person posting the questions be punished, but Facebook says that if the group doesn't step in and punish the group member, then Facebook will punish the whole group.

  In short... Questions are not claims. Questions are essential in higher ed learning. It's how we challenge each other to become better thinkers and avoid intellectual laziness. We must never let others do our thinking for us, but that exactly what Facebook says we must do, especially if our politics is not in line with the orthodoxy that Facebook demands of all discourse on their website.
​  Youtube is doing similar censorship, but they are taking a different route in controlling content. A recent Oklahoma political rally to defend monuments was put on by a citizen group.  Youtube shut down the live feed because a white mother had an open carry firearm in the video frame.  Youtube said that their policy is now banning any live content with people bearing firearms.
  Nevermind that the same videographer ran a 2 hour live feed of a Black Panther Open Carry rally in the same city. Hundreds were carrying arms and they were predominantly black.  It's evidently just the white folk who are the problem with guns, in youtube's political agenda?

  The spread of the newest virus, Covid-19, has captivated and traumatized many who stay glued to network news accounts. But rather than relying on a magic vaccine to save humanity, we're finding our way through the 'gauntlet' by protecting our elders and infirmed, while our young & healthy are taking the brunt of the viral attack. Most are surviving the illness with little harm. Some experience no symptoms at all.
  By all accounts, Oklahoma is handling the illness far better than our 'more enlightened' coastal states. One could say that Gov. Stitt's goal of Top Ten may be occuring in a category which truly means life or death for each of us.
   It may be very advantageous for individuals to face the inevitability of a covid exposure in the months when the annual flu isn't already taxing our bodies as well as the communal healthcare resources.
  But Dennis Thompson of Healthday believes that our illusive herd immunity threshold far sooner than what vaccine innoculations required. He've pasted part of that article for your review...

  Claiming a health emergency, Mayor GT Bynum is presenting for immediate emergency action, a law which has no sunset clause.  Unlike the statewide emergency declaration which has a constitutional 30 day sunset. Bynum wants this unprecedented restriction to remain in effect until he deems it no longer helpful to our health.
  While the covid virus does transmit via air, the more dangerous concern is physical contact. Even more risky is the exchange of bodily fluids. Yet Bynum's order does nothing to slow down the casual sexual contact at known prostitution shops around town. the last big publicized prostitution sting was done nearly a year ago, and those female prostitutes were not arrested. Instead, DA Steve Kunsweiler says they were offered career counseling opportunities.  Hair salons and dental offices face stricter enforcement of health rules than sexual services proprietors.

  The Kanye West presidential campaign was real. He'd hired a competent team of organizers and legal staff. But the clock had already run out. Even the expert, Steve Kramer, could not turn back the clock to meet the deadlines which passed many weeks ago. 
​Just 10 days ago, the energy was high and the 180 or so who were tapped to mobilize a national movement, are gone home. 
  And then there's the real concern about the psyche of Kanye's motivation.  The brilliant mind of this artist & businessman has a history of transcending into the manic realm. He's been through many efforts to manage and stabilize his mental energy and keep it productive and sensible.  If this was a manifestation of mania, no one is going on the record to impugn West's motivation.
  West is, by all accounts, a cultural icon and global influencer.   He just didn't understand the complexity of the political mess.  He's not the first independent candidate to get hit by the immovable wall of resistance to populist insurgencies.
  West can and probably will  be a force in 2024 political discussions. But the only way he will be a candidate in 2020, is if the Democrats or Republicans draft him as their own nominee.

  The latest state health dept numbers are affirming to everyone, depending on what you choose to obsess about.  While the alarmists and other advocates for an Orwellian society are putting on a show of terror about the population actually catching a virus which we were all told would eventually go through the whole population; Others are celebrating the lessening threat of that virus causing grave illness.
 In mid April, Oklahomans were dying at a daily rate near or exceeding 10 people per day.
  Now the certified cases are running a daily count which is perhaps 10 times as many at once, but the death count per day is about what it was when Oklahoma went into shutdown.
 Tens of thousands are certified to be fully recovered and immune to the virus, but some Oklahomans want to force harmful masks on to those in full recovery.
  With the legislature in adjournment, leftist mayors and councils are having their way and criminalizing the failure to wear masks when the oligarchs demand compliance.

  The 2020 Senate Freedom Index is now published, to compare the lawmakers' commitment to restoring and protecting individual liberties in their powers to create and rescind laws.
  This year a pair of freshmen who are also former military officers, are tied for the top spot in the senate. Adam Pugh & Joe Newhouse both voted to restore & protect citizen freedoms in 9 of 10 floor votes. They also gained bonus points for authoring bills the Sooner Politics selection committee deemed essential and/or scored in the index.
 The young Republicans from OKC & Tulsa metro districts, led all scores with a +85, on a spectrum of 100 to +100.
  A person scoring a zero on this index is deemed to vote against freedom in half the scored floor votes.  A score of +50 on this index is equivalent to a +75 on many other indices that do not issue negative index scores.
  8 Republicans were close behind with scores of 80. they were: