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For Newhouse & Teegarden

8/19/2016

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   The editor of Sooner Politics joins Congressman Jim Bridenstine in endorsement of Joe Newhouse and Amanda Teegarden.
  Joe is an attentive and diligent person to represent his district in the state senate. He brings a perspective not especially present in the senate chamber. Last winter Commander Newhouse wrote an excellent explanation for Sooner Politics, of the European refugee crisis, because he's been representing the US commitment to NATO.
Amanda has been unmatched in her research of issues facing Oklahoma. She led the successful effort to stop an international corridor highway from splitting Oklahoma into 2 separate bodies. She also provided solid research of the problems of Common Core. - David Van Risseghem
 We'll let the congressman tell you his reasons why:

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Scott McEachin For State House

8/19/2016

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  The Editor of Sooner Politics joins former US Senator, Tom Coburn in endorsing Scott McEachin for House.
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  Attorney Scott McEachin has championed the causes of freedom and justice, both in the courtroom and through his community service. These attributes uniquely qualify him to represent the people of House District 67.

  When the legislature gathers together in January, Scott McEachin will be very ready on day one to add his insights and values to the task of reforming our state and restoring freedoms which lead to prosperity for all.

 - David Van Risseghem, Editor of Sooner Politics
  The great voice of congress, Tom Coburn,  said it this way;

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Oklahoma Voter ID Law Withstands Legal Challenge (so far)

8/17/2016

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  Trevor Brown reports on Oklahoma Watch... "A more than four-year legal challenge to overturn Oklahoma’s voter identification law was rejected earlier this week by a state district court judge who upheld the constitutionality of the measure.
  Oklahoma County District Court Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons dismissed the case Monday after hearing arguments from lawyers representing the Oklahoma State Election Board and Tulsa resident Delilah Christine Gentges. Gentges’ attorney said he plans to appeal the decision. Read the full report at Oklahoma Watch.
  Oklahoma has avoided the claims bout disenfranchisement because the state election board  provides free voter id cards without charge.


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Remembering John McLaughlin

8/16/2016

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  For nearly 40 years, John McLaughlin never missed a weekly installment of his beltway punditry show, "the McLaughlin Group", on PBS stations.
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 John missed his broadcast for the first time, last weekend. He died today.
John McLaughlin
Television Personality
John McLaughlin was an American television personality and political commentator. He created, produced, and hosted the political commentary series The McLaughlin Group. Wikipedia
Born: March 29, 1927, Providence, RI
Died: August 16, 2016
Political party: Republican Party
Movies and TV shows: The McLaughlin Group, Mission: Impossible
Spouse: Clara McLaughlin (m. 1997–2010), Ann McLaughlin Korologos(m. 1975–1992)
Education: Columbia University, Boston College

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The Cause Of Oklahoma Budget Problems

8/16/2016

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For decades, politicians competed in the state legislature, for the claim of 'who's tougher on crime'. It was a devastatingly expensive contest. Not for politicians, but for those of us who pay the bills and write the checks to cover their campaign promises.
Criminal justice is a very expensive part of the state's budget, It got way too expensive in recent years. High energy sector taxes hid the problem, but now we face it for what it really is. Public safety is a core function of government, but what is the best definition of 'safe'?
  Why do we lock up felons? 
  1. To make them suffer
  2. To make our society safer
  3. To change the felon's behavior
  The only sane and patriotic answer is #2; to create a safer society. There are certainly other ways to divert behavior from exploiting others. Financial punishment, exclusion from civil freedoms, community service duties, even public shaming works.
  You can't change a person who does not want to change. In the 70s, we renamed the agencies to "Department of Corrections". But very little correcting really happens in a prison environment. In fact, first-time offenders usually become highly trained in the arts of crime when they spend years living with the rest of them.


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Why Are Okla. City Firemen Breaking State Election Laws

8/16/2016

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  In the days preceding the state primary election (June 28), a newly formed political action committee in Oklahoma City decided to spend a very large amount of money in a concentrated attempt to defeat a state senator in a district which is over 100 miles away. Sen. Nathan Dahm endured a massive and deceptive onslaught of media saturation. He faced 2 Republican challengers and will also face a general election challenge.

​  The expenditures and the PAC itself are quite curious. But now we see that the Firefighters worked to cloak their activities by repeatedly breaking the state's reporting laws. Oklahoma Watch now reports that the PAC broke the reporting laws several times. And not by a day or two. No, they waited until well after the election itself, and only then did they fess up to what they were doing.
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  Where did the firefighters get the $50,000 that was spent? And more importantly, why would these municipal employees of the OKC Fire Dept.  spend such precious funds on this distant senate seat?
​ The Oklahoma Watch article lists Milton Blackburn & John Craig as among the principals involved in the "Conservatives For Common Sense" PAC. If the PAC is promoting conservatism, they would hardly choose the senate's most conservative member to be the target of concentrated hits. But the campaign laws do not have a litmus test for who uses the label 'conservative'. OKC's firefighters are largely labor union members.

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World Amatuer Sports Now Regulates Natural Hormone Levels

8/15/2016

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What started in the world of international track & field, may soon intrude upon US college sports. 
  In 2009, the South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya was barred from competition and obliged to undergo intrusive and humiliating “sex testing” after fellow athletes at the Berlin World Championships questioned her sex. Ms. Semenya was eventually allowed to compete again, but the incident opened the world’s eyes to the process of sex testing and the distress it could bring to an athlete who had lived her whole life as a girl. When an endocrinologist, a gynecologist and a psychologist were brought in to determine whether the teenager was really a woman, she simply asserted, “I know who I am.”
  Will US amatuer sports' governing bodies follow suit? Will our daughters be scrutinized for their levels of residual testosterone, rather than the standard x-x or x-y chromosome type? 
​  Men are not currently limited on their natural levels of testosterone. But women are subjected to mandated surgery before they can resume competition.

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CATO Institute Prescribes Reforms For Oklahoma's Freedom

8/15/2016

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  The Liberty think tank, CATO Institute, recently released an in depth study of all 50 states and prescribed reforms for each state. Oklahoma ranks high, but just a few more reforms could result in leading the nation in personal & economic freedom. Oklahoma now ranks 3rd, as of 2014 comparisons.
Among the Policy Recommendations are:
  • Fiscal: Reduce the government payroll, and cut spending in areas well out of line with national averages, public welfare and highway spending. The proceeds could be applied to shaving the sales tax.
  • Regulatory: Legalize nurse practitioner independent practice with full prescription authority, join the Nurse Licensure Compact, and pass a nursing consultation exception for interstate practice. These reforms would have raised Oklahoma two places on regulatory policy.
  • Personal: Legalize Sunday alcohol sales, happy hours, direct wine shipments, and wine and spirits in grocery stores. Combined, these reforms would have raised Oklahoma five places on personal freedom.

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It Takes A State Amendment To Get An Old Drug Approved

8/14/2016

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  Those who study the old medicines have claimed that our regulatory mindset has gotten in the way of sensible solutions. This is true of those who found cannabis to be the best solution for some chronic seizures, the ravages of chemotherapy effects, and PTSD psycho-trauma.
  American firms have invested about $50 million in licensing Israeli medical marijuana patents, cannabis agro-tech start-ups, and companies developing delivery devices such as inhalers, scientists say.
  Read about Israeli research, here. http://goo.gl/0QnZBs
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  Although 23 U.S. states now allow the use of medical marijuana, with four states and Washington, DC, also allowing its recreational use, scientists claim stringent American rules set by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are limiting cannabis research in the U.S.
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​  But we must wait another day to find out if all the hoops have been jumped through, to get a proposed constitutional amendment sent to the voters for the next general election. Red Dirt Report has this update:

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Bridenstine Cosponsors 'One Subject' Congressional Reform

8/13/2016

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  In 1992, a younger and far more reformist congressman, Jim Inhofe; pushed through the last great reform of the House of representatives. His Discharge Petition measure made it harder for congressmen to lie to their constituents. Candidate Ross Perot lauded it in his 1992 presidential run.

  The OSTA( "One Subject at a Time Act") was been introduced by Senator Rand Paul in the Senate (S. 1572) and by Representative Mia Love in the House ( H.R. 4335). OSTA currently has nearly a dozen co-sponsors in the House. This is also co-sponsored by Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine.


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Was Keating Wrong?

8/10/2016

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  The "Law & Order" governor, Frank Keating; gave us some of our most draconian legislative efforts to end crime in Oklahoma. But the unintended result is a bankrupt state with one of the world's highest incarceration rates. In fact, Oklahoma incarcerates more women than any other state. Even totalitarian regimes don't imprison as many citizens as does Oklahoma.
   Frank Keating came to the Governor's mansion with a background in the FBI and other federal departments. He had several years of frustration with red tape keeping him and other agents from going after 'bad guys'.
  Among the 'bad guys' were the folks who were not violent at all.  Keating's administration brought some controversial '3 strikes' policies and some critics accused his administration of essentially condemning the noncompliant to life in confinement even though they never posed a real threat to the public.
  Keating brought in many of his federal friends including Bob Ricks (the mastermind of the plan which left scores of Branch Davidians dead, in Waco, TX). Keating also brought in a policy of doing business with 'for profit' private prisons.  Some of those for profit prison administrators have a history of 'buying' business deals with campaign contributions. Some of them were hundreds of miles out of state. Clergy sometimes criticized the practice as hostile toward Christian values of visiting those imprisoned.

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State Agencies Violating State Law On Political Speech

8/9/2016

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The Red Dirt Report has published several accounts of abuse by law enforcement. I encourage readers to read up on what is happening right under our noses.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics has a history of violating state laws regarding political activities. The photo below is one such example where government assets have been used to impact political events.

  Posters such as those created and published by the OBN are a grievous form of tyranny and a serious threat to political liberty and reform.

It's time that our Attorney General launched an investigation into the concerted effort to suppress political speech. Several municipal law enforcement agencies and state agencies are undermining the trust of the people.
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This poster was published by an Oklahoma state agency which receives it's funding by our tax dollars and Civil Asset Forfeiture abuses.
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Conservative Leaders Backing Medical Marijuana Petition

8/9/2016

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With just hours to go before the constitutional deadline, many Conservative leaders and grassroots groups are coming out to support the medical marijuana petition.
The state question became necessary when legislative leaders failed to act to allow medical science the opportunity to utilize prescription options for children suffering devastating seizures. Iraqi war veterans came forward to present evidence that some cannabis products were effective in their own treatment. 22 American veterans commit suicide every day. PTSD is largely evident in their mental health challenges. VA hospitals typically put these suffering veterans on waiting lists and then dope them up on medications with serious side effects and great discomfort.
​Ronda Vuillemont-Smith of the Tulsa 912 Project is one such political leader who is taking a public stand for medical reforms like medical marijuana. She said:
 "If anyone is interested in signing these petitions please let me know and I will put you in contact with someone associated with the petitions.
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There are 2 petitions, both are for state ballot questions - 1 is for the legalization of medicinal marijuana (no THC) to help alleviate seizures and pain without getting "high" and the 2nd is to change the laws to allow up to one year for citizens to secure signatures on ballot initiatives.

Both deserve to at least have a vote by the people. I signed both petitions and I encourage you to do the same."
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Eddie Huff Signs Off KFAQ Radio

8/9/2016

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  This morning, Eddie Huff announced his completion of service as a cohost on the Pat Campbell Show on Tulsa's Conservative Talk Radio flagship. He presented a very gracious and amicable announcement on social media.  Eddie was the principal substitute for Pat whenever he was away.

Eddie was recently a national radio fillin on the Todd Schnitt Show. His career resume' is as unique as his political message sometimes reveals. Born on a military base in West Germany, he grew up far away from the social unrest of America in the 60s & 70s. He became a missionary and Christian evangelism specialist. 
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  In recent years Eddie has been a fixture in Tulsa's business community. His insurance company has been the focus of the past several years.


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Faith-based Prohibitions vs Liberty

8/9/2016

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  During much of the 20th century, some tyrannical governments viewed organized religions as an enemy. Most  of them were communist. Most of them were totalitarian. Most of them have collapsed and been replaced.
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  But the transverse is also evident. Some governments have become extensions of prevalent religions. Even when a wall of separation was erected, fundamental teachings and opinions of the clerics were codified into the laws of the state.
 Marriage & Liquor
   When the state usurps the authority to control family relationships, it is a fundamental affront to liberty. Yet almost all "advanced" governments have asserted the power to license marriages and to some degree, parenthood. A license is essentially a permission given by the state. But whoever decided that the state had the moral or constitutional authority to withhold such permission?

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