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US Autos Are 3 Times More Deadly Than Firearms

6/7/2022

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  American society is far more auto-oriented than Europe, Africa, & South America. We love our mobility and the independence of owning an automobile.
  But govt leftists are now seeking to limit ownership of deadly weapons in the USA. Right now they are seeking to put obstacles in the way of buying self-protection items. 
One has to ask when the automobiles will be taken away from the average citizen

Comparing Cars To Guns

Simply put, one in every 18.2k guns produced a human death. But 1 in every 6.7k autos will produce a death, in one year.
 In 2021, there were 289.5 million registered autos in the USA. There were also 42,915 auto deaths. That means 1 in every 6.746 autos were involved in an auto fatality.
In 2012 there were 5.49 deaths in the USA for every 100,000 firearms owned. That means 1 in every 18,215 firearms were involved in a firearms fatality. That statistic comes from www.gunpolicy.org. 
  We must acknowledge that it's very questionable just how many operational firearms are owned in the USA. No one wants to reveal their protective firearms.
 If the US Constitution gave every free citizen a right to own & operate a vehicle, would leftists try to restrict that, too?
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Statistically, this woman's car is about 3 times more likely to produce a fatality, than her firearm.

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Tulsa City Citation Amnesty Week At Municipal Courts

6/6/2022

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  ​Anyone with a Tulsa parking or other municipal citation will have a few days grace to clear up their original fines without having to pay additional penalties or court costs.  Parking tickets must be paid in-person, this week at the city hall (2nd & Cincinnati) or municipal court, at 600 Civic Center(near the county courthouse). 
  Additionally, those pleading a financial hardship can present their case to a judge for a payment plan. Those requests need to be made in person between 8-10am, at the municipal court.
  Non-parking citations will also be able to seek amnesty of the additional penalties, court costs, and bench warrants. There are over 100,000 such outstanding citations in the Tulsa court records. 
 Parking, and some other citations, are issued to the legal owner of the vehicle. If your vehicle is sometimes driven by someone else, it is plausible you may not know of an outstanding citation. You may need to ask some pointed questions to others who drive a vehicle you're responsible for(employees, teenagers, spouse, etc).
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Even if you need to make payment arrangements, you can freeze the cost by making arrangements this week.

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Two Physicians Among Those Murdered By Disgruntled Patient

6/2/2022

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 Tulsa authorities confirmed in the past hour that two physicians were murdered by a patient from Muskogee, OK, who incidently happened to be the husband of a Family Practice Physician.
  Dr. Preston Phillips, a Harvard-educated surgeon; was the confirmed target of yesterday's mass shooting at the St. Francis Health Systems clinic. Another physician in the clinic, Dr. Stephanie Husen, was also killed, as were a patient and the clinic supervisor, Amanda Glenn.
 Dr. Stephanie Husen is the other physician murdered yesterday. She's listed as a 2004 graduate of Oklahoma State University, as an Osteopathic Physician. She also practiced in the same clinic offices as Phillips. 
  Amanda Glenn is listed on LinkedIn.com, as a supervisor for St. Francis Health Systems. Police refer to her as acting as a receptionist at the clinic, at the time of the shooting.
​  William Love, a patient; was said to have held a door shut, keeping the gunman from accessing an area where others were fleeing for safety.
​  The St. Francis patients now have less available medical care, including the scores of orthopedic patients who are currently in the St. Francis Hospital, for severe pain and disability.
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Physicians Preston Phillips & Stephanie Husen.

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BREAKING: 45 Year Old Muskogee Man Appears To Be Hospital Shooter

6/2/2022

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  The Daily Beast Online News has identified the St. Francis Clinic shooter as Michelet Louis, of Muskogee. The media site communicated with a purported niece, who asked to remain unnamed, herself.
 A web search confirms that narrative. A Man named Michelet C Louis is listed at VoterRecords.com, as a Muskogee resident. He is listed as 45 years old. the Daily Beast reports that Louis is married to Edith Lubin, a 45 year old active Democrat voter in Muskogee, according to VoterRecords.com.
 On Thursday night, Tulsa Police confirmed that they reached out to Muskogee police to follow up on a possible bomb at the Muskogee home. That concern did not materialize, as of Thursday morning.
  Facebook lists a woman in Muskogee who appears to match Edith Lubin. the social media shows an alum of Drexel Medical School, which is in the Philadelphia area. Voter Records shows that Michelet Louis had a past residence in Philadelphia, PA.
Oklahoma's court records search did not return confirmed matches on the names cited by Daily Beast media.
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Mullin Reveals How Biden's Mouth Sabotaged A Ukraine Peace Deal

5/26/2022

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  In a Tulsa studio interview for www.FreshBlack.coffee, Congressman Markwayne Mullin revealed the nearly brokered peace agreement between Ukraine & Russia. A Deal that ended when Biden went to Poland and told the legendary 82nd Airborne US forces that they were about to enter Ukraine. That's something that Mullin says was never ever a contingency plan.
 That was enough to undermine the agreement on both sides that Ukraine would perpetually remain a 'non-aligned' nation.  The bizarre Biden outburst left Putin believing that if he withdrew his troops, the US would quickly occupy  Ukraine.
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SCOTUS Is On A 6-3 'Roll' For 1st Amendment

5/17/2022

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Demonstrating just how radically the left has swung in opposition to civil liberties, the US Supreme Court just issued a ruling against a federal limit on political speech and participation.
 Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a 6-3 majority, that Sen. Ted Cruz was harmed by a federal election law that capped how much he could lend to his own campaign, in 2012.
 His underdog campaign set a national record at the time, as the most expensive in US history.  He mortgaged his own home to secure a $260,000 loan to his campaign.  Only after the successful election did his campaign committee repay the loan.  That financing option was always lawful, but the Federal Election Commission (FEC), had capped such funding at $250,000. 
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Uber & Lyft Pledge Assistance To Abortion Services

5/2/2022

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  With Oklahoma lawmakers coming to the aid of the unborn children facing execution at selective abortion clinics, the rideshare services of Uber & Lyft are assuring their driver partners that any legal fees associated with providing abortion transportation, will be covered by the corporate treasuries. 
  The promises made are  intended to encourage drivers to accept riders who seek rides to and from selective abortion providers. Some drivers already refuse to provide such services because it conflicts with their conscious. But legal jeopardies now written into Oklahoma statutes will now add a financial and legal risk for those ignoring the moral implications.
 The website 'DesignTaxi.com' published a detailed report on the matter, this past week.
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Sean Roberts Ordered to Strike Out His Own Nickname

4/26/2022

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 Following a lengthy and contentious hearing before the Oklahoma Election Board,  State Representative Sean Roberts was unanimously ordered(3-0) to take a red pen and strike out the words "the Patriot" from his original candidate filing form.
  State Labor Commissioner, Leslie Osborn, sought to have Roberts completely thrown off the ballot for daring to include a nickname he has increasingly been referred to by.
  Fellow Representative and arch enemy, Chris Cannady, testified against Roberts, while disgraced for AG Mike Hunter served as Osborn's legal counsel.
 Cannady testified that his definition (listen to audio) of a 'patriot' is higher than most. He indicated that his is measured by how much an individual has sacrificed in military battle for his country.
​ The problem with that redefinition is that it would declare the Revolutionary Minutemen as insurrectionists and the 'Red Coats' who raided the Lexington & Concord armories as "the Patriots".
  None the less, Roberts did not convince the election board that the public 'generally' knows him as "the Patriot".
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Jackson Lahmeyer: 'Toward A Sane Marijuana Policy'

4/26/2022

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A guest editorial on policy decisions for the US Senate to address.

  A major issue confronting the Republican right in the USA, is a matter of prohibition policy.  Candidate Jackson Lahmeyer currently serves as an evangelical pastor in Tulsa, OK. His pastoral care informs his understanding of how something can be both beneficial and pose some risk to the individual. He advocates the virtue of responsibility for one's own consumption.
 But the matters pressing public policy and the decisions a US Senator needs to be cognizant of, include how federalism (overlapping jurisdictions by multiple governments), is to function when the state governments overwhelmingly dispute the federal government's underlying perceptions.
 To that end, he undertook an effort to discuss the pragmatic public policy impacts of our current & rapidly-changing dichotomy between the federal government's policy and laws; contrasting with the realities in more than 40 states who have substantively changed how they regulate cannabis within their state.
  For this reason, we are publishing Lahmeyer's position paper for the readers' consideration.
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TOWARDS A SANE MARIJUANA POLICY FOR OKLAHOMA AND  AMERICA  

By Jackson Lahmeyer 
  Since the passage of state question 788, Oklahoma has  experienced the boom of a billion dollar industry creating around  45,000 jobs in our state. At this point, 47 States now have some form  of medical cannabis program. 
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Kicking 'The Patriot' Off the Primary Ballot.

4/20/2022

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Several Oklahomans, in and out of the state capitol, say that Rep. Roberts has become known as 'the patriot' for his advocacy of personal liberty and open government.

What nicknames are allowed on the ballot?

   Hundreds of candidates use an informal or nickname. But one candidate doesn't want her opponent to use 'The Patriot' as his part of his ballot name.
  Termed out state Rep. Sean Roberts wants to be the next State Labor Commissioner. His former colleague in the House says she wants his nickname dropped from the official ballot.  The case comes before the state election board, next week.
 Senator Blake 'Cowboy' Stevens has been on multiple ballots under that name. Evidently 'Cowboy' is not as offensive as 'The Patriot'?
PictureLeslie Osborn is protesting 'The Patriot'.
  The Oklahoma Election Board released the list of challenged candidacies, Tuesday night.  While the docket wasn't comparatively long by recent standards, it contained several challenges in court officers. Nearly half of the dozen challenges were court-related. 


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Shannon Calls For Federal Term Limits - Signs Pledge

4/20/2022

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  In an opening volley of the Republican primary campaign for US Senate, former Oklahoma Speaker of the House, TW Shannon; announced his pledge to co-sponsor a constitutional amendment to put federal lawmakers under a limit to their length of elective office.
 In a press release, Shannon points out how he quickly rose to the highest office in Oklahoma's legislative branch because of Oklahoma term limits, passed by the voters in 1992.
  Shannon's press statement did not include any personally self-imposed term limit unless the entire congress is subject to the same reforms. 
  If a term limits amendment is adopted by congress and passed by the voters in 3/4 of the states, it will heavily assuage the call for an 'Article Five' Convention of states. Currently, a couple dozen states have pledged delegations to an alternative constitutional body which could forward a proposed term limits amendment without the supermajority support of congress.
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TW Shannon joined the Trump team prior to the 2016 primaries. He's pictured with Sarah Palin & Donald Trump, at Tulsa's Mabee Center, on January 20, 2016.

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Stitt Gains Endorsements From Legislators - Updated

4/18/2022

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  Despite many tough negotiations and even an override of an annual budget appropriation, The leaders of both legislative chambers gave their full endorsement of Gov. Kevin Stitt for another 4-year term.
 This comes even as a former senator filed to run against him. Former senator Ervin Yen is now running as an independent. Former Republican Education Superintendent, Joy Hofmeister is now seeking the Democrat nomination for governor.
  Stitt is not expected to have any difficulty gaining the Republican nomination when the June 28 election is tabulated.
  Last week, former president Donald Trump signaled his continued support for Stitt, announcing a fundraising event at his Florida country club & home.
  Some are also taking note of which state lawmakers were not in this list.  Among the names declining to endorse the incumbent GOP governor, are several eastern and southern legislators in districts with larger tribal populations.  It's no secret that the wealthy tribal organizations are furious at Stitt for attempting to take away their protected monopoly of the gambling industry.
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More than $10 million in dark money funds are seeking to defeat Gov. Stitt. But the legislature mostly stands by him.

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Fresh Black Coffee: ​Election Bracketology With Randy Krehbiel

4/17/2022

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Talk radio legend, Eddie Huff, does a weekly Saturday podcast with David Van of Sooner Politics. This weekend, Randy Krehbiel of the Tulsa World came to the studio to help us break down a massive 2022 election bracket.
​Election Bracketology With Randy Krehbiel - full show
The 2022 Oklahoma Election Brackets have been released. Political reporter, Randy Krehbiel of the Tulsa World, came to the studio for an in-depth breakdown of the races settled and the campaigns ahead.
We discuss Randy's big scoop and interview with Former EPA chief and Oklahoma AG, Scott Pruitt.
David discusses the 54 legislative races that have already been decided because only one person filed.
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54 Legislators Won Their Elections Today.

4/15/2022

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Noncontests dominate the 2022 election cycle.

125 legislative elections were started this week. 54 of them ended today.  In the Oklahoma Senate, 6 Republicans and 3 Democrats were declared winners of another 4-year term. This happened because they were the only ones to file for office at the state capitol.
  In the Oklahoma State House, 38 Republicans and 8 Democrats were declared the winners of 2-year terms in office, beginning this winter. Their pay packages will exceed $100,000 with travel & lodging stipends, plus other perks.

In short, more lawmakers were elected today than will be in November.
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In short, more lawmakers were elected today than will be in November.
  Additionally, Republicans will be assured 8 additional Senate seats because only Republicans filed. One Senate seat will be resolved between Democrat candidates. 
  Of the 24 Senate seats not up for election this year, 23 are Republican, 1 is Democrat.  This means only 6 of the 48 senate seats will be a November decision. Republicans therefor retain at least a 75% majority of the Oklahoma Senate.
  In the Oklahoma State House of Representatives, 22 more Reps will be decided among Republicans, since only Republicans filed. Democrats will pick up 1 additional seat when they decide between an exclusively Democrat list of candidates. 
 This means Republicans already retain 50 of the 101 offices. Democrats have secured 9.  So, just 42 House seats will be determined by the November elections.

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A Capitol Watch Party Gathers

4/15/2022

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Many Incumbents Win By Default

  As the lines dwindled at the state capitol building, the election board closes at 5pm. This is the deadline for candidates to file in the 2022 general election (held next November.
 But perhaps dozens of state & local leaders will head to another full term in office by declaration of the election board, next week. As of Noon, Friday,  half the 24 senate contests and 55 of the House races had no more than one filed candidate.
Despite this year's newly-drawn districts, and the absence of covid lockdowns; many incumbents are still unpopposed, as of noon, Friday. Even more interesting, Mark Tedford is a new candidate to the state House with now opponents. He may become a rare 'unelected ' lawmaker. He's seeking HD69, where Sheila Dills chose not to seek a 3rd term.
We've posted the filings as of midday, Friday.  Expect champaign corks to pop at 5pm.
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