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Oklahoma Leads Way in Election Law Reform

February 8th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger When I first moved to Oklahoma from New York in 1963, Tulsa was known far and wide as the Oil Capital of the World.  Other than possessing more miles of lake frontage than any other state in the nation, Oklahoma was not among the nation’s leaders in any other [...]

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Say It Isn’t So: Schwarzenegger for President? (Update)

January 31st, 2011 · 6 Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger For those who remain unconvinced that Barack Obama is a usurper, that he is ineligible to serve as president of the United States, it might be helpful to examine his qualifications side-by-side with the qualifications of three others whose eligibility has been questioned in modern times. Article II. Section [...]

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Ten ‘Heistman Trophy’ Finalists Named

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, one year after sharing a similar report in 2008, I share a new oversight report issued this week on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).  Inside, it contains candidates for what an annual award I’ve decided to call “The Heistman Trophy.” Among those, descriptions of [...]

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Former White House Speechwriter Calls for Barack Obama to ‘Release the Birth Documents’

October 15th, 2009 · 13 Comments

Editor’s Note: Several times during the past few years, I’ve turned to Michael Johns, a White House speechwriter during the George H.W. Bush presidency who brings a more-scholarly-than-average approach to the news topics of the day.  Three weeks ago, he tackled the issue which, if one is on the “wrong” side of it, can get [...]

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‘Rebranding’ Leaves Conservatives in Vacuum

May 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments

The long-exposure photo at right, captured by Signaltheorist, shows the 30-minutes-long path of a Roomba® robotic vacuum cleaner.  Appearing to have chaos and disorganization at the core of its effort, it reminds this blogger of the recently-announced effort to rebrand the Republican Party. Unless those efforts are altered immediately, conservative-first party members — including yours [...]

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John McCain Must Be Feeling Re-Election Pressure

May 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Challenged by Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Arizona and a man with more statewide name recognition than most of the senator’s previous primary opponents, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) must be feeling quite a bit of re-election pressure this time around.  As a result, he’s advertising already. Today, I happened to [...]

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It’s So Obvious: OBAMA LOVES EARMARX

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments

In her New York Times column yesterday, Maureen Dowd used Shakespearesque language to describe Sen. John McCain’s seemingly-hopeless efforts to rid a $410 billion spending bill of $7.7 billion in earmarks: And he’s truly mad that trusts in the promise of a presidential candidate to quell earmarks. A few paragraphs later, she quoted the Arizona [...]

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