Articles
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Law & Principles
Biden’s policy failures pile up
According to legend, Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, responded to reports of people lacking bread by saying, “Let them eat cake.”Jonathan Small | December 15, 2021
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Law & Principles
McGirt leaves Indian victims feeling ‘defenseless’
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, many American Indians now find themselves largely unprotected from criminals.Ray Carter | December 15, 2021
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Higher Education
OU seminar says male-female is ‘too limiting,’ marginalizes the ‘gender fluid’
The presentation materials stated that LGBTQ+ people are negatively impacted by being socialized into an environment that only offers two positively received gender options, male or female.Staci Elder Hensley | December 14, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Good Government
Union activism may undermine Oklahoma film-subsidy program
Oklahoma lawmakers voted this year to supersize the state’s film-subsidy program, boosting the program from $8 million in annual subsidies to up to $30 million.Ray Carter | December 14, 2021
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Higher Education
BIPOC+ and LGBTQ: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
Oklahoma’s higher education system has its own diversity-bloat problem.Mike Brake | December 13, 2021
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Education
Deace says time is now to act on school choice
Steve Deace, a longtime conservative political activist and nationally prominent talk show host, says now is the time for policymakers to increase school choice opportunities in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | December 13, 2021
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Good Government
Oklahoma’s pandemic response earns high marks
Governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied greatly from state to state. What sorts of consequences did governmental actions have?Curtis Shelton | December 10, 2021
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Education
NEA/OEA admits anti-CRT law does not ban teaching history
When lawmakers passed House Bill 1775, which bans public schools from teaching certain concepts broadly associated with Critical Race Theory, critics claimed the law makes it illegal to educate children about some of history’s darker racial chapters.Ray Carter | December 9, 2021
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Education
Court finds Edmond school quarantine policy ‘irrational’
Oklahoma County District Court Judge Don Andrews has enjoined Edmond Public Schools from enforcing its COVID-19 quarantine policy, which requires unvaccinated students to be quarantined after potential exposure even when students do not test positive for the virus.Ray Carter | December 7, 2021
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Culture & the Family
Stitt: Oklahoma will continue ‘winning’ vaccine-mandate fight
During a press conference, Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor said the state will continue pushing back against federal overreach and also vowed to stand up for Oklahomans whose religious freedoms are infringed upon by private businesses’ vaccine mandates.Ray Carter | December 7, 2021