Articles
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Higher Education
Oklahoma colleges’ loyalty oaths violate free speech
Why are Oklahoma’s university professors so often out of touch with the average citizen?Jonathan Small | September 12, 2023
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Education
Teachers’ unions are selling a big lie
It is time to hold teachers' unions accountable for pushing a radical political and social agenda that most teachers wouldn't support with their hard-earned money if they realized it.Bre Oberdick | September 11, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma school staff hired despite sex-crime allegations
Two Oklahoma school districts recently hired staff members—one of them a drag queen who reads to children—despite prior convictions or serious allegations of sex crimes involving children.Ray Carter | September 8, 2023
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Higher Education
Wall Street Journal highlights OU’s ‘unfettered spending spree’
The Wall Street Journal found that OU is “just devouring money”—and OU officials’ responses are unpersuasive.Jonathan Small | September 7, 2023
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Education
Supplemental school material causes online liberal meltdown
While California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks Oklahoma’s partnership with PragerU is “disgusting,” one Oklahoma teacher says of PragerU content: “Kids were engaged & loved it!”Ray Carter | September 7, 2023
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Higher Education
Silencing is ‘prevalent’: OU fares poorly on free-speech ranking
OU ranks 134th overall in a new report on campus free speech. “Pretty much every day I have to suppress my thoughts on issues,” says one OU student. “Cancel culture and silencing are prevalent at OU.”Ray Carter | September 6, 2023
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma law schools silent after Supreme Court ruling
We asked the OU, OCU, and TU law schools what policy changes they have adopted regarding preferential treatment based on race, national origin, or sex. None of the three schools responded.Ray Carter | September 5, 2023
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Budget & Tax
Stitt calls for income-tax elimination
In recent weeks, in interviews with both local media and national outlets, Gov. Kevin Stitt has called for Oklahoma to gradually eliminate the personal income tax to turbocharge the state economy.Ray Carter | September 1, 2023
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Energy
Left-wing policies and unintended consequences
Even in Oklahoma, interest groups continue to push “green” energy policies. As Hawaii shows, the trade-off involved in promoting such policies, if done without consideration for the bigger picture, can be incredibly destructive.Jonathan Small | September 1, 2023
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Education
Lankford seeks action on Chinese Communist role in schools
U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, is among 18 members of the U.S. Senate calling for a nationwide audit to “determine how much funding from hostile foreign governments has flowed into America’s K-12 schools.”Ray Carter | August 31, 2023