In June 1956, evangelist Billy Graham brought his four-week crusade to the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. A story written by Religion Editor Ray Shaw on the front page of the June 4, 1956, Oklahoma City Times reported: BILLY GRAHAM, daring the devil and the weather, preached to 15,239 persons Sunday. Forty-five heard his plea […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote a Washington Post op-ed a couple of weeks ago, calling on congressional Republicans to start showing some partisan restraint. “Disagreements about politics are good for our democracy. They are normal,” the nation’s chief law enforcement official wrote. “But using conspiracy theories, falsehoods, violence and threats of violence to affect political […]
Former President Donald TrumpScott Olson/Getty Images Trump Media’s crusade against short-sellers has coincided with a 92% rally in its stock price. The company has issued messages to its shareholders about how to combat short-sellers. Trump Media stock has attracted a lot of short-sellers since it went public last month. Trump Media and Technology Group has […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s threat to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson has run up against a new obstacle: former President Donald Trump, who publicly defended Johnson against Greene’s attacks. At a joint news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Trump praised Johnson’s job performance and appeared to try to soft-soap Greene into easing up on her […]
Representative James Comer has finally given up on trying to impeach Joe Biden—but he’s trying to make it seem like that was his plan all along. After more than a year of insisting that the president and his family are guilty of corruption, Republicans have yet to produce any evidence of Biden’s wrongdoings. Many GOP […]
TULSA, Oklahoma — “You are at Ground Zero of the left’s war on education,” Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told the crowd inside a barbecue joint on a blazing August afternoon last year. The day’s Tulsa County Men’s Republican Club meeting opened with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance and an ovation […]
Tom Horne, a Republican, is state superintendent of public instruction. Score one for parental choice and for state superintendents staying in their own lane. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed state Superintendent Tom Horne’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a dual language program for children who haven’t yet mastered English. Oh, the horror. That […]
I’d like to take Alabama’s Chief Justice Tom Parker out for coffee and talk to him about his recent claim that frozen embryos are children, too. Alabama’s Supreme Court recently and wrongly ruled embryos – in or out of the uterus – are children, and that destroying them is “an affront to God.” I’d share […]