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“Abortion is a moral issue,” former Vice-President Mike Pence said during the recent debate between Republican candidates for the presidency.
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By Marion Hill |
9/28/23 03:31 PM
My article “When is a University Not a University,” in the September 21, 2023, issue of the Durant Weekly Democrat focused on two things that are objectionable about PragerU.
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By Henry Brigman |
9/28/23 03:28 PM
We tend to think of an institution whose name includes a “U” as a legitimate university, such as OU, SOSU, ACU, TCU, and many others. But naming an institution that way doesn’t make it a …
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By Henry Brigman |
9/21/23 12:44 PM
A week or so ago, I wanted some information about the upcoming Bryan County Free Fair. I wanted to know whether the Fair had added a contest for creative writing so that I could enter a poem I had …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
9/21/23 12:36 PM
We can get a good idea about future historians’ evaluations of former President Trump’s indictments by what they are saying now, fifty years after President Richard Nixon’s crimes. When …
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By Henry Brigman |
9/7/23 11:46 AM
The Choctaws arrived in Oklahoma in 1830 after being forced from their ancestral home in Mississippi and surrounding states. When the first explorers encountered the indigenous First Peoples, they …
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By Jane Hicks |
9/7/23 11:43 AM
“Woke” is the current buzz word that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others try to use as a cudgel against those they disagree with.
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By Marion Hill |
8/31/23 10:12 AM
Oklahoma’s teachers face a challenge about honesty in their curriculum. At a meeting in Norman, Oklahoma, Superintendent Ryan Walters said the Tulsa Massacre can be taught in schools, but “not …
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By Henry Brigman |
8/31/23 10:07 AM
In the latest effort to torment one of our most vulnerable constituencies, Oklahoma is now the first state in the nation to adopt a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” by order of Governor Stitt.
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By Jane Hicks |
8/24/23 01:13 PM
King Solomon, historically known as the wisest person to have lived, poses a question about finding a “noble character.”
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By Phyllis Rustin |
8/24/23 12:52 PM
A functional democracy relies on an educated and informed public. We all know how the
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By Jane Hicks |
8/17/23 11:51 AM
(This is the second installment of a two-part article about the horrors of slavery and how to teach it without “laying a guilt trip” on White students.)
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By Joe Littlejohn |
8/17/23 11:49 AM
The American Academy of Pediatrics reported in its February 28, 2022, article that firearm injury is the leading cause of preventable children’s death in the U.S.
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By Henry Brigman |
8/10/23 12:59 PM
Political efforts to doctor or outright conceal the truth about one thing or another are probably as old as time. After all, Adam blamed Eve for tempting him to eat that forbidden apple and, thereby, …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
8/10/23 12:54 PM
Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Oklahoma Public Education, says “The current left-wing indoctrination is attempting to destroy religion as a way to destroy our entire country.”
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By Jane Hicks |
8/3/23 10:56 AM
Six years after the end of the First World War, Congress enacted a bill to reward those veterans with a cash bonus for their service. They would receive an average of about $500 per man twenty years …
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By Henry Brigman |
8/3/23 10:55 AM
By Marion Hill |
7/27/23 11:04 AM
By Joe Littlejohn |
7/27/23 11:02 AM
Local, state, and federal laws apply to everyone, and Choctaw Nation tribal members are not exempt. The idea that our tribe turns a blind eye to laws being broken by tribal members is quite simply …
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By Chief Gary Batton of the Choctaw Nation |
7/20/23 05:13 PM
A flurry of e-mails that some friends and I recently exchanged about our grown-up views of religion brought vividly back to mind how I viewed religion as a pre-teen.
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By 88-Year-Old Joe Littlejohn |
7/20/23 11:37 AM
