Opinion

Body Education allowed America to become the most successful nation in the world. Most people agree. So how did education become just one more political hot topic? Why do so many Americans — and Oklahomans — have a hard time agreeing on how to get education back on track?

Body Established by former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger in 1986, the Month of the Military Child has since been celebrated every April to recognize the 1.6 million children of our men and women in uniform.

Body On April 25, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his intention to seek re-election in 2024. “The question we’re facing,” Biden says in his announcement video, “is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.

Body On April 14, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Airman First Class Jack Teixeira with copying and sharing information “connected with” or “relating to” the “national defense.

Body In early April, Twitter added a “State-Affiliated Media” tag to National Public Radio’s account on the social media platform, putting it in the same league as Russia’s RT, China’s Xinhua and other government-funded “news” outlets.

Body You have to work with what you have. You have to play the hand you have been dealt. You have to make the best of your circumstances. Complaining about your situation is unproductive and a complete waste of time.

Body On Thursday, Feb. 23, the two-week-long, non-stop religious revival at tiny Asbury University in rural Wilmore, Ky., saw its official end.

Body In February I began hosting town hall meetings, inviting those who call Oklahoma’s 3rd Congressional District home, to discuss the issues most pressing in Washington and at home in Oklahoma.

Body U.S. President Joe Biden “stresses that Silicon Valley Bank is not getting a bailout,” The Hill reported on March 13. “No losses will be borne by the taxpayers,” he said of the federal government’s decision to cover depositor losses in excess of $250,000.

Body U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, no stranger to finding himself under political fire, has been hunkering down beneath a new barrage after turning over 40,000 hours of U.S. Capitol security camera footage (from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot) to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.