Oklahoma Political Blogwire

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• Weekly Poll Update

  —THE OTTER LIMITS

  Just a reminder, there is only 1 day left in the 'Who is Your Choice for Governor' poll here on Otter Limits.
  The response to this poll has been phenomenal. So far it still looks like Randy Brogdon is leading the pack by quite a large margin.
  This blog has [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2010, 12:04am EDT
  by Otter

• Friday Night in the Big Town: March 19-21

  —The Lost Ogle

  What it do, gentle readers?  It’s just little old me, Marisa, again.  I have to say, that I have grown extremely fond of our little Friday internet communions.  I feel we’ve become a part of each other’s lives now.  I look forward to sharing my wisdom and savvy with you.  [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2010, 11:51pm EDT
  by marisa

• iTunes Essentials: Dropkick Murphys

  —THE OTTER LIMITS

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  If any of you frequent iTunes the way I do, you might come across something ever so often when searching for albums by a specific band.
  It is called iTunes Essentials. Bascially what iTunes does (I am assuming here of course) is they pick the songs that are the most [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 10:27pm EDT
  by Otter

• 10 for 2010: Dropkick Murphys 2.0

  —THE OTTER LIMITS

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  After talking to Dave for a bit tonight about this band (and after reading HIS 10 for 2010 on them) I realized that I really did not do this band their proper justice.
  
  So, with that in mind, I am going to re-do my 10 for 2010 list and [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 10:13pm EDT
  by Otter

• Brogdon Plane Loses Engine, Lands Safely

  —The McCarville Report Online

  From The Tulsa World ~ Sen. Randy Brogdon got a pretty good scare Thursday.
  
  The Republican gubernatorial candidate boarded a private plane in Tulsa and headed to a campaign event in Woodward.
  
  “About 15 minutes out, the left engine just quit,” said Brogdon, R-Owasso. “He (the pilot) had [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 8:12pm EDT
  

• Open letter to Awlaki from Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

  —zTruth

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  Below is an open letter from Dr. Zuhdi Jasser to Al-Awlakis audio message: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Dear Imam Anwar al-Awlaki: I am in receipt via coverage on CNN of your offensive audio message to American Muslims. As the head of an American Muslim organization dedicated to combating the very [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:28pm EDT
  by zTruth

• New website on CAIR documents financial transactions

  —zTruth

  Number of comments: 0
  There is a new website called CAIR Observatory, which is a project of the Center for Security Project, that provides for your review some of the financial documents that led them to believe CAIR is acting as a foreign agent. Video (15 min): [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:47pm EDT
  by zTruth

• ObamaCare Would Kick Middle Class Where it Hurts

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  Who will suffer the most under ObamaCare?
  
  Once rationing begins to kick in, everyone. But in the short run it looks like those who will be hit the hardest will be those in the middle class. In other words, the people President Obama promised to protect from his tax [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:25pm EDT
  

• Look Who's Promoting Fake Letters to the Editor!

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  The Obama gets caught promoting Astroturf in the nation's newspapers, with plagiarism not exactly discouraged.
  
  The Tulsa World was one of the newspapers fooled into printing an Astroturf "letter to the editor."
  
  Or does it just not care?
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:16pm EDT
  

• Dr. Bruce Prescott - fan of CAIR

  —zTruth

  Number of comments: 0
  Islamists hearts libs. In Oklahoma we have a religious leader, of sorts, who hearts CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial for their role in being part of the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas infrastructure in America. Below is a screenshot of Dr. Bruce Prescott's facebook page' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:10pm EDT
  by zTruth

• Meanwhile, Off the Coast of Florida,

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  There's more than just health care going to hell in a hand basket.
  
  In its lead editorial today, the Washington Times notes that the Russians are drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba.
  The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:07pm EDT
  

• Have You Had Your Say Yet?

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  Will the Republic survive long enough to get us to the 2010 vote?
  
  You have to worry when so many House Democrats are throwing their political lives away in a suicidal pact to give President Obama a victory on his signature issue, despite the fact
  
  ... that the [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 4:59pm EDT
  

• Coburn puts potential Obamacare no-to-yes voters on notice

  —BatesLine

  Sen. Tom Coburn, at a news conference today of physician members of the House and Senate regarding Obamacare: I want to send a couple of messages to my colleagues in the House. If you voted no and you vote yes, and you lose your election, and you think any nomination... [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:51pm EDT
  

• Anwar Awlaki calls upon Muslims in America to attack Americans!

  —zTruth

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  American born Anwar Awlaki issued a call for jihad for American Muslims to attack Americans. His call to action is similar to the one put out recently by Adam Gadahn. These two men are traitors of America who are linked to Al Qaeda who has declared war against America. Ghadan [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:41pm EDT
  by zTruth

• Page 3: Why Your City Sucks: Small Town Edition

  —The Lost Ogle

  Number of comments: 4
  Some people in this state like to say things like this: “The small towns in Oklahoma are what make this state so great. The charm, the people, the down-home America feel – it’s wonderful.” And while that’s mostly true, a lot of the reason people like to stereotype Oklahoma as [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:40pm EDT
  by Royce

• City design: How, by whom, and to what end?

  —BatesLine

  Blair Humphreys posts an excellent comment on an excellent discussion at Steve Lackmeyer's OKC Central blog: I agree with the thesis that cities NEED to be designed. Of course, the rub comes when you decide things like: designed how, by whom, and to what end. In Oklahoma City we have... [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:28pm EDT
  

• IMF offical: "The Quiet Coup" by the US financial industry

  —BatesLine

  From an interesting article by an International Monetary Fund official, in the May 2009, Atlantic. Why does this paragraph make me think of Tulsa and Great Plains Airlines? Typically, these countries are in a desperate economic situation for one simple reason--the powerful elites within them overreached in good times and... [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:22pm EDT
  

• Oklahoma Health Insurance Premiums Rise 40 Percent

  —blue oklahoma

  

  Does anyone here really think without national health care reform a magic day will come when the cost of insurance premiums will stabilize or decrease?

  Here's a fact that makes that magic day a real fantasy: Health insurance premiums rose more than 40 percent in Oklahoma [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:03pm EDT
  

• Report Shows Substantial Increase In Health Insurance Premiums

  —Okie Funk

  

  Does anyone here really think without national health care reform a magic day will come when the cost of insurance premiums will stabilize or decrease?

  Here’s a fact that makes that magic day a real fantasy: Health insurance premiums rose more than 40 percent in Oklahoma [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:55pm EDT
  by dochoc

• Lincoln-Reagan Dinner with J.C. Watts Tonight!

  —The Musings of a Muskogee Politico

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  The Muskogee County Republican Party is holding their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner tonight, with guest speaker J.C. Watts. There is a photo op with Watts at 6:30pm for $100; the Dinner starts at 7:00pm. Dinner tickets are $35 each.
  
  Festivities include a raffle for two tickets for the upcoming [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:39pm EDT
  by MuskogeePolitico

• Behenna Petition Drive Attracts 15,000 Signatures

  —The McCarville Report Online

  A petition seeking a new trial for Army Lt. Michael Behenna has now attracted almost 15,000 signatures.
  Behenna, of Edmond, was in Iraq a year ago when he killed an al Qaida operative being released from detention. Behenna said he shot in self defense; prosecutors [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:03pm EDT
  

• Sweeden Pushes 'Make My Day' Expansion

  —The McCarville Report Online

  Senator Joe Sweeden says he will continue fighting for expansion of the state’s “Make My Day” legislation, as his proposal to expand the rights of business owners to defend their property moves to the House.
  
  Sweeden said Senate Bill 2257 would make it lawful [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 10:28am EDT
  

• U.S. Census Bureau Director Uses Constitution

  —News According to Bob

  In recognition today of the 259th birthday of James Madison, the principal writer of the Constitution and the fourth President of the United States, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves visited Montpelier — Madison’s colonial home near Orange, Va. Groves stood in Madison’s library, the very room that one of the [...]
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  Fetched: March 18, 2010, 9:28am EDT
  

• Shelton Make News With Crack Pipes

  —The Musings of a Muskogee Politico

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  State Rep. Mike Shelton (D-OKC), who recently was in the news over the portrait flap in the State House, has made the news again - this time for attempting to hand out crack pipes to legislators at the Capitol.
  
  Sources say that Shelton carried [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 8:45am EDT
  by MuskogeePolitico

• Things that are awesome and suck about the NCAA Tournament

  —gundys lettuce (sports)

  Awesome: -Hearing Gus Johnson pass a kidney stone during a last second shot. -NCAA Tournament brackets with $$ at stake. -No more Billy Packer -The cozy, Cardigan-ed voice of Jim Nantz -Being introduced to names like Kevin Pittsnogle. -OU is not in the tournament -Less tattoos than the NBA. -Potential Mike Gundy crowd shots from the regional in [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 8:42am EDT
  by dumpsweats2009

• President Obama on FOX News – Video

  —Political Realities.

  I think it would be beneficial to watch this video of the interview FOX News conducted with President Obama on March 17, 2010. With all due respect to the President, he did not answer the question Bret Baier asked him at the onset of the interview. Every time Baier tried [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 6:40am EDT
  by LD Jackson

• What is Tulsa Backwards?

  —Irritated Tulsan

  There is a guy I work with that continually feels the need to know what other people are doing outside of work. Personally I attribute it to the fact that he could be the long lost brother of Forrest Gump and that he is a NASCAR loving, redneck Republican. I do [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 6:22am EDT
  by bestandworstofokc

• Fox 25's Andrew Speno On Obama Portrait Flap

  —The McCarville Report Online

  Fox 25 News anchor Andrew Speno examines the controversy over the removal of President Obama's portrait in the House chamber. [www.okcfox.com]. [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:38am EDT
  

• Inhofe Attacks DeMint Over Earmarks

  —The McCarville Report Online

  From Politico ~ Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe on Wednesday accused his Republican colleague Sen. Jim DeMint of taking a hypocritical stand opposing earmarks, saying that the South Carolina conservative previously directed money back home for a series of road projects.
  In an unusual speech on the [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 4:54am EDT