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Photo credit: Calvin Rees
What’s really sad about this picture (besides this woman being a mindless sheeple!) is the fact that if Obamacare was ever inacted into law, this elderly woman would most likey be a cost cutting casualty of one of the President’s death panels if she ever became seriously ill!
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AT&T Strengthens 3G Wireless Coverage in Oklahoma City
“This is a significant investment and shows that even in a slow economy, cell phone competition is alive and well, especially in Oklahoma City,” said Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. “New wireless technology benefits our business community, our local economy and our overall quality of life.” Read more…
The Sam Adams Alliance initiative, Health Administration Bureau , offers another glimpse into what government-controlled medicine will look like in the new video, “Health Czar, Interrupted,” featuring talk-radio host and National Review Online contributor, Guy Benson.
HAB continues its efforts to educate America on what the future of health care will look like if medical choice is taken away from the people.
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State Rep. Mike Ritze today said the voters of Oklahoma should have the opportunity to preserve their health care coverage even if Congress enacts sweeping changes at the federal level. To provide that opportunity, he will file legislation next year allowing a vote of the people to opt out of the proposed federal system.
“Polling shows the overwhelming majority of Americans are satisfied with their health care coverage and do not want it taken away,” said Ritze, a Broken Arrow Republican who is also a board-certified family practice physician and surgeon. “Many of the proposals under consideration in Congress are likely to result in reduced access to a family doctor, rationing of services, or even outright denial of care if a bureaucrat decides it is not a ‘best practice.’ My legislation would give the voters the ability to protect and preserve their existing health care coverage.”
Washington Examiner: DNC withdraws ‘false’ and ‘misleading’ ad accusing GOP of plotting to kill Medicare
Hat tip: samadamsalliance
I’m sorry I missed last week’s column. It was a busy week and I did not have the chance to sit down and reflect on all which occurred. I’ll try to get everyone caught up to date.
My family lost my grandmother, Jackie Henderson, to cancer this past Friday. She lived in Jacksboro, Texas and her funeral was on Monday. It was a service she would have liked as people reflected on the good times with her and the memories which brought back laughs. It was the first time many of our cousins had been together in years and we agreed that we would try to spend more time together, especially since many of them have children the same age as when we would get together at holidays. She and my grandfather were very supportive of the grandkids and encouraged us to achieve our dreams. All eight of their grandchildren will have completed college degrees (one is in his final year). This is truly the meaning of family values when they worked to improve the lives of the next two generations of their family. Read more…
Learning from the Failures of other States
Rep. Jason Murphey
If you spend much time watching business or news networks such as CNBC or FOX, you may have noticed a commercial promoting Michigan as a good location for business owners to conduct business. For the past several years, Michigan’s political leaders have offered $3.3 billion in tax credits through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, and spent another $1.6 billion in outlays to create and retain jobs. The subsidies include tax breaks for film production, funding for new industrial plants, and millions for the nationwide TV ads starring celebrities talking about business and tourism to Michigan.
Upon seeing the ad, and aside from thinking about how wasteful it is for state government to spend money on television commercials, I seriously question how the politicians in Michigan can so aggressively insult the intelligence of American business owners. Read more…
Hello again, everybody! Recently, I was in a political skirmish with an organization that issued a report critical of Oklahoma’s back-to-school sales tax holiday.
Passing the sales tax holiday was one of the most important legislative goals I had when you elected me to be your senator. Forces from big city mayors to high-dollar lobbyists worked to defeat the proposal. After years of hard work, perseverance and bipartisan cooperation, we finally overcame those obstacles to pass the bill.
Although the sales tax holiday has been in effect for three years, and is very popular across Oklahoma, some still fight it. One of those groups continuing to oppose the sales tax holiday is The Tax Foundation, a Washington special interest group. Read more…
The Obama Administration and the Service Employees International Union (yes, the union that beats up Obamacare protesters) must be really getting desperate to make this claim!
From the SEIU’s blog:
In DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that “domestic violence victim” is also a pre-existing condition. Words cannot describe the sheer inhumanity of this claim. Read more…
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Video: “You Blue Dog You”
Hat tip: OklahomaHorizonTV
Mayor Mick Cornett is widely respected for integrity. His new employer is not. OKPNS was the only media outlet to report about the agency’s jaw-dropping conflict of interest in the coal-fired plant battle back in 2007.
Sure, OG&E’s executives were morons, but nonetheless the agency took advantage of the clueless electric company. It was a screaming conflict of interest, ignored by the city newspaper, which in the story outlines how the agency will rely on the taxpayer’s lawyer to determine what is or isn’t a conflict of interest. That’s right: the Mayor’s subordinates will now be forced to tell their BOSS what is a conflict of interest. Once again, the corporate welfare crowd screws Oklahoma City taxpayers. Good Grief Almighty!
His life and career indicates that Mayor Cornett is an ethical and upright man, but let’s be honest: the ad agency is hiring the Mayor for contacts and potential new business. The is a cozy chumminess between the ad agency and the newspaper, whose former boss now works for the ad agency. If it sounds sleazy to you, you are not alone.
There are perhaps 10-15 media professionals in Oklahoma City with far more stellar professional credentials than the Mayor, so let’s not kid ourselves: this is about connections. So for all the employees of Ackerman-McQueen, welcome to OKPNS! Like the city paper, Chesapeake, WAD Edmondson and other characters who hate openness and transparency, we welcome your bookmark! Because based upon your past, you’ll be coming back here in the future!
From Examiner.com:
Though the race to replace Sandy Garrett as State Superintendent has barely begun, the whisper campaign is already in full swing.
Supporters of Republican candidate Janet Barresi, an Edmond dentist, are suggesting that Republican candidate Shawn Hime, Superintendent of Enid Schools, is too closely linked to Sandy Garrett. Hime, who has not yet formally kicked off his campaign yet, worked for Garrett in the Oklahoma Department of Education before he became Superintendent of Enid Schools last year. He served as assistant state superintendent with responsibilities in the management of state aid, financial accounting, school personnel records, transportation, transfers and capital improvement departments.
The whisper campaign being led by Barresi’s surrogates suggests that Republicans who want a clean break from the five terms of Democrat Sandy Garrett should not support Hime because he worked for Garrett. Read more…