Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace. Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens ...
Lamentations 5:1,2 [...]
edited by: Justin Tyme,
Oklahoma Editor
It will take a few days for me to get the permission list together for my new private blog. In the meanwhile, anyone can preview that blog at: http://bkumpe.blogspot.com .
There is a Gresham's law of sorts in all public and private relationships. Just as bad money drives good money from the market, bad bloggers can drive good bloggers from the marketplace of ideas. There are situations that people with responsibilities simply cannot tolerate.
Many people these days have the mistaken idea that private individuals must associate with people and organizations they find insulting and whose values they find antithetical to their own. While this may be true to a certain extent in the public context, it is not true [...] 
From the Army Times:The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they’re training for the same mission — with a [...]
This morning, I listened to Dr. Tom Coburn explain his bail out vote on Tulsa talk radio station KFAQ. Coburn explained why he, perhaps the most fiscally conservative senator on the hill, voted for an admittedly unconstitutional and certainly too expensive bail out plan for the [...] 
Like much of the nation, I woke up this morning to hear the President of the United States on the radio. When you have a problem so serious that the President is addressing the nation at 6:30 A.M. something is very wrong.
The so-called "Obama Truth Squads" now operating in states like Missouri, South Carolina and Pennsylvania as well as the internet are composed in part of Democratic elected officials such as law enforcement officials and officers of the court. They are a frightening example of the lengths [...] 
The Drudge Report is carrying a statement by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt which accuses Barrack Obama of trying to employ Democratic law enforcement officials to silence critics:
An ashen faced George Bush warned the nation last night that if his so called economic bail out plan is not passed the nation is facing a painful recession. The words "painful recession" may the euphemism of the decade if not the century. In a copyrighted [...] 
To no one's surprise in particular, two Tulsa City Councilors who failed to even notify their neighborhoods that a huge homeless shelter was going to built there, much less help them fight it, have been temporarily reprieved. City officials declared that the' [...] 
Long ago and far away, I was a reporter for a small daily newspaper. I worked the police, crime and courts beat as well as covering local politics and other "hard news." I wrote so much of page one and page two every day that the [...] 
I am a lawyer. I am in the business of helping people get through conflict. One of the greatest hindrances I have found in this task is people's inability to see a situation from the other side's viewpoint. I live in one of the neighborhoods adjoining [...] 
I find it hard to get up much enthusiasm for presidential elections anymore. What should be a serious discourse leading up to the selection of two of America's best and brightest to lead us has turned into a media frenzy with opposing "brands" being hawked to' [...] 
The long knives have already been drawn against Sarah Palin in the GOP establishment and she hasn't even been elected yet. Palin is not and never will be a member of that class and they will never forget it or let her.' [...] 
Timing is everything in politics. The more I hear about Sarah Palin the more I like her. She is obviously a smart, powerful, remarkably decent woman who has what it takes to be a real player in American politics. But, that does not mean that she [...] 
I woke up this morning to learn that Dr. James Dobson has endorsed John McCain for President.
Catholic News Agency ^ | 8/26/08 Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:19:07 AM by marshmallow
Denver, Aug 25, 2008 / 11:51 pm (CNA).- Tim Gill, a billionaire from Colorado who has funded homosexual activism throughout the United States, spoke at [...]
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 27 /Standard Newswire/ -- During a court hearing yesterday, federal district court Judge David O. Carter announced that he is dismissing a last-ditch effort by "same-sex marriage" proponents to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The case is Smelt [...] 
Lillian Ladele was threatened with the sack because of her beliefs on homosexuality.A Christian [...]
The following is a letter to the editor written by Crystal Dixon, a black, former employee of an Ohio University. I say "former" because she was fired for writing this article shortly after it was printed in the Toledo Free Press. Is this "tolerance?"
A few weeks ago, Oklahoma County District Court Judge Bill Graves was "reassigned" to duties not usually assigned to a full District Court Judge. The speculation both in Oklahoma and nationally has been that he is being punished for his public opposition to new proposed "gay [...] 
"I think we may be going a bridge to far."
This morning, I have listened in amazement as local talk radio station KFAQ listeners, who are self identified Republicans, lined up one after the other to testify that they would vote for John McCain even if he chose a pro-choice VP candidate.>THE WHITE CITY BLUES
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>Rich people spending lots of money
>To make everything nice downtown
>And the one thing they sure don’t want to see
>Is [...]
construction of a large low rent housing facility near Admiral and Yale. Downtown property owners are making a full court press right now to move the homeless and semi-homeless out of [...] First of all, there is no such thing as "Judeo-Christian values." That's a phrase made up by certain Christians who want to feel better about thrusting their supposed moral superiority on the world. They throw "Judeo" [...]
I am not afraid of death any more. When I was young the early death of my father cast a shadow over me -- he died at the age of 27 -- [...]
It never ceases to amaze me when I see my blog listed among the most influential LIBERAL blogs in Oklahoma. This situation is a perfect illustration of just how convoluted American politics have become. They say confession is good for the soul, so I am going to confess a few [...]
Many Oklahoma citizens unfamiliar with the culture war don't understand how a popularly elected Oklahoma judge could be demoted for simply exercising his constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights. The official position is that Judge Bill Graves was not demoted, but simply reassigned to other duties where he was needed [...]
I am involved in a billing dispute with a small electric cooperative in rural Eastern Oklahoma, Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative. It is my contention that, among other things, they generated unnecessary service charges far out of proportion to the amount due and then demanded extortionate terms [...] "I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcas
t to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 15, 2008
Liberty Counsel Holds Joint Press Conference to Address McDonalds’ Anti-Christian Attacks
Chicago, IL – On Wednesday, July 16, at 10:00 a.m., Liberty Counsel will participate in a joint press conference with [...]
Presidential hopeful John McCain addressed a latino political group called La Raza Monday. La Raza literally translated means "the race." The motto of this organization is, ""For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada," which literally translates, "For the (latino) race everything, for everyone else, [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a state judge acted within his authority when he vacated a divorce unknowingly granted to two women. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case in October 2007 on behalf of then-Oklahoma Speaker of [...]
ssault cases. Named after its author, a highly respected 17th Century British judge, Matthew Hale, it cautioned the jury: "rape is an accusation easily to be made, hard [...] 
rdscrabble farm. My parents were classic Okies. My mother's people were sharecroppers. My father got his social [...] The following is an edited version of an article appearing in this weeks National Catholic Register. The full article can be found HERE.
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Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and the Persecution of Civil Society
BY JENNIFER ROBACK MORSE
June 8-14, 2008 Issue | Posted 6/3/08 at 10:48 AM
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