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A Little Help? -or- Be a Good Shopper

I am on the Board of Trustees for Green Country Baptist Camp in Disney, Oklahoma. It’s an encampment for the use of the 60+ churches in the Craig-Mayes and Rogers Baptist Associations. I grew up going to day camp, pre-teen, and youth camps there, and it’s a privilege to now serve on the Board.
We’ve been [...]

Oklahoma Teacher Pay Ranked 14th Highest

J. Scott Moody and Brandon Dutcher write at NewsOK that there is a very important part of the discussion being ignored in regards to the Oklahoma teacher pay discussion.
What must be considered in this and any conversation about income is that same area’s cost of living. Sure, Oklahoma’s teacher pay ranks low (40th in the [...]

Intellectual Socialism

Under socialism, the producers pay for the non-producers. Apparently, at Langston University, the responsible thinking persons pay for the brain-dead losers.
In a story on NewOK.com, it is reported that because some skull-full-of-jello fired a gun on the Langston University campus, rules are being changed to improve safety on campus. The changes?

a safety hot line,
hiring more [...]

Belated Thanks to Oklahoma Magazine

Oklahoma Magazine’s print copy is a beautifully designed and presented production. I discovered last week that the WynnBlog has been named one of Oklahoma Magazine’s 75 best Oklahoma websites. To see the list online, click here. The WynnBlog is listed 18 (I don’t think it is rank ordered, just numbered). If you visit the magazine’s [...]

Irresponsible Media is Responsible for McCain’s Poor Campaign (If It is Poor)

The folks at the Politico have responded to charges of bias toward Obama by saying it’s not their fault, McCain has just run a bad campaign. It struck me that McCain is of the media’s own making.
John McCain is the Republican nominee this year as a direct result of years and years of the media’s [...]

The Polling Fallacy

Does anyone realize how worthless polls of the national popular vote are?
In the first place, they are too close to call. And even more importantly, we do not elect presidents by popular vote. Essentially what is being reported is Obama’s daily popularity contest standings. No one can even begin to give you a reasonable look [...]

He Ain’t Good Lookin’ But He Sure Can Play -or- Here’s to 10 Wonderful Years

Jeane and I celebrated our 10th anniversary tonight (it was Oct. 10) by attending a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from the PAC’s downtown-Tulsa Chapman Music Hall. It’s a miracle we got tickets and big props to Jeane for making it happen. Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and the Guy’s [...]

It Proves One Thing

The current world economic mess proves one big thing: The United States of America is not nearly as insignificant to the rest of the world as they would sometimes like us to believe. A strong American economy is good for the world, and it would do some folks well to remember that…

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Fair Tax Perfect Storm

Methinks the current state of financial affairs in this nation (not to mention the world) could be the perfect storm we need to get some genuine consideration, and hopefully passage, of the Fair Tax.
Here are a few reasons. They dovetail well with these.

The Fair Tax is a huge, great big, fat, enormous shift of power [...]

Poignant

We’re in the midst of the most hectic part of our year. We just had the church’s 80th anniversary homecoming last week, business is busier than ever, and we have some other obligations that have us swamped. We, however, took a little break tonight to catch the late showing of An American Carol. All I [...]