by Byron Schlomach | Jan 3, 2022 | Blog
I came here almost 7 years ago, driving in on I-40 from Arizona in my 1965 vintage motorhome. It was quite the adventure to be here when the long drought was broken. Having grown up near Wichita Falls, Texas, I’d heard tornado sirens before, but after living in...
by Byron Schlomach | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog
Throughout decades of advocacy for school choice, a major impediment has been rural legislators. Republicans and Democrats alike, they are led to believe by the superintendents of rural school districts that school choice will financially destroy, or otherwise somehow...
by Byron Schlomach | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog
Vice President Kamala Harris was recently asked by the host of “Tha God’s Honest Truth” (not surprisingly for Comedy Central, a blasphemous show name since the host often deals in falsehood) who the president was, Joe Biden or Joe Manchin. Obviously, our current...
by Mike Davis | Dec 20, 2021 | Blog
Recently there have been calls in conservative quarters to move away from a commitment to originalism in constitutional interpretation. Often these missives do not call for a total abandonment of originalism, merely for relegating it to one tool of many. Whether these...
by Tyler Williamson | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog
Last week, the Oklahoman published an article discussing Governor Stitt’s increased use of a business incentive called the Quick Action Closing Fund. A recent 1889 blog addressed some of the fiscal pitfalls of the program (and other corporate welfare schemes like it),...
by Brad Galbraith | Dec 13, 2021 | Blog
Reflecting on one semester in Oklahoma’s traditional public school system, with two kids in the same grade but different teachers, I can definitively say it’s been a mixed bag. Our experience has been tolerable for one child and completely unacceptable for the other....
