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Ensuring That Only Citizens Vote
We may never know how many non-citizens voted illegally on November 4. A report on FOX affiliate WFLD-TV in Chicago that aired just bef...
Where the Torch of Liberty Is Still Lit
With much of the nation caught up in the drama of the financial calamity which is headlining all the news these days, it's good to know ...
Why I Am a Liberal
Words mean something. As human beings we stand alone in our use of language as our primary method of communication. We have confidence i...
What a Year!
This has been an interesting year nationally to say the least, especially the last few months. Change has come to America but as most ad...
Edmondson Should Free 'The Oklahoma Three'
Last month, several organizations sponsored a meeting in Oklahoma City focused on the initiative process in Oklahoma and the nation. Pan...
Revisions are overdue
Political types like to boast that they have been "right from the beginning.” Unfortunately, our state’s constitution, in too many ways,...
Protecting Oklahomans from Nefarious Interior Designers
Should “Joe the Plumber” be allowed to do plumbing work without all the requisite licenses and affiliations? What if he were calling him...
Liberty Gala in Tulsa a Great Success
On the evening of September 18th, OCPA hosted the Liberty Gala at the Renaissance Tulsa Convention Hotel to celebrate our 15th anniversa...
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Advertisements often have puffery, containing statements like "longest lasting" or "best tasting" or the like. Indeed, many advertisemen...
Fifteen Enthusiastic Years ...
I remember the first OCPA board of trustees meeting-in Oklahoma City in 1993-almost as vividly as the most recent board meeting in Tulsa...
Summer Doesn’t Slow Down for OCPA!
This summer has been a busy one. More policy ideas have been discussed and written about than at any time in our history. More media out...
Politicians’ Power Dwarfs the Rich
There's no shortage of harping about the exorbitant incomes of America's superstar entertainers, CEOs, investment bankers, and others. B...
A Senator in the ‘No’
Some years back, a newspaper comic strip showed lemmings running toward a cliff. One said to another, "Don't worry, this was a bipartisa...
Why the Founders Would Join OCPA
The days that followed September 11 have presented our country with a challenge every bit as great as that faced by the generation of th...
Light Bulb Lunacy
How many people does it take to change a light bulb? Four hundred, if the people in question are members of the United States Congress. ...
Uncommon Sense, and Meese the Scholar
It's been awhile, but I used to be Ed Meese's editor. Meese contributed to two books I compiled in Washington D.C. Additionally, he was ...
The 'Free Enterprise' Business
It’s amazing what happens when the free-enterprise system is permitted to work without the restraints of excessive governmental interfer...
Cherishing Meese: The Man and the Mediator
In a news story printed the day after Edwin Meese III resigned as U.S. attorney general in 1988, reporters for the Washington Post quote...
A Time for Liberty and Independence
The days surrounding the Fourth of July always invoke the essence of liberty. It's a time for fireworks and hot dogs and picnics with th...
Ron Peterson's Stand for Principle
Late in this year’s legislative session, early in a long interview at his state capitol office, state Rep. Ron Peterson (R-Tulsa) respon...
