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Speeding is a dangerous and aggressive behavior that accounts for more than one-quarter of all traffic-related fatalities nationally. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office (OHSO) urge drivers to stop speeding and end this risky driving behavior, because Speeding Catches Up With You.
Read moreThe Bible skeptic Michael, that we have been engaged with for many weeks, asks a very important question: “Isn’t all religion just a mind game?” After all, it was the German philosopher Karl Marx who famously said; “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, and the soul of the soulless condition.” No doubt, critics of religion have long argued that it is a mind game we play with ourselves to soothe a fearful soul in a hostile world. Survival of the fittest surely selects for those who have the best coping mechanisms, right? No doubt, as soon as prehistoric men evolved enough to realize that everyone dies, his mind then evolved to find a resolution. Just so happened, religion fit the bill. Darwin himself considered there to be “an evolutionary derivation of mind and morality” as a product of natural selection. In other words, Darwin thought belief in God to be just a mind game as well. Very well then, let us begin once again from the common ground of modern science (twenty-first century science, that is).
Read moreBy Joe Dorman (Op-ed) Child abuse and neglect – otherwise known as maltreatment – should not just be a grave concern; it should be a call to action for every person to do what they can to help those youngest among us.
Read moreCreation of a flood control lake near Highways 9 and 377 is a possibility.
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Multiple agencies banded together to collar a suspect believed to have fired a weapon with intent to kill his target earlier this week.
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Read morePetroleum Alliance of Oklahoma President Brook A. Simmons issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overrule the Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which gave rise to the doctrine known as the Chevron deference. Under that doctrine, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a dispute, a court was required to uphold a federal agency’s interpretation of the statute: “Today, the American people won a huge victory against a massive, unaccountable federal bureaucracy that has for decades stifled U.S. innovation, destroyed jobs, and made every product and service more expensive. This is a big win for Oklahoma, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, and taxpayers from coast to coast.”
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