A friendly crowd -- his biggest since leaving office -- greets the former president on the Fourth of July. Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was "the greatest nation on the face of the earth."
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) - Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was "the greatest nation on the face of the earth."
About 9,200 tickets have been sold for the event, which would be the biggest crowd for Bush since he left office in January. Seats for the speech — being held at a rodeo arena built in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration — range from $25 up to $500 for the "Oval Office Ticket" in the first rows, close to Bush, with VIP parking and complimentary beverages.
I love Oklahoma. I was born and raised here. My grandparents helped settle two areas of this great state. One side helped settle the northeast part of Oklahoma and one side helped settle central Oklahoma. My love for this state is deep seated within my soul. I believe in the people of Oklahoma. I have seen Oklahomans rise through the ashes of tornados, wildfire, ice storms, and terrorism. There is...
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State Rep. Sally Kern’s political stunts and religious extremism continue to sully the state’s image. Kern has become a national spectacle in a sad story of bigotry and narrow-minded religious views . How can it possibly help Oklahoma that so many people outsidethe state immediately think of Kern and what she has said and done when they even bother to think about the state at all? It should...
Howard AllredHoward Allred, a Merchant Marine veteran who became one of the first U.S. prisoners of war in World War II when the Japanese seized his ship on Dec. 7, 1941, has died at age 92. He died June 27 of pneumonia, said his son Roland. Mr. Allred was a quiet American hero in a rarely told story about the SS President Harrison, a Merchant Marine ship chartered by the Navy in 1941 to evacuate...
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was "the greatest nation on the face of the earth."...
WOODWARD, Okla. -- Former President George W. Bush, who has turned up in a handful of out-of-the-way places since leaving office, was set to spend part of Independence Day speaking at a remodeled rodeo arena in northwestern Oklahoma.
Former President George W. Bush spoke amid thunderous applause in a rural Oklahoma town to celebrate the Fourth of July, calling the U.S. the "greatest nation on the face of the earth."
Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma, who has called being gay a "deadly lifestyle", has released what she calls a "Proclamation for Morality", which reads more like a manifesto against homosexuality. Kern, who apparently is unfamiliar with the fact that the United States was founded on the principle of separation of church and State, consistently uses religion as a basis for her arguments....
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 3 (UPI) -- Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern used the Statehouse as a backdrop for the release of a proclamation urging the United States to return to biblical values. Kern drew about 250 people Thursday, some to support her and sign her proclamation while a smaller group came to protest it, the Daily Oklahoman reported. Critics said she violated separation of church and state by...
Spring and I and a friend of mine from OKC, Carlo, traveled to the Capitol building to stand up to OK Representative Sally Kern’s “Oklahoma Citizens’ Proclamation for Morality.” Inside the building, there were about two hundred people gathered to support/sign the Proclamation or to protest against the Proclamation. Several police officers were on hand, watching [...]
OK Rep. Sally Kern and her supporters held a "morality rally" on the first floor of the state Capitol yesterday, where protesters tried to outshout Kern's idiots. The rally was held to promote Kern's attempt to have the legislature endorse her "Proclamation of Morality, " which I recently mentioned here . Among many other things, Kern's proclamation blames gays for the state of...
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At least according to one Oklahoma Representative. Well, the immoral acts have been done by all of us from every political stripe. We have seen lust in the representatives of both parties. We have seen greed. We have seen all sorts of immoral actions from both the GOP and Democrats. Let's not forget independents. Those emmy award winners have produced nothing but ridicule and scorn from the American...
The Oklahoma Sooners see themselves listed as 7-point underdogs going into their Elite Eight tilt with the North Carolina Tar Heels later today–the Total is listed at 164. In the last 20 games when underdogs of 8-points or less, Oklahoma is only 5-15 ATS but it has gone Under 14 out of 20 times. For more information on march madness schedules and events, see on Online Sports Betting .
What Should You Do If You Are A Victim Of Health Insurance Fraud? Health insurance fraud is unfortunately all too common today and, despite your best efforts, there is a chance that you will fall victim to this particularly nasty crime. So what do you...
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