Okie Pundit

Kaye Beach is attacking us because we described Amy Corley as “far-left” in our legislative rundown.  Beach, a libertarian activist who honestly believes RJ Harris will defeat Tom Cole, wrote a vaguely coherent piece in which she contends Corley isn’t to the left as much as she is an independent.  Whatever that means.  She bases this conclusion [...]

Oklahomans are a conservative people who generally desire government stay out of their lives and for people to take personal responsibility for their actions and their way of life.   That’s the way it should be, but sometimes we are reminded that’s not always how it can be. An annual obesity report by two public health groups [...]

In a recently-released Gallup poll, conservatives continued to dominate the political ideology numbers, while liberals fell to a historic low. Twice as many Americans describe themselves as conservatives than as liberals. Gallup found that 42% of Americans say they’re conservative or very conservative, while only 20% say they’re liberal or very liberal. Self-described moderates were [...]

It’s been a rough week for Randy Brogdon. A new poll showed he is on pace for the 50 percentage point defeat we predicted months ago while potential Presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty endorsed his opponent Mary Fallin. These endorsements prompted many Brogdon supporters to attack Palin and Fallin and praise Brogdon’s principled [...]

Gallup reports today that the major party identification advantage Democrats built up over the last few years has essentially evaporated.  From 2007 to 2009, an average of 52% of American said they were Democrats or leaned Democrat, while an average of 39% said they were Republicans or leaned Republicans.  Today, it is a statistical tie.  [...]

State Senator Randy Brogdon is backtracking from his call for a militia to “resist the federal government,” claiming he meant to say we need a militia in case we face another ice storm or bombing. “If we had another ice storm or bombing, it would be very calming and reassuring to know that the chief [...]

Frank Rich made some waves in the blogosphere over the weekend with his absurd column claiming that the reaction to the passage of the health care law was motivated by racism. His column is filled with so many incorrect arguments it would be impossible to refute them all. We did, however, want to display his [...]

Did you know 40% of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, a third think he’s a Muslim, and a full quarter believe he was born outside the United States?  Well, you shouldn’t know that because it’s not true, despite what a shoddy poll claimed. Harris Interactive published a poll that purportedly showed how extreme many [...]

Remember when Democrats and defenders of President Obama flipped out when Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives claimed Obama was a socialist?  They said it was “hate speech” and motivated by racism. They and media outlets like MSNBC and CNN scoffed at the notion and ridiculed those who said it.   Personally, I was glad to finally [...]

“The 2008 elections gave liberals the curse of opportunity, and they have used it to reveal themselves ruinously… The essence of contemporary liberalism is the illiberal conviction that Americans, in their comprehensive incompetence, need minute supervision by government, which liberals believe exists to spare citizens the torture of thinking and choosing.” –George Will