May 9, 2025
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The constitutional crisis that people kept warning the world about is now front and center.
The wanna-be dictator shared an AI-generated photo of himself as the Pope days after the real Pontiff’s death. Further, trump claimed he was the number one…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Yep, it’s so quiet, so, so quiet, you can hear America tiptoeing away from democracy.
Donald Trump isn’t just King again. He’s the warden, the judge, the jury - and let’s be honest, the guy smuggling contraband into the prison yard.…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
When children are taught certain things and conditioned in specific ways about history, society and culture, this is how practices, policies and institutions are perpetuated.
As America has a reckoning over its legacy of racism and enslavement and the telling of history, along comes a story that should outrage us all,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The curriculum heavily promotes Christianity and Christian principles and theology.
This upcoming 2025–26 academic school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to “learn” about President Trump’s discredited claims that fraud marred…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
I never heard Secretary Herman raise her voice, but I often saw her firm. She was grace, but she didn’t play. She was kind but she didn’t roll over. She attracted a coterie of loyal friends and colleagues, because she was, indeed loyal and graceful.
May we take a moment to mourn the transition of the Honorable Alxis Margaret Herman (1946-2025), the first African American woman who served our nation as…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The Capitulation of Lawyers in Trump’s America Should Remind Us How It Began in Nazi Germany.
Nine of America’s largest and most powerful law firms have surrendered to President Donald Trump’s illegal threats. They demeaned themselves by agreeing to provide an astonishing…
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