OCPAC: Boren Gives Askins a Job and Next House Speaker Race about Over?

++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING++ ANNOUNCEMENTS++ PRESIDENT BOREN GIVES ASKINS A JOB++ IS THE RACE FOR THE NEXT HOUSE SPEAKER ABOUT OVER?++ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETINGOur 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday, March 9th will be held at Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC.

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Fighting Healthcare while Implementing It??? Pah-leeeze

On Friday, Feburary 25, 2011 OK Governor Mary Fallin issued a press release announcing ”Oklahoma Will Accept $54 M “Early Innovator Grant” to Support Oklahoma-Based Health Insurance Exchange.” Noticably missing from the announcement is the fact that the “Early Innovators” grants are to fund implementation of the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure needed to operate Health Insurance Exchanges, a cornerstone of [...]

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SA@TAC – ‘Extremism’ in Wisconsin

There are many problems with American politics but “extremism” is not one of them. For all the mainstream media’s criticism of the Tea Party being too “extreme” or the GOP supposedly adopting the movement’s “radical” rhetoric and action...

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Rule of Law – Best of the Blogosphere

From time to time Grassroots in Michigan will feature guest bloggers writing on topics of interest on a state and national level From The Wizard of Laws Being a Judge Means Following the Law, No Matter How Distasteful Last year’s Michigan Supreme Court race featured a fairly clear choice between rule-of-law judges and empathy judges.  …

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Michael Moore is giving away his money in 3, 2, 1…ummm, 2, 3, 4…

Still waiting… Your money doesn’t belong to you. If you’re “rich”, however rich is defined these days (on the left, seems anyone with more than you is “rich”), that money is a natural resource that belongs to everybody [emphasis mine]; “We’re not broke.  This country is not broke.  The state of Wisconsin is not broke.  [...]

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