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As I pulled weeds in the front yard Sunday afternoon I could hear a chain saw down the street. That sound was a reminder of downed trees being cut in the aftermath of a tornado.
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Brian Walter’s efforts may be taking hold
Read moreThe explosion of violent and shockingly antisemitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March last year, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, screaming vulgar epithets and refusing to allow him to speak. In October, the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania embarrassed themselves in congressional hearings convened to ask about combating antisemitism on their campuses. Penn President Liz Magill resigned immediately thereafter. Harvard’s President Claudine Gay survived that controversy but resigned a few weeks later when multiple instances of plagiarism in her research were exposed.
Read moreFormer British Prime Minister Liz Truss spoke recently at The Heritage Foundation about how the United States and the United Kingdom are facing very challenging forces in the global Left, not just in terms of their extremist activists, but also in the power they hold in our institutions. ( Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)
Read moreFour years ago today, Paycom, a company worth around $12.5 billion at the time, sued OCPA over an article OCPA published that referenced an open letter the company’s CEO, Chad Richison, sent to Governor Kevin Stitt. The letter, which was linked in the article, requested the governor take draconian measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 and abandon the “continued inaction on the part of the executive branch.” Today, on the fourth anniversary of Paycom’s predatory and meritless lawsuit that it continues to pursue in court to this day—and which has cost OCPA more than $1.1 million in attorneys’ fees so far—we want to look back at what caused the lawsuit and update everyone on some of what has happened since.
Read moreIn their defense of the secretive Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC), which selects major Oklahoma judges, officials with the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA) have claimed the commission removes politics from the process.
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