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• President Obama is the biggest government spender in world history, while Oklahoma's political leaders are the biggest government spenders in state history.
• In the Tulsa Union school district, bureaucrats in marked security vehicles perform “residency checks” to make sure students actually live where they say they live -- even to the point of asking to see a 12-year-old girl's bedroom and personal belongings. Education reporter Mike Antonucci rightly calls this "the creepy school district border patrol."
• The old "big-box school model" is no longer working. And people know it.
• The "prosperity gospel" is America's premier heresy.
• If Oklahoma's 2012 legislative session had a hashtag, it would be #EpicFail.
• Catholic priest Robert Sirico, a former leftist associate of Jane Fonda, now makes the moral case for a free economy: