By Theodore King

Hobby Lobby's Victory and the Aftermath

The Rise of UKIP; What Is Ukip? What UKIP May Mean to Us

The Border Crisis

Two Other Notes

A Few Thoughts about the June 24th Primaries

Congratulations to Congressman James Lankford, who after winning the Republican nomination on June 24th will certainly be elected to the Senate this November. He will become the first senator from Oklahoma City since Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney, who served from 1951 to 1969. Prior to his election to the Senate, Monroney was, like Lankford, a Member of the House of Representatives from Oklahoma City. James Lankford was not the ideal choice given his flip-flop votes on the farm bill (he voted for it and later against it) and his vote to allow the National Security Agency to continue to collect data on all our phone calls.

James Lankford won fair and square. Mississippi's six-term Senator Thad Cochran did not. He was forced into a runoff on June 24th with Tea Party-backed State Senator Chris McDaniel and won. Cochran's campaign solicited votes from black Democrats to try to ensure a come from behind victory. Mississippi, unlike Oklahoma, does not have a closed primary system in which only registered party members may vote in a party primary. Cochran's people even distributed libelous flyers in black neighborhoods that claimed McDaniel is a Tea Party racist. A black pastor has come forward claiming he was given money by the Cochran campaign to hand out the material to black voters to vote for Cochran. This shameful situation shows there is a war going on within the Republican Party between the establishment represented by craven Washington insiders like Thad Cochran and the grass roots represented by the Tea Party. I hope Thad Cochran loses in November and the Democrat is elected. If the establishment can get away with such shenanigans in Mississippi, they will do that sort of thing in other elections throughout the country.

Hobby Lobby's Victory and the Aftermath

Former Democrat State Senator Judy Eason McIntyre and members of the Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice protested on July 5th at the curb of Hobby Lobby's Tulsa store on South Harvard Avenue. She and those other supporters of child sacrifice (abortion) were protesting the Supreme Court decision that granted Hobby Lobby the right to opt out of those kinds of birth control that amount to abortion which they correctly deem are morally offensive. Similar protests took place in Des Moines, Madison, Phoenix, and Providence and in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Utah and probably other places. The National Organization of Lesbians (ah, I mean Women) took part in coordinating the protests.

On July 15th, Senate Democrats authored a bill to gut the Hobby Lobby decision which will go nowhere this election year. Democrats know they are likely to lose the Senate in the midterm elections. These protests and the subsequent Senate bill are an attempt to gin up the Democrat base by playing to the insanity of the left; they want no responsibilities, but they do want someone else to pay for them. Have you visited Hobby Lobby recently? You should by way of thanking the Green family, who own Hobby Lobby, for taking a stand for religious liberty.

The rise of UKIP; what is UKIP? What UKIP may mean to US

On May 22nd, British voters elected a majority of their representatives to the European Parliament from the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP). This was the first time in 100 years a British election has gone to a party other than the Conservative or Labour parties.

UKIP is an anti-European Union (EU) party; they want out of the EU, and it appears so do a lot of British voters. Why? Immigration. The European Union is a supranational state comprised of member nations. Great Britain is a member nation. EU member nations cannot control the influx of immigrants from other member nations which means people from poorer EU nations in Europe migrate to richer member nations. British voters have had enough.

Once dismissed by Prime Minister David Cameron as "a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists," UKIP has more working class people in Britain today than any other party, and that spells electoral doom for Cameron and the Conservatives in next year's parliamentary election. UKIP is led by a charismatic former Conservative Party member, Nigel Farage, a heavy drinking and smoking devotee of limited government and national identity. He has the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, whom he admired, and the personal habits of Winston Churchill. He has a good sense of humor, which has helped spread UKIP's message. The day may come when the Tea Party and liberty movements will have to become a new political party just as the forgotten middle class has in Britain with UKIP.

The border crisis

First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine has made two visits to Fort Sill, where thousands of minors from Central America are being housed for two weeks before they are released into the general population in what amounts to a quasi amnesty.

Fort Sill is in Congressman Tom Cole's fourth district. Why hasn't Tom Cole been to Fort Sill? Perhaps because he voted for the bill which is now law, in 2008, along with then Congresswoman Mary Fallin, to allow unaccompanied minors to have due process if they come from a country other than Mexico. Mexican youth are simply returned to Mexico.

Make no mistake about it: This crisis was manufactured by the American left through their proxies in Central America, and it was designed to overwhelm our system. Cole and Fallin voted for the law six years ago because they believed at the time it would reduce human trafficking.

Two Other Notes

The likely 2016 Republican nominee, Jeb Bush, has called illegal immigration "an act of love."

ObamaCare was created to insure that all Americans have the same level of care our veterans receive from the Veterans Administration.