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An Oklahoma sheriff has quit his post after being charged with committing pretty much every sexual crime in the book against a number of female prisoners. For example, “rape by instrumentation.” If he’s convicted, he may serve up to 467 years in prison. Join us on a terrible sex tour of all the foul horrors former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess may have committed! MORE »

The Oklahoma Republican who charmed her way into America’s heart by denouncing the Gay Menace is now getting angry emails from people who want her dead. But instead of just coming right out and saying it, letter-writers beat around the bush with a bunch of doublespeak. MORE »

The past several years have taught us all a valuable lesson: the nuttiness of a Republican legislator’s homophobic rantings is directly proportional to the secret gay shame of that legislator, and inversely correlated to the amount of time before that person gets busted doing the thing they professed to find so repugnant. By this math, Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern will be discovered by week’s end trolling for muff in the ladies’ room of the World Golf Hall of Fame. MORE »

As the federal government continues to fail in its efforts to secure America’s borders from the illegal immigrant menace, state governments across the country are stepping up to the plate and passing their own bills against the menace of cheap labor. MORE »

* Have fun watching Bearrrrrto’s head roll, cause Attorney General Ted Olson ain’t gonna be no picnic. [Firedoglake]
* White House tells Rove, “Stay alive, no matter what occurs.” [Passport]
* Karl thinks preggers chicks are really annoying too. [Think Progress]
* When Tom DeLay goes on teevee, the only appropriate blurb would be “crooked-ass cracker.” [Media Matters]
* Country’s biggest rednecks jump aboard the Hussein train. [MoJo]
* American infatuation with settling for things extends to courts. [The Tortellini]
* Edwards is done. [Wizbang Politics]

Senator Coburn (R-Crazy Land) has written a very important letter to the president about a very serious situation in Iran.

As the White House is about to obliterate Iran for its own mad reasons — which will probably lead to a nuclear war and the complete destruction of the USA, which is totally asking for it — it’s important that Iranians get the best pro-U.S. propaganda before they’re blown up. But Coburn has discovered a wicked source of somewhat objective U.S. news and analysis reaching everyday Iranians.

The tragic part? The source is the Voice of America, which is run by the U.S. government, which means Coburn (probably) can’t bomb it. Read the dirty details, after the jump.

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Oh, those crazy, crazy Oklahoma City nights. MORE »

Gas giant ConocoPhillips is conducting an experiment in corporate civil disobedience. In its Oklahoma home office, it’s expressly flouting a state law forbidding employers from banning concealed weapons in the workplace. The National Rifle Association has retaliated in short order with a call to members to boycott Conoco gas stations and a series of billboards proclaiming “ConocoPhillips is no friend to the Second Amendment.” MORE »