Some Tax Credits in Oklahoma Could Be on Their Way Out

Oklahoma’s tax credits have become an industry themselves, and lawmakers are trying to come up with a solution.

Thunder Girls Ready to Entertain OKC Fans

Part of the attraction of going to a live Oklahoma City Thunder game at the Chesapeake Energy Arena includes the Thunder Girls.

Flicks, Picked (Redux): Edelstein’s 2011 Top 10 Films

Fresh Air’s film critic David Edelstein says 2011 was the kind of year without a list-topping film. “There’s no best film this year,” says Edelstein. “This is in alphabetical order because I liked all these movies, I loved some of them, but I just couldn’t pick a best. It wasn’t that kind of year.” Instead, [...]

‘The Dead Witness’: Classic Victorian Crime Fiction

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable “methods,” Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin, who pioneered deductive reasoning? Or quicksilver Violet Strange, debutante by day, intrepid sleuth by night? In The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s [...]

U.S. And Pakistan Relations: From Bad To Worse

In Pakistan, transit routes for NATO supply trucks heading to Afghanistan remain shut. The CIA drone missile program has gone quiet in Pakistan’s tribal area. Pakistan’s government has called for a re-negotiation of its troubled relationship with the U.S. All of this is fallout from an attack on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last month in which [...]

Gingrich’s Catholic Journey Began With Third Wife

Any discussion of Newt Gingrich’s journey to Catholicism begins with his wife. “I have always been a very spiritual person,” Callista Gingrich told the Christian Broadcasting Network this year. “I start each day with a prayer, and pray throughout the day, because I am grateful for the many blessings that God has bestowed upon us.” [...]

Texas Schools Grapple With Big Budget Cuts

School funding in Texas is in turmoil. State lawmakers slashed more than $4 billion from education this school year — one of the largest cuts in state history — and more than 12,000 teachers and support staff have been laid off. Academic programs and transportation have been cut to the bone. Promising reforms are on [...]

Tintin’s ‘Adventures’ Take Him To Hollywood

Tintin — star of a series of vintage Belgian comics that have sold hundreds of millions of copies in dozens of languages — is a crime-fighting boy journalist who specializes in solving riddles with the assistance of his intrepid dog, Snowy. Now, in The Adventures of Tintin, he’s come to the big screen, in a [...]

Ditch This Massager, If It Shows Up Under The Christmas Tree

The ShoulderFlex massager looks harmless enough. But don’t be fooled. The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to use the product because it could kill or injure them. There were reports of one person being strangled by the device and another near-death by strangulation, the FDA says. Clothing, hair and jewelry can get [...]

Mitt Romney Shows Newt Gingrich Downside Of High Road

Newt Gingrich is being reminded that staying on the high road has a substantial downside during a presidential campaign. Trying to recast himself as a sunny optimist, just like his hero Ronald Reagan (and to leave behind his reputation as a master of political hardball), the former speaker has vowed to run a positive campaign, [...]