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With what little money they managed to raise, opponents crafted an ad to air during the Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. Because it featured a swastika, TV stations refused to let it run, thereby adding censorship to the list of legal discriminations gays in Nebraska share with Jews (and gays) in Nazi Germany. The spot opened with the state's motto, "Equality before...
...Nineteen states and D.C. mandate that they vote in accordance with the popular vote, but there's no penalty if an elector fails to do so. Only five states have penalties for deviating from the popular vote. But in most of those states, the sanctions are relatively minor - in Oklahoma, for instance, it's a $1,000 fine. Of the states that are currently in some dispute, Florida, Iowa and New Hampshire don't try to bind their electors; Wisconsin, New Mexico and Oregon do. But it's worth noting that no elector has ever been prosecuted for being unfaithful...
What's scarier than the kid who wore a Scream mask to section on Halloween? Granted, not much. But accusations of witchcraft certainly rank up there. While such charges probably evoke images of seventeenth-century New England, incredibly, they persist even today. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit Oct. 26 against Tulsa school officials, claiming that they violated a 15 year-old student's civil rights when they suspended her in December 1999 for allegedly casting a spell on a teacher and making him sick...
...elections in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, while the Democrats countered with a pick-up in Oklahoma...
...Oklahoma referendum would let the state dip into the principal of its education trust fund to supplement the income generated by the fund...