Jul 02, 2005: EDMOND - Retired federal judge Charles Pickering Sr. will visit First Baptist Church of Edmond for a freedom celebration Sunday at 1300 SE 33.

One wonders if fireworks or other mischief causes one of the crosses to burn, if Judge Pickering will argue that the culprits deserve leniency because it was a "drunken prank."

A story in today's Oklahoman looked a bit funny from the first paragraph, so I started reading it, and it got even stranger. By the end of it, you're left thinking that some liberal Democrat has changed Oklahoma law to force judges to release dangerous mentally-ill criminal defendants over everyone's objections.

By leaving out anything that would say otherwise, that's apparently what the Oklahoman wants you to think. It's one of the paper's carefully-slanted stories that, unless you stop to think about it, serves little purpose other than to make Democrats look bad. More details inside.