Your Thursday Oklahoma (on Friday)

Courtesy of Esquire's Charles P. Pierce with help from yours truly

Big damn thanks as always to good friend Charles P. Pierce of Esquire for the shoutout and for reminding us, if such reminders were necessary, that in Oklahoma, we want your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your wretched refuse of your teeming shore, your homeless, and your tempest-tost. We will lift our lamp beside our golden door . . . but just in the major cities and only if you keep these dregs the proper distance away from our god-fearing young’uns.

And we conclude, as is our custom, in the great state of Oklahoma, whence Blog Official Expatriate Patriot Friedman of the Algarve brings us a tale of a similar crisis that seems to be roiling up Sooner State politics. From The Frontier: