The Trent England Show

The perfect union racket? Plus prisons at the breaking point and updates on the opioid shakedown and NPV.

Beto trashes the Electoral College, fake hate crimes, and the pharma shakedown

Fun with leftist hypocrisy, and fixing Oklahoma's tax system

Moving out of Oklahoma? Plus Biden, budgets and big fraud allegations

Can they trump Trump by overturning the Electoral College?

Opioid shakedown, Boren exposed and micromanaging schools | The Trent England Show Ep. 124 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

All collusion, all the time! | The Trent England Show Ep. 123 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Is it Trump, or reporters? Who's the real threat to journalism?

Fixing what's broken in Oklahoma government, plus higher ed scam exposed by cheating scandal

What is “National Popular Vote,” which states are pushing it, and what can you do to stop it?

Trent gives an update on the good news coming out of Oklahoma's legislature.

Trent has a rundown of some key education and criminal justice bills awaiting action at the Oklahoma legislature this week, plus a note on the outdated way we pair kids up with schools.

Trump attracts a field of opponents, politicians still believe “you didn’t build that,” and the Oklahoma legislature starts hitting cutoff dates—what bills are still alive?

School boundary disputes are so 20th century

Nurses, doctors, dentists, politicians—Trent has something to say about all of them, plus mentions of David Boren and Illinois’ new minimum wage hike.

Trump and "the Russians"? 30,000 teachers? So much media bias and partisan spin!

More bogus budgeting exposed by Stitt, Gallogly | The Trent England Show Ep. 113 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Trump reaction bests Obama | The Trent England Show Ep. 112 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

What was in Gov. Stitt’s budget proposal and State of the State? Trent has the highlights, plus some lowlights from other states.

Big hospital corporations are back pushing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma. No surprise—Medicaid has mixed results for recipients, but is always a winner for health care executives. Plus, Trent makes a prediction about whether we’ll see a 2019 school shutdown.

Trent's back from New Hampshire with an Electoral College update and a wrap up from the Ethics Commission

Just back from Denver, Trent explains the attack going on against the Electoral College, plus media and campus craziness.

OU President Jim Gallogly continues leading the struggle against the Leftist Empire in higher education, cutting wasteful programs and firing a dean. Meanwhile, on the troubled planet that is Oklahoma City Public Schools, the new superintendent prepares to roll out a plan to close schools in order to better serve students.

A proposed internet regulation could blank out your search results, and a plastic bag regulation has led to more plastic waste. Plus one more good bill for the week, and an idea: why not let top students achieve their best?

It’s bill filing week in the legislature, so Trent does a round of “good bills, bad bills,” then shares a policy experiment from India that some people want to bring here.

What program costs half a trillion dollars per year, and may not even work? Plus, people vote with their feet, and their money follows—so what can we learn from 24 years of IRS data?

We were told it’s impossible, but OU faculty are getting a raise while tuition has stayed flat. Maybe what David Boren told us wasn’t … accurate? And the Electoral College is the last remaining pillar of federalism, so no wonder it’s under attack across the country. Meanwhile, some of the highest paid teachers in the country are still on strike today.

Teachers strike, inauguration day and an Ethics Commission update | The Trent England Show Ep. 102 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Trent gives a quick update before heading out to testify against speech regulations before the Oklahoma Ethics Commission

Pres. Trump and the "crisis" war, and an Ethics Commission update

Border walls, shutdowns, speech police, and effective oversight | The Trent England Show Ep. 98 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Will you be put on this government list? And what should be Gov. Stitt's first order of business?

The Electoral College is under attack; Trent explains why it’s worth keeping around.

Can we be reasonable anymore? Trent has three questions about the accusation against Justice-nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

OCPA experts present at an Americans for Prosperity - Oklahoma lunch on state tax and spending trends and the outlook for 2019.

The near assassination of a presidential candidate in Brazil gets Trent thinking about the kind of political rhetoric that leads to violence. Which U.S. Senator went down that road at the Kavanaugh hearings? Plus Trent lays out the schedule for Kavanaugh’s confirmation and has some new Senate polls.

Trent gives his impressions from the first hours of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, plus stories about failed cronyism and socialists who attack Uber in public and ride Uber in private.

Updates on Oklahoma’s latest scandal, Trump’s trade bailout, and the Oklahoma Education Association’s mothership just endorsed an agenda more radical than Bernie Sanders!

The Pharmacy Board executive director tried to bribe the Board of Health attorney to write marijuana rules to give pharmacists get a cut of the green. Wait, isn’t the Pharmacy Board supposed to regulate pharmacists? Isn’t the Board of Health supposed to implement the law, not change or sabotage it? Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely, as Lord Acton said, and that applies in small administrative fiefdoms just as it does in vast kingdoms. Trent also has some bad news about socialist medicine and an important story about China’s soft power fumble.

Trent talks with NonDoc’s Tres Savage about breaking the story of possible bribery in the writing of medical marijuana rules.

OCPA had raised questions about David Boren’s hiring practices and spending for years—now it’s getting exposed. But where is the press? Plus Facebook trickery, socialized medicine gets a big negligence bill, and why Bernie Sanders may not be the future after all.

Trent walks through the process, and his prediction, for the Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He also explains why the shift could go far deeper than a few hot-button issues.

Americans give away more money than most countries produce—across their entire economies—every year. Plus, could you pick God out of a lineup? Trent highlights the dumbest “study” of the week (and it’s only Monday!).

Sales tax revenues are way up, boosting Oklahoma’s cities, and the Supreme Court upholds a common-sense election integrity law in Ohio.

Poll: Voters want more from education | The Trent England Show Ep. 82 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

The politicians want to pick winners and losers, but they pick so many losers. It turns out Oklahoma’s cash subsidy to filmmakers not only went to Harvey Weinstein, but to an OU professor now accused of harassing women on the set.

Dumb Things Leftists Say | The Trent England Show Ep. 80 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

The New Yorker’s Rivka Galchen pens a hit piece on Oklahoma, but it’s full of errors and omissions. Plus, what will we do without California bureaucrats? And Trent breaks down today’s Supreme Court decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.

It’s relatively affordable, widely available, and heavily subsidized, but still Oklahomans graduate from college at lower rates than people in most other states. Why is that? Plus hackable trackable license plates, left-wing luxury, artsy whining, and happy dolphins!

The Oklahoman exposes the bogus budget: “The investigative audit report on the Health Department shows how [claims government has been ‘cut to the bone’ can rely on rhetorical sleight-of-hand.”

Illegal but not Criminal? | The Trent England Show Ep. 76 by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs