Oklahomans for Individual Rights

04/16/2022

For all the concern over “misinformation” in the public sphere, one of the greatest crises of public deception in America is going almost completely unchecked. State and local elected officials, ag…

03/17/2022

03/14/2022

America is a nation of entrepreneurs, and many of those entrepreneurs run their businesses from home. To better understand how and why entrepreneurs start at home, the Institute for Justice surveyed 1,902 home-based business owners between November 2020 and March 2021, a time when the COVID-19 pande...

03/05/2022

In recent decades, states have enacted occupational licensing laws covering a growing number of jobs, and now more American workers than ever must get a license to work. But do we need these new licenses? Independent government reports, known as “sunrise” reviews, suggest the answer is often no....

02/08/2022

Multiple bills have been filed to reform Oklahoma's medical ma*****na industry prior to the session's start on Monday.

01/31/2022

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01/31/2022

A government that's too protective stifles innovation and productivity, when mostly it should just get out of the way.

01/27/2022

Conservatives complain about “over-regulation,” but all governmental regulation—regulation as such—is destructive and evil. Ayn Rand wrote that the premise o...

11/23/2021

This 1967 lecture is Ayn Rand’s flagship talk on capitalism. In it she explains in depth what capitalism is, why it is often misunderstood and why it is the only social system consonant with man’s nature. She discusses the philosophical and ethical roots of capitalism, and contrasts them with th...

11/16/2021

THANK YOU to the Oklahomans who are standing up for the rights of private business owners to make their own decisions about how to run their own businesses.

SHAME on the Oklahomans calling for government to violate those rights!

"Gov. Kevin Stitt previously has said he will not tell companies how to operate in regard to vaccine requirements. Other Republican lawmakers that believe in limited government intervention at private businesses have echoed similar sentiments."

Hundreds of rallygoers turned out to the Oklahoma state Capitol on the first day of the Oklahoma Legislature's special session on redistricting.

11/14/2021

Why make home construction cost more for everybody? Why not simply leave those who wish to pursue more energy-efficient construction free to do so as individuals?

Revising Oklahoma's version of the International Building Code advanced until the commission doing it got to green building and energy conservation.

10/29/2021

Education consists mostly in speech, and parents have a right under the First Amendment to exercise authority over what their children hear.