Published Monday, March 16, 2026 | | SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. | | | SAVE THE DATE: NEXT WEEK WEDNESDAY MARCH 25 NOON OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER | | WE WILL SELECT LEGISLATORS FROM THE HOUSE & SENATE TO DISCUSS THE STATE OF LAW MAKING IN THE 2026 SESSION | | ST PATRICK SHAPES WORLD HISTORY | | The OCPAC Foundation made front page news yesterday in the Oklahoman as did OCPAC Foundation’s board member, Senator Shane Jett, who was the central figure in the story. The article became my introduction to St. Patrick who has center stage the world over this week.
Read The Oklahoman story here. | | At the heart of matter, according to the article, is the great progress which has been made by Oklahoma conservatives in electing those who want to govern by the same conservative and Christian values they espoused to the voters when on the campaign trail.
Currently, Democrats are getting more bills heard in the state legislature than are conservative Republicans and this is especially true for those who have publicly announced their membership in the Freedom Caucus. | | Bills from legislative conservatives are routinely ignored by “leadership.” Yet, and for reasons I find bizarre, Senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton decided to make a public fuss of his objection to Senator Shane Jett’s legislation asking for enforcement of the “no drunks on the Senate floor” rule.
In yesterday’s article, Senate Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton indicated he represented the Reagan side of the GOP Party. Lonnie’s comment immediately brought to mind a Vice-Presidential debate and Democrat Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s well-timed response to a youthful Dan Quail’s ill-advised effort to compare himself with Jack Kennedy, an American icon. On the national stage in 1988, the Senator smiled, chuckled, shook his head, and laughingly said, “I knew Jack Kennedy and you are no Jack Kennedy.”
My appreciation for Ronald Reagan is profound and has endured now for more than half a century. Reagan's Brandenburg Gate Speech stands as only a sample of his fierce leadership and hatred of power-hungry small-minded tyrants. Contrary to his claim in this weekend’s Oklahoman article, Lonnie Paxton is no Ronald Reagan. | | I found the Oklahoman article to be well written and accurate in its explanation of the facts but disappointing in its lack of comprehension of the overwhelming breadth of societal culture, its all-encompassing nature, and government’s dependency on the moral and spiritual qualities of its citizens who must be weighed and not merely counted.
At no point in history was all of this more clearly developed than the opening of the fifth Century which was marked by the complete absence (by A.D. 410) of the presence of members of the Roman garrison as guardians of their massive 2,000 miles of roads paved throughout Great Britain. | | This was, for the Barbarians in Ireland, a red-carpet welcome for them to expand their slave acquisition business to the highways and byways of England. No tribe was more fierce than the Irish.
Even the Roman soldiers, when they first encountered the Irish, were left shocked and frightened by hordes of howling, insane warriors seemingly possessed by demons.
This fierceness, combined with cunning and orchestrated assaults, was the operating engine of one of the most comprehensive and aggressive slave harvests in the history of mankind.
In his book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Dr. Thomas Cahill describes their cunning:
They were excellent sailors. Just before dawn, a small war party would move its stealthy oval coracles into a little cove, approach an isolated farmhouse with silent strides, grab some sleeping children, and be halfway back to Ireland before anyone knew what had happened. | | It was in AD. 401 that, according to the testimony of then 16-year-old Patricius, that he, the yet-to be St. Patrick, was captured. According to many eyewitnesses, he was captured with “many thousands” of other youth and taken to the slave markets in Ireland.
Providence orchestrated his escape from Ireland in A.D. 407. Then, in 432, at forty-seven years of age, this slave-turned-Christian heard the call of divinity and a mission to return to perhaps the most wicked, barbarous, Godless people on earth and introduce them to the Bible, to Christ, to books, and to Christ-glorifying civilization.
Quoting again from Dr. Thomas Cahill:
This thirty-year span of Patrick’s mission in the middle of the fifth century encompasses a period of change so rapid and extreme that Europe will never see it’s like again.
The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957, p. 6142) stated of Saint Patrick:
He found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian.
Ireland would soon see tens of thousands of converts, the establishment of hundreds of churches, but would also become a point of destination for students from Ireland, England, and Europe. | | Among them was Ireland’s King Loegaire (King Leary). With his conversion came the replacement of pagan Druid laws with Bible-based law.
Leslie Hardinge’s 1995 book, The Celtic Church in Britain, tells us that:
Wherever Patrick went and established a church, he left an old Celtic law book, Liber ex Lege Moisi (Book of the Law of Moses) along with the books of the Gospel.
This became called the "Senchus Mor" or "Code of Patrick."
Bill Federer writes that:
The Code of Patrick was taken by missionaries to Britain where it laid the foundation for English Common Law, later codified by Alfred the Great (847-899). Alfred’s legal code was derived from Mosaic Law and Jesus’ golden rule. King Alfred’s civil laws became the root of all English and American common law, trial by jury, and habeas corpus. As American law is based on English Common Law, one is struck with the thought that Saint Patrick may have even influenced the legal system in the United States.
Find Mr. Federer's full article here. | | Thomas Jefferson recognized the importance of these Biblical foundations and said that Anglo-Saxon laws represent “…the sources of the Common Law … the wisest and most perfect ever yet devised before the 8th century.”
In 1776, Thomas Jefferson was commissioned to a three-man team to develop the American National Seal. He wanted reference to Anglo-Saxon law printed on one side and advocated for Biblical imagery on the other, specifying, in his own words, “the children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by the night.” | | Because St. Patrick brought the Law of Moses to the throne room of nations, Russell Kirk was able to write in his book The Roots of American Order the following statement:
“The other creeds of the ancient world are dust and ashes now, but the Decalogue of Moses and the understanding of man’s existence under God which Moses communicated to the people remain a living power, the source of order.
“Sinai would become the foundation of the moral order called Christianity. Some twenty-nine centuries after Moses heard the voice from the burning bush, a smaller band of wanderer would embark upon another Exodus. The people of this later exodus were the Puritans. It is the Law made known through Moses that has survived, and which still works upon the society in which we live.” | | The problem with our common ordinary American politician is that they are a reflection of a watered-down church and an educational system no longer touting our Christian foundations but are instead questioning the integrity of our founders and founding institutions.
We need articulate statesmen and those possessing an unrelenting depth of character who refuse to make a public scene because someone wishes to curtail drunkenness on the Senate floor.
Men who spend more time reading those who have laid the foundations of thought which have brought us through six millennia rather than listening to the promises of lobbyists offering short-term gains for short-sighted people.
For more on St. Patrick, read my article in the March 20, 2023 edition of the OCPAC Foundation Newsletter here.
For a continuation of that 2023 article, see my March 18, 2024 article here. | | DR. EVERETT PIPER Sunday, March 15, 2026
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DEFENDING JOHN FETTERMAN AGAINST “HORSESHOE RIGHT” STUPIDITY | | One of the unexpected voices of reason coming from our nation’s capital in recent days is that of Senator John Fetterman.
Here are just a few of the comments he has made over the past couple of weeks in response to his own party’s refusal to officially label Iran a state sponsor of terror, whose expressed goal is the “death of Israel” and the death of the United States of America. | | FETTERMAN'S RECENT COMMENTS TO HIS OWN DEMOCRAT PARTY
I can’t imagine why you can’t just identify what Iran is. Why isn’t it a good thing to make it impossible for Iran to acquire and use nuclear bombs? I’d like to remind my colleagues over in the house that Iran massacred 30,000 of its own citizens. | | AND HE MADE ONE MORE POINT . . .
We should choose our country over our party.
I posted Senator Fetterman’s comments this past week on my Facebook page, and one of my “friends” responded as follows: “Senator Fetterman’s arguments are foolish. America presently murders over 1 million preborn babies per year, yet Fetterman and the Republicans are focused on the wickedness of another nation. Who’s evil? We are worse than Iran.”
My friend then went on to summarize: “Using arguments like Fetterman’s to justify going to war against a wicked regime on behalf of a wicked regime is the equivalent of you beating your wife and then beating up your neighbor for beating his wife. Clean up your own house!!” | | My Facebook pal is right about one thing — Some arguments are foolish, and his are foremost among them. This kind of smug virtue signaling, especially from “conservatives,” is historically ignorant and morally vacuous, and it totally ignores the practical benefits of incrementalism and the fact that such “all or nothing” strategies often result in nothing for the untold millions who thereby suffer because of the inaction of those who elevate their idealism above reality.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES TO MAKE MY POINT:
Would folks such as my Facebook pen pal argue that the North should have done nothing during the Civil War to fight against the chattel slavery practiced by the South, because it (the North) still had its own sins of unjust labor practices? | | Should the United States have done nothing during World War II to end the Nazi holocaust because we (Americans) were still guilty of our own cultural racism? And how about the Crusades? Was Rome wrong to stop Islam’s butchery of over 280 million people across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe because it (the Church) still had sinners in its own ranks? | | Horseshoe-Right proponents, such as my Facebook pal, zero in on America’s immorality to argue that until we “clean up our own house,” we have no moral basis to do anything that is moral.
This logic (or lack thereof) is broken and dangerous. Yes, millions of babies are dying because of abortion, and untold numbers of women are presently abused both at home and abroad, but the solution is not sanctimonious isolationism and false moral equivalencies.
Even if some American men beat their wives and some American women abort their children, that does not mean America has no moral authority to stop as many children from being killed and wives from being beaten as it can. Arguing otherwise is frankly just weird, and it completely ignores the fact that such self-flagellation only results in more wife beating and more dead children, not less. People like this need to read up on Augustinian Just War Theory a bit and learn why Christians have rightly embraced it for over fifteen hundred years.
If moral purity is a prerequisite for a nation acting morally, then we’d all have to just sit on our hands and let the world burn. | | Yes, some arguments are foolish, and those coming from some “conservatives” like my Facebook friend are dumber than those coming from the left of the aisle.
Even John Fetterman understands that we all live in a broken world, and that this “all-or-nothing/either-or-attitude” is naive at best and complicit with evil in its extreme.
Even he knows that America is not “worse than Iran” and that it is just nutty to claim otherwise. | | Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
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Follow Dr. Everett Piper weekly in The Washington Times here | | SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. | | MARCH 11, 2026 MEETING: JOURNALIST KATY SMITH | | Journalist and popular speaker, Katy Smith presented stunning numbers regarding the state of education & administration in Oklahoma.
Watch Katy's presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
__________ | | TW SHANNON CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | | Former Oklahoma Speaker of the House, TW Shannon, speaks with clarity about how culture and society works as he spoke about Capitalism, the Constitution, and Christianity, the core of American success.
Watch TW's presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here.
_________ | | NATHAN DAHM Former Senator and current Executive Director of Oklahoma's Freedom Caucus. | | Nathan Dahm provided a preview of some of the topics we'll hear discussed by a legislative panel when we reconvene after St. Patrick's Day break* (AKA Spring Break).
Watch them speak here.
Watch the full meeting here.
* St. Patrick's Day Break is a term Bob made up. He also prefers it. _________ | | SENATOR SHANE JETT Presides Over Meeting | | Watch the full meeting here.
_________ | | BOB LINN President of the OCPAC FOUNDATION | | Bob spoke about the Christian foundation St. Patrick established not only in Ireland but in England and the entire West. Thanks to Patrick, the Law of God, written through Moses, became the foundation for nations extending to our own shores as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin sought to make the crossing of the Red Sea of the People of God under the leadership of Moses our national seal!
Watch the full meeting here. | | NOTES FROM TWO WEEKS AGO: TEENPACT | | NOTES FROM THREE WEEKS AGO: THIRTY YOUTH Home Schoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma TPUSA Students | | Grace Reformed Baptist Church Homeschoolers from Elgin, Oklahoma led the Pledge of Allegiance | | KENDRA WESSON JOINS RYAN WALTERS AND TEACHER FREEDOM ALLIANCE | | Kendra Wesson is stepping aside from other responsibilities to work full time with Ryan Walters and the Teacher Freedom Alliance (TFA) with a goal of providing teachers a pro-America Christian environment within which to work.
Thus far, the effort has been massively successful as thousands of teachers are fleeing the pro-Marxist teacher unions including the National Teachers Association (NEA).
Watch Kendra's Announcement here.
Watch the full meeting here.
News media was there to cover the TFA announcement. | | DECEMBER 3 MEETING: SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett | | Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here.
Note:
Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks.
Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark. Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark.
Watch the full meeting here.
| | LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION GABE WOOLEY | | GABE WOOLEY here
Full Meeting here | | WES LANE, PRESIDENT SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING SALLT | | Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness.
Watch Wes Lane's presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here. | | We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. She opened the meeting by leading us in "O Come All Ye Faithful" and brought tears to our eyes as she followed Wes Lane singing "O Holy Night."
Watch the presentation here.
Watch the full meeting here. | | TPUSA Students were in attendance Supporting Samantha | | SHANE JETT MESSAGE TO POLITICAL CLASS | | Senator Shane Jett here
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Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. | | We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.
Thank you for your activism. | | | | |
