Amazing article written by you, who happen to be an injury lawyer, who forgot to list greedy lawyers and individuals alongside insurance companies and politicians. And you have the nerve to invoke the Bible alongside a list of random villains (corporations, banking interests, Big Oil, etc.) that just happen to employ more people and create more value than all the lawyers in Oklahoma. I can't decide if this is a parody or pathetic. What a demagogue!

Thats a great article Mr. Thurman. It shows the effects of these caps on average Oklahomans. I've seen your posts on here before and they do speak to the fact that tort reform is not conservative.

@Jerry

You are absolutely correct that tort reform (as it's currently marketed by people like the Chamber of Commerce) is not in line with conservative ideals, and that it creates more absurd regulation and government meddling that these same "pro-busines" whiners are constantly complaining about. They love the free market when it lines their silk pockets, but it can't be abided when they do wrong.

I say this assuming that the "good" created by free market fundamentals and democracy are still "good conservative ideals" - they may have officially been dumped for corporate welfar and socialism for the aristocracy last quarter.

@Bruce

What is a more democratic way to get at the truth and apply justice than a jury trial?

Don't think juries represent "you" because they are made up of unemployed, angry, uneducated poor people? That is hogwash, but if you believe it, tell your so-important-profession-having family and friends to stop trying to get out of jury duty. It's their civic responsibility, and theyprobably get PTO for it. Go get paid to learn something about the system you love to blame for all your ills.

Where (aside from Sunday's game) can you find a better exhibition of healthy competition and fair play than in a courtroom, with each side having their equal say, represented by the best attorneys their money can buy?

Actually, given that plaintiff's attorneys are usually putting up their own money, while defense lawyers are punching a clock for some corporation like Merck, business probably has the financial upper hand in the courtroom - but our tort system is a good system worth preserving, understanding, and improving (yes, there is room for improvement).

I am so sick and tired of all these whining, "free market," "fiscally conservative," "family values" hippocrite poseurs who don't have a clue what they are talking about or what they really believe in, and lost their remote when the TV got stuck on "Oh' Rile-ye." It seems that too many of us skipped Econ 101 to go to a mixer or sleep in from the previous night's keg stands (myself included).

The rich "conservatives" that you so admire are sitting on top the world are doubled over laughing at you as they go begging to your government for billions of your bailout money (to spend on Super Bowl parties, stadium naming rights, hunting trips, lavish getaways, facials, manicures, private jets, oh, and seven figure bonuses).

Don't take my word for it. Google "Jim Rogers on socialism" - here's one guy in the financial industry who is telling the truth about where this country is headed. And it just doesn't seem like it was all the "frivolous" med mal (etc.) lawsuits that have bankrupted AIG and the rest of this country.

EOM