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Friday, September 10th, 2021In 1862 the United Kingdom’s Parliament passed the first in a series of Contagious Disease Acts. The Members of Parliament considered sexually transmitted diseases a matter of national security. The MPs believed prostitutes spread the disease to the Armed Forces and weakened them. The Acts specifically targeted suspected prostitutes, not the soldiers, sailors, or marines. […]
Covid: Think Globally, Active Locally
Thursday, August 26th, 2021I don’t know about you, but I started off my summer with hope. Together—united as one nation–we had turned the corner on Covid 19. The experts were right. Masks and physical distancing saved lives and bought time for many of us to get vaccinated. In June, however, conservative politicians decided it was time to surrender. […]
Can you do a little?
Friday, August 13th, 2021First conservatives told us to sacrifice seniors. Now, they want us to sacrifice teachers and school children. Over 600,000 Americans have already died. Conservatives call this Pro Life. In March of 2020, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick objected to Covid 19 mitigation efforts. He said, “No one reached out to me and said, ‘As a […]
Seeds of Sedition
Thursday, July 29th, 2021The January 6 attack on American Democracy grew from seeds planted 40 years earlier. In the 1980s conservative activists created incendiary rhetoric to attack our government. Since the New Deal, conservatives had lost to a wave of progressive legislation. The Federal Government improved the lives of seniors with Social Security and Medicare. It improved the […]
Uncle Sam Needs You
Thursday, July 8th, 2021The World watched on January 6, 2021, as criminals swarmed the United States Capital. The thugs wanted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Most of us looked on in horror. Congress had gathered in a solemn, constitutional ceremony to count the Electoral College votes. Each state had certified the results. Courts from every corner […]
Opposite Day Shouldn’t Be Everyday
Thursday, May 13th, 2021Every once in a while, when they were young, my boys would play “Opposite Day” It was game about saying one thing, but meaning another. For example, if you want to someone to “stay,” you would say “go.” If you wanted the TV “on,” you would ask someone to turn it “off.” The game is […]
Broken Clock
Thursday, May 6th, 2021Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She is also the House Republican Conference Chair, third highest-ranking House Republican in the House of Representatives. Representative Cheney wants her fellow Republicans to stop lying about the 2020 Presidential election. On Monday, May 3, 2021, she wrote “The 2020 presidential election […]
Remodeling Our Home
Thursday, April 8th, 2021Not many things are more exciting, or frightening, than buying a new home. With it comes both freedom and responsibility. The owner has the freedom to change it at will but also must pay for the maintenance and repair. We’ve owned this particular house in Sherman for about twenty years. When we moved into it, […]
Original Intent to Suppress the Vote
Thursday, March 25th, 2021People who scream about the “original intent†of the Constitution too often don’t know the “original intentâ€. Or if they do understand the “original intentâ€, they want to use it to restrict their neighbors’ hard won freedoms. Voting rights clearly fall into the second category. The Constitution originally intended voting restrictions. States had the right […]
Tell The Truth
Thursday, January 14th, 2021Now is a moment for strength, not weakness. Strength requires facing the truth. As the Good Book says, “Thou shall not bear false witness.” On Jan. 6, domestic terrorists broke into the United States Capitol to stop the confirmation of the Electoral College vote. What we saw was disgusting. Not since the Civil War has […]
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