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Tuesday, October 12th, 2021Every time we turn around Fox News and the rest of the professional conservatives cry like babies about scary socialism. It doesn’t take much education to know they haven’t a clue what socialism is. They simply want to scare and paralyze American. In the early 1900s apartment and factory fires killed thousands. As a society […]
Learn, Not Repeat, is the Goal
Thursday, September 30th, 2021A dedicated group of volunteers are trying to teach their neighbors the history of Grayson County Texas. Grayson County has a chance to learn from its mistakes. Melissa Thiel is leading the effort and has rallied local business owners and clergy. They want the following statement on a marker in front of the Courthouse. […]
States’ Rights Deception
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021Big Government conservatives like to hide behind the slogan States’ Rights. They want you to believe they are standing up for you against the mean federal government. They have relied on this deception since the beginning of the Republic. Southern planters knew America’s revolutionary rhetoric threatened their vast wealth and power. The Declaration of Independence […]
Cruelty is a Feature, Not an Accident
Thursday, September 16th, 2021The terrorist attacks on 9/11 ignited the rise of Big Government Conservatism. Just a few months before, George W. Bush had won a razor thin election by presenting himself as a compassionate conservative. Within days of the September attacks his mask fell off. Bush started to channel the blood lust rising in conservative circles. I […]
Yes, I’m a Feminist
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. […]
The Best Hope for Peace
Thursday, August 19th, 2021I was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in a United States military hospital. My dad proudly served in the US Army for 27 years. He was there to defend against a Soviet invasion. The US Army first arrived in Europe during World War Two (1939-1945). It was part of an Allied Coalition that defeated the NAZIs. […]
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 […]
Voting Preserves Our Republic
Thursday, July 15th, 2021Voting is the life blood of a democracy. Votes express the will of the many to direct the actions of the few. Voting preserves our Republic. Restricting voting kills democracy. Americans have struggled over the last 232 years to expand voting. In the beginning, woman couldn’t vote. Slaves couldn’t vote. Men without property couldn’t vote. […]
Limited Government and Accountability
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021The contrast between United States Constitutional Law and Biblical Law are striking. The US Constitution places limits on government. The Bible grants absolute power to kings and fathers. Let’s look, for example, at one of the most famous stories in the Bible. The Bible tells this story to illustrate the wisdom of Solomon. We, however, […]
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 […]
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