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The GOP war on the health of Americans rages on while Republican rhetoric glosses over the realities. The latest case in point comes from 4th District Congressman Tom Cole, who wrote recently of President Trump’s commitment to “protecting and providing quality
Read moreAs sure as an election approaches, you can count on Republicans to trot out meaningless issues to try to excite their base. At the State House, GOPers propose a steady stream of unconstitutional anti-choice laws – without promising to commit
Read moreThe Republican-dominated Oklahoma House of Representatives re-asserted the GOP position of the inferiority of women last week when it passed a bill that would revoke the license of any doctor performing an abortion. This “first meaningful action of the 2020
Read moreOklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt affirmed his loyalties to GOP hate-the-poor policies last week by attending a Washington, D.C., dog and pony show with the president to back a plan to endanger the most vulnerable – and least powerful – people
Read moreI interrupt my discourse on the unity of the human race and the political tolerance that should be its natural result to discuss one of the most embarrassing moments in American presidential history. No, I’m not referring to the massive
Read moreNinety years ago, when he called for a New World Order based on the economic interdependence of the world, Will Durant allowed for two options: “We must choose between a Pax Romana and a Balkanized world.” Durant’s choice of “Balkanized
Read moreThe confluence of xenophobic nationalists and climate change deniers threatens the existence of modern civilization, either through continuing the age-old pattern of fruitless wars with ever-more-powerful weaponry or the degradation of the environment past maintaining a decent quality of life.
Read moreThe illogic of continued resource extraction has finally caught on with reasonable people, but it still faces opposition from folks who resist any change on the principle of refusing to think and that worse lot who don’t care about environmental
Read moreMy day in my office starts with a quick check of the weather forecast, a slide to the right to check my e-mail and then a stop at the Astronomy Picture of the day. I must confess that I appreciate
Read moreTwo weeks back, just after I wrapped up a column about the president’s toxic rhetoric, he spewed more of the same. This time he was telling a pro-Israel conference, populated predominately by Jewish voters, that they might not like him,
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