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Some folks take advantage of mail-in voting. Those of us who cast ballots during the early voting period or who are voting today can reinforce what everybody but infantile sore losers already know. The American voting system is in
Read moreUnlike us, insects detect ultraviolet light rays. Hawks’ eyesight far exceeds ours. Bears can smell us from afar. We create reality. Some people delude themselves by choosing their illusions. The concerted Republican effort to demonize minorities and the
Read moreJohn D. MacDonald’s savage salvager Travis McGee once observed: “Reality is a curious convention. It is the special norm for each of us. Based upon the evidence of our own senses, we have established our own version of reality.”
Read moreDonald Trump stacked the Supreme Court that relegated American women to second-class citizenship, the Supreme Court that put the health of individual American women at the whim of medically-ignorant politicians – at the whim of politicians and politicizing police
Read moreDo not fault Oklahoma State Supt. Ryan Walters’s competence. His past disservice as the governor’s education czar and his campaign for office told us that his goal was to destroy public education in Oklahoma. With the state ranked
Read moreOn Sept. 23, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research issued a 2024 Planetary Health Check that said, “Six out of the nine Planetary Boundary processes have breached their PBs, meaning that the values of the corresponding control variables
Read moreFollowing his Sept. 5 Q&A session at the New York Economic Club, The New York Times headline claimed that Republican presidential candidate “(Donald) Trump Praises Tariffs, and William McKinley, to Power Brokers.” The subhead continued: “In an address about the kind
Read moreAmerica is not an establishment. It is not even a government of a constitution. It is a process. To remain silent in the face of policies that one believes to be hurting the nation is not patriotism, but moral cowardice.
Read moreSometime news breaks so fast that a columnist can’t keep up with the surge. As editor of the Borger News-Herald in the late nineties, I could slip in three bits of wisdom of week – and throw in an
Read moreRelentlessly threatening the first ever 50-50 season of 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases, Dodgers megastar Shohei Ohtani strides to the plate to the tune of “The Show Goes On” by Lupe Fiasco. Sadly, following the Ken
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