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Second Amendment sanctuary (SAS), also known as a gun sanctuary, is a state, county or locality in the United States that has adopted laws or resolutions that oppose, or purport to prohibit or impede, the enforcement of certain gun control
Read moreAs I write, Senate Bill 2 is on the governor’s desk. It would ban transgender athletes from participating in sports in Oklahoma at any level. It was introduced in the Senate by local Sen. Toni Hasenback. One of
Read moreI got up early last week to watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars. A mere 184.46 million miles away, Ingenuity sat on the Martian surface awaiting commands from the control room full of bright young faces at the
Read moreClassical Greeks and Romans once had a wonder plant called silphium, so revered that it appeared on coinage. In 2017, Zaria Gorvett listed some of its uses for the BBC: “Its crunchable stalks were roasted, sautéed or boiled and eaten
Read moreI don’t remember electing Joe Manchin to run this country. He is a senator from West Virginia, not the president. Last month, the real President Joe Biden introduced a $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan. Republicans had spouted about the need for
Read moreIn the great GOPQ tradition of attacking non-existent problems in order to stigmatize minorities and encourage bigotry, the (not-so-)OK House is pushing the Save Women’s Sports Act, which would ban transgender students from participating in girls/women’s sports from kindergarten (got
Read moreApril 1: Opening Day. The high holy day on my calendar. This is a political journal? Well, baseball politics often out-stinks that of a governmental ilk. Talking about the Baseball Hall of Fame, of course, which sometimes seems to exist
Read moreCurrent Postmaster General Louis Dejoy was appointed by the last president with the goal of wrecking Ben Franklin’s wonderful idea that the government is responsible for maintaining communications among USAnians. Dejoy’s joyless “plan” is to slow mail delivery, cut post
Read moreLast week, while organizing my bookmark file for Catalan singer/songwriter Judit Neddermann, my mouse hand got ahead of my mind and deleted the entire file. Sunday morning seemed a good time to rectify the situation. During my listening, I lit
Read moreLast week bills were introduced in both house of Congress to facilitate statehood for the 3,194,000 American citizens of Puerto Rico. There are local steps to follow along the way, including a binding vote, but last November voters approved a
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