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What did the election reveal? • Oklahoma is only the second reddest state in the union. That’s a drop from 2016 when we edged Idaho for the top spot. Every county in Oklahoma and West Virginia voted for Donald Trump,
Read moreIn a pivotal scene in Tombstone, one of the best westerns ever made, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holliday for a character assessment of Johnny Ringo, their main nemesis. Wyatt: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things
Read moreThose of us who haven’t voted by mail will either early vote Thursday through Saturday or a week from today. At the top of the ticket, we have the choice of Joe Biden’s moderation or Donald Trump’s crony capitalism and
Read moreWhile Catalan writer Adam Majó lists three dominant features of fascism – hierarchies, violence and populism, American political scientist Lawrence Britt has gained a bit of notoriety for an article in the 2003 Spring Issue of Free Inquiry, where he detailed
Read moreIt bears remembering as you head to the polls this year that Republican policies benefit only the richest among us. After orchestrating a tax cut for the rich, the president’s willful neglect has pushed our COVID-19 death toll to world-leading
Read moreIn For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway’s hero Robert Jordan is talking politics with one of the partisans he has enlisted to help him dynamite a bridge in order to stymie fascist troop movements during an impending Republican offensive. Discussing the
Read moreAn Absolutely Brilliant Plan for the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Nominee Hearings There is no realistic way to block Barrett’s joining the Court. It would likely be a waste of time that would only make the Democrats look contentious
Read moreThere are about 7.8 billion people in the world. Of that total, 331 million live in the United States. We represent about 4.2 percent of the total world population. Yet, at the time the world COVID-19 death toll surpassed one
Read moreHollow words and campaign lies do not a health care plan comprise. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, a tepid attempt to make health care affordable to most people in the most
Read moreZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, made him famous, but Robert Pirsig’s second book, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, provides the framework to describe the country’s current civil unrest. Pirsig constructs an evolutionary scale of conflicting values within the world. He
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