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Climate-Change-Denier-in-Chief Donald Trump – who Friday extended federal flood insurance plans to cover his low-lying, forced-to-evacuate Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and who wanted a sea wall to protect Irish properties threatened by rising global oceans – has chosen another apostle
Read moreTwo minutes of the crowd’s “Wows” and lingering, echoed awe. Who would believe a black sun if not witnessed in person? You can make it what you will – from fantasy to science – but you can’t dim our wonder.
Read moreHow can we discuss any other subject when faced with the absurdity that our President is a Nazi sympathizer? Those supporting him today – vocally or silently – share his shame. Donald Trump’s personal racism has been tracked since the
Read moreI ventured over to Lawton last week to watch Comanche County Democrats organize a Social Justice Caucus in order to provide a forum and a voice for those people who never seem to enjoy the same basic rights as the
Read moreLast week, Bill Browder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The more publicized news concerned new-and-now-no–more White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci’s profanity-laced interview with The New Yorker, which purged the Administration of its last half-ounce of decency – and
Read moreThe Borger Post Office came to mind recently. I spent two years in Borger, Texas, in the late nineties. It was a good time: lots of good work, some successes. After spending 19 years among the East Texas pines, the expanded
Read moreWhen in the course of human events political activists don’t recognize the opening challenge in The Declaration of Independence, we might conclude that anti-education Republicans are succeeding in creating an electorate ignorant enough to swallow their bilge. Last week, National
Read moreThere are people in the world who hate the United States. Our shining beacon of open, representative government has proven the fallacy of autocracies of every stripe. Russian Vladimir Putin hates Americans for exercising the freedoms that he denies his
Read moreWholly Holy Hobby Lobby – taking its demand to impose its beliefs upon its employees all the way to the Supreme Court — paid for full-page ads in the Independence Day editions of the OKC and Lawton papers touting its
Read moreLet’s start with the good news. During one of his continuing campaign rallies in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Trump announced that he wanted only rich people to run our economy. Not that he wanted successful people, but rich people –
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