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From their embrace of minority voting restrictions, misogyny, racism and isolationism, one might think today’s GOPQ wanted a return to the 1950s. But, that Q element that they have added to their identity negates that idea. QAnon conspiracy
Read moreOn Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland – a member of Laguna Pueblo – ordered that the term “squaw” be removed from federal land designations. It should be pointed out that the term is a slur referring to female
Read moreBy Jim Holland The Red River is red and the Missouri River muddy. Why, you might ask? Well, it is by law: the second law of thermodynamics. That law states that the entropy (deterioration) of any isolated system always
Read more“Is this what you’ve been looking for?” And, with that, an East Texas good ol’ boy threw the last ivory-billed woodpecker that anyone ever saw alive onto Archer Fullingim’s desk in his newspaper office in Kountze, Texas, with
Read moreBy Jim Holland A Child Tax Credit increase is the brightest line item of President Biden’s legislative package that is to be enacted under the Budget Reconciliation rule. The Child Tax Credit is sometimes presented as a negative
Read moreBy Jim Holland A pharmacist here in town wrote letters to his state senator and state representative. He complained about a then new mandate—child-proof caps on drug containers. His phone rang. Both legislators began their call, “I feel like the boy
Read moreCall it a snowball effect, a dirty snowball effect to be more precise. The human-generated warming of Earth creates conditions that increase the degradation of our planet. At the first of October, Sci-Tech Daily reported, “Warming oceans cause fewer
Read moreThe 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off Sunday in Glasgow. Representatives from 200 countries will be “asked for their plans to cut emissions by 2030,” according to the BBC. “They all agreed in 2015 to make changes
Read more(Author’s Note: Treat this as sarcasm at your own peril.) It is an honor to die for one’s gods, to have your devotion deemed worthy for sacrifice, to be recognized for your obedience to the holy creed. Gods
Read moreBy Jim Holland The other day Mike Pence referred to the Jan. 6 coup attempt as “one day in January.” The use of the word “day” to describe a coup attempt brings to mind the 1960’s movie about a
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