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What Does America Want?

"Bradley Freeman was a 19-year-old freshman at Mississippi State University in Starkville when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper. He knew that America was worth fighting for. Freeman, who passed a day before July 4th, would be the last of the "Band of Brothers." "

Abortion

What Fresh Hell Is This? And This? And This, Too?

These are soul-wearying times. Believers (like me) in the slow, inexorable progress of humanity are having to reevaluate the timetables of progress, if not also the ultimate direction.

national politics

These Guys in 2024?

I am of the opinion that Trump is as dead as Elvis for 2024. And the steady drumbeat has sunk in for many, and even some Democrats are now counseling that Biden not run for reelection.

Texas Politics

Focus Your Outrage Because This is All Your Fault

The current Texas plantation holders may rarely admit it publicly, but they are as scared as their 1860 counterparts that there will be an uprising...

Abortion

A Failed Court

Plain Talk: It is Not Possible to Respect Women and Support Forced Pregnancies Forgive my angry rant, but I think it’s time for angry rants…

Abortion

For Love of Mary-Brigid

I find myself in a conundrum due to several events in my life. In short, it isn't cut and dried for either side. But that choice is not mine to make, and certainly not to order for anyone else.

Texas Politics

The Race to Ruin

The rest of America ought to view Texas as a conservative crystal ball and get an honest read of the potential future under unrestrained Republican leadership.

Energy

Biden's Gas Pains

Despite the fact that the pandemic has slowed to a low boil and business and jobs are picking up again, Joe Biden finds himself in the role of Bush and Carter right now. OK, the role of Bush and Carter's grandad.

national politics

POLITICS WEARING YOU OUT? YOU’RE NOT ALONE

When I watch Boebert and Cortez, I’m reminded of something Churchill once said of US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “He is the only bull who brings his own china shop with him.”

national politics

Honey, If Tucker's Looking Quizzical, I'm Worried

Throughout our history, we alternate between greatness and shamefulness. Slavery, and then the war to end it. Emancipation, and then Jim Crow. The Indian wars and, well casinos, I guess.

Guns

To See, Or Not To See

The government controls what we see, and we have let them, which is foolish in the extreme. Because we are now met in a battle on our own soil, except it is not a war, it’s the slaughter of our children.

national politics

Carville to Dems: You're Too Soft and Too Woke

The Cajun Mantis strikes again

Guns

Random Thoughts About Gun Love

What happens when you mix the killing efficiency of a military-style weapon with our usual racial hatred? Look to the recent mass murder in Buffalo.

national politics

Has the Electoral College Overstayed Its Welcome?

I’m not built to embrace voter apathy, but I increasingly understand it. When a person can be elected president while losing the popular vote, who wouldn’t lose faith in the system?

Supreme Court

Dobbs overrules Roe: Welcome to a new America

No American woman under 50 has lived in a country where her choice to have an abortion was not constitutionally-protected. That may all change this summer with the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. And that may be only the beginning.

national politics

There Oughta be a Law Against Unjust Laws

There is something fundamentally wrong about giving any human being a job for life. Every paid human should be subjected to performance reviews ... Maybe the guaranteed gig has made our Court less Supreme.

Health Care

Doc, It Hurts When I Do This. Well, Don't Do That. That'll Be $200.

Is health care a national right, like education, police and fire protection? Should life and death depend on income? Why are we so bad at this?

national politics

Dog, The Money Hunter...Well, OK, Dope and Sex, Too

It's going to be an issue in any upcoming Presidential campaign, whether we like it or not. So, Roger Gray weighs in on the Hunter Biden laptop and is shocked, shocked to find a famous kid is trading on the family fame. What in the name of Javanka is going on here?

national politics

American Coup

How is it not obvious to even the least aware and lowest intellect that the Republicans are manufacturing nonsense to distract you while they loot the government and line their pockets and further enrich their wealthy supporters?

national politics

Broken

"The same government that had created policies to provide me resources to attend college and get an education was about to send me off to die in a rich man’s war."

national politics

Thank You Senator...Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

The hearings this week for Judge Ketangi Brown Jackson caught Roger Gray's eye. How could they not, with Ted Cruz musing about becoming Asian. His thesis? Why are we even going through this.

national politics

But Will He Be Happy With a ’69 Beetle for Graduation?

Social media is chock full of complaints about the price of petrol lately. When it comes to the reasons why, the answers are enough to make Alex Trebek roll over in his grave.

national politics

With All Due Respect to Presidential Races, It’s Not Just About You

One sign of a democracy in danger of losing its freedom is low voter turnout.

Ukraine

You Can't Fight in Here! This is the War Room!

So, you are Biden, Johnson, Macron or Scholz. "How far do you push this? There has been speculation over the years about whether Europe and America would have acted if Hitler had confined his evil to the borders of Germany. What do we risk in Ukraine?"

Ukraine

A Kingdom of Dirt

As the West scrambles to find a way to mitigate the ruthless conquest of Ukraine, the suppressed fears of a nuclear war return. The nightmare seems more vivid than before.

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