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Two Nations Under God?

In my mind, conservative extremists are a potential danger to me and my family, and I'd rather not live next door to pro-gun-toting racists who ignore the truth and follow their political reps with cult-like allegiance in matters of race, economics, the environment, and personal health.

national politics

Forgive Me Father, For I Elected This Congress

The President's pared-down "Build Back Better" program is now the Inflation Reduction Act. Really. It was announced with a straight face. Not a sure thing, but likely to go into effect through a labyrinthine process called reconciliation, a procedure that no one understands, save Tim the Enchanter.

national politics

Called to the Colors: Betrayal of the American Veteran

Our culture has become very skilled at ginning up false causes for invasions and wasting the honor and patriotism of our young on lies. Young recruits believe their government and the political leaders sending them into conflict, and that, sadly, is their mistake.

Abortion

Dobbs Is Just The Beginning

The Dobbs decision overturning Roe is opposed by comfortable majorities of Americans. Additionally, Americans think the Dobbs decision indicates it is more likely the Supreme Court would roll back the right to contraception and same-sex marriage.

Texas Politics

The Texas Democratic Convention. Apocalypse Dallas.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. -Will Rogers

Abortion

An Open Letter to American White Women on Roe v Wade

This Roe v Wade overturning has been long coming and is one domino of many that have already been occurring and will continue to fall. It is a domino in an interlocking system of dominoes.

national politics

Fourth of July Reflections

"Stop your non-productive whining. Yes, there has been a series of giant steps backward. It is NOT, as thousands of tweets would have you believe, “the lowest point in our nation’s history” nor “the end of our republic” nor, for that matter, is it the worst of anything in our American past."

US History

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?

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