The Gadfly: Autopsy of a Dying Party
Biden promised to restore the “soul” of the country. “Soul” does not put food on the table, bedrooms for the kids, cars in the…
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20 Reasons Why 2020 Was. THE. BEST. YEAR. EVER.
by HPR Contributor | Dec 18, 2020
Will Block grew up around a therapist. The year 2020 has been mind-bending beyond belief. We need some humor in all this darkness.
Read NowHindsight is 2020: Hopefully 2021 isn’t a terrible sequel
by Sabrina Hornung | Dec 17, 2020
Last New Year’s Eve I found myself using the cheer “Here’s to 2020 vision” as I clinked glasses with my friends. 2020 was going…
Read NowAmerica on Hospice
by Ed Raymond | Dec 4, 2020
“Instead of a United States of America we have an America divided into Red America and Blue America.”
Read NowWe see you and we thank you: Giving Thanks in a Pandemic
by John Strand | Dec 4, 2020
These days – this year – it’s a challenge to see good when there’s so much bad going on out there. It’s not easy…
Read NowFreedom or Free-For-All?
by Ed Raymond | Nov 14, 2020
“Your freedom to do as you please with your fist ends where my jaw begins.”
Read NowCan we trust our country?
by HPR Contributor | Nov 14, 2020
If we can't trust the vote, we don't really have a country.
Read NowParler Games
by Sabrina Hornung | Nov 14, 2020
In a news cycle where it’s tough to discern fact from fiction, you may have noticed that a number of conservative media consumers are…
Read NowSinging (r)Evolutions The American Commitment to Democracy, Part I
by HPR Contributor | Nov 12, 2020
“ It is amazing how “count all the votes” has the ring of freedom about it"
Read NowA Two Minute Political Fly-By
by Ed Raymond | Oct 21, 2020
PQ: “With this COVID-19 pandemic, we are already in another Great Depression. Soon we will have millions of citizens living in ‘Trumpvillas’ when they…
Read NowDo you feel like we do? Real patriots wear masks
by Sabrina Hornung | Oct 21, 2020
Peter Frampton saves Fargo
Read NowPolitics and Religion 2
by Ed Raymond | Oct 7, 2020
..the arguments about sex and all of its accouterments is still causing a heap of trouble in the river city of Tiber in Rome…
Read NowSometimes we need to hit the restart button: HPR’s Relaunch
by John Strand | Oct 7, 2020
The Little Newspaper That Could is back after a six month hiatus due to the historic coronavirus pandemic. A lot has happened since March…
Read NowDon’t take your breath for granted: A COVID experience
by Sabrina Hornung | Oct 7, 2020
It was one of the most poignant moments of the summer, especially after we came back to find my friend, with whom I had…
Read NowTime to listen and reflect
by HPR Contributor | Oct 7, 2020
“So many of us in this community have awakened to a world that we refuse to close our eyes to.”
Read NowNo Tolerance? —No Democracy; No Freedom, Peace Or Justice; No Habitable Planet!
by Charlie Barber | Oct 2, 2020
No Tolerance? — No Democracy; No Freedom, Peace Or Justice; No Habitable Planet! “Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must…
Read NowResults of the 2016 Roundup
by Ed Raymond | Sep 29, 2020
The losers become zombie-like cult followers. Trumplicans have now been “vaccinated” against reality.
Read NowBoys (and Girls) Who Cried “HOAX!” Meet the Covid-19 Wolf
by Charlie Barber | Sep 25, 2020
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” – Confucius “On March 26, 2020, the people of the United States…
Read NowAmerica on the Downhill Slope
by Ed Raymond | Sep 20, 2020
The Death of Empire by A Thousand Cuts
Read NowZombies On The March
by Ed Raymond | Sep 15, 2020
The New Normal: The Senate Of The Living Dead
Read NowThe Birth(erism) of Trump’s Nation of Cowards
by Charlie Barber | Sep 15, 2020
“(Kafka’s) world knows no physical or moral order…We, the readers, are reliving our bad dreams…punishment is over all the characters, but the crime remains…
Read NowThe Milwaukee Bucks and “Big Bucks” Put Racism in the “Penalty Box.”
by Charlie Barber | Sep 7, 2020
“The vast majority of African-Americans who lived in this land in the first 246 years of what is now the United States lived under…
Read NowA Cabin In Butcher Holler
by Ed Raymond | Sep 7, 2020
How Many People Can Retire For Forty Years?King Donald got a lot of votes in coal country stretching from West Virginia to North Dakota…
Read NowEndgame for John Wayne/Rambo/Trump, “Reality” TV and “Virtual” History
by Charlie Barber | Aug 31, 2020
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” – Ralph Elison, Invisible Man, 1951 “Although the (1965) Voting Rights Act was...
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