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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | December 27th, 2020
…Gadfly: Autopsy of a Political PartyEd Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.comWhy did Trump win Robeson County?The southeastern corner of North Carolina is a low-lying area in one of the poorest sections of the state. It is the home of the Lumbee Indians, the largest Indian tribe east of the Mississippi River. The town…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 11th, 2023
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Only Solution to Clean the Washington, D.C. Cow Gutter: A 50/50 Power SplitThe only way our democracy will survive attacks by the Republican Party is to make sure they keep investigating what the Democrats in power are doing “wrong” instead of doing “right.” We sure as hell don’t want…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | April 18th, 2024
…gadfly. Torfin spent much of his time in his midlife to late life trying to get his name on ballots. His best stunt came in 1974. That summer, Justice Obert Teigen abruptly resigned from the Court. I don’t know why. Governor Art Link appointed a Democrat, J. Philip Johnson, to…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 5th, 2018
…What Is The Fastest Growing Religion?Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center and the Hartford Institute for Religious Research indicate that one in four Americans do not belong to any religion. In fact, the largest “religious” group in the United States now is made up of ex-Catholics. At last count,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 31st, 2018
…When anarchy is loosed upon the world A poem by William Butler Yeats perfectly catches the divisiveness of American politics in the Age of Trump. From the Second Coming: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 17th, 2018
…How today’s “christians” hammered the nails into the hands and feet of christHistorian Christopher Browning, who has spent a lifetime studying the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and the World War II era of Europe, has expressed concerns about fascist leanings appearing in Europe and the White House. Over the years it…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 21st, 2016
…gadfly Christopher Hitchens, who charged that Falwell was “so full of crap that if he had an enema you’d be able to bury him in a matchbox.” Ellen currently earns about $75 million a year and has 63 million Twitter followers, about 20% of the U.S. population.Is this book heresy…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 23rd, 2018
…Is Our Democracy Dying From A Koch Assisted-Suicide?The One Percent is going after wealth like Captain Ahab went after The Great White Whale. Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal recently wrote about “the up-market way to prepare for Doomsday.” We already know of dozens of the American uber-rich buying up thousands…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 7th, 2018
…Finally, a fitting monument to the One Percent—a gold toiletThe Middle East has been a human maelstrom for thousands of years because of tribes fighting one another for the four necessities of life. If you wonder about it, study why the region has the highest unemployment rates in the world…
by John Strand | Editorial | September 19th, 2024
…Happy 30th Birthday HPRBy John Strandjas@hpr1.comThirty years ago some gutsy UND student journalists hanging at Whitey’s in East Grand Forks got enough liquid courage to create their own damn newspaper. Then with drinks raised, they toasted the paper’s name, the High Plains Reader. The first issue was dated September 8,…