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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 27th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Why Not Pass Black-White Flag Laws to Label Who Lies, Cheats, and Stinks?We have “red flag” laws in 19 states to keep weapons out of the hands of malcontents and the mentally unbalanced who threaten family members and others with firearms or other weapons. The American Psychiatric Association has…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 19th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com That’s the Big Question Today: To Be (Democratic) or Not to Be (Autocratic)Here we are, only 400 years after our major trouble started with the Mayflower and other ships landing immigrants and slaves on “American” soil named after an Italian entrepreneur named Amerigo Vespucci. He explored possibilities here twice…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 16th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com A Trivia Question: How Many Horses Have Been Elected Senator?There is ample critical historical evidence that horses, or their varying parts thereof, have played important roles in the governing of nations for over 2,000 years. Emperor Caligula, who ruled Rome from year 37 to 41, had the qualities of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | November 5th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com This Country Is Going to Hell While Politicians of Both Parties Are DancingIt’s been many years since Corky and I did the Hokey Pokey, that dance where you forced your extremities, including your head, to flail and shake to a musical Caribbean-like beat furnished by various instruments. The common…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 24th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Why Did One of the Most Civilized Countries Commit Crimes Against Humanity?At the end of World War II I was thirteen and enthralled by aircraft carriers, 70-ton tanks, B-29s, and uniforms. Since then, I have read a dozen books and hundreds of articles about the Holocaust, and Corky and…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 20th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.comThere Are Many Reasons Why Our Middle Class Is DisappearingEnglish novelist Charles Dickens, who experienced both poverty and wealth in his lifetime, included both poor and rich in his novels, particularly in Bleak House, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities. Remember Scrooge and Tiny Tim in…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | October 1st, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.comA Rich Caveman Had Extra Skins While Today a Super Rich Man Has Two YachtsThe Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch’s daily recipe for the rich and infamous, publishes a section called “Mansions” every Friday. In the September 16th edition, the section bragged shamelessly that a developer was asking $250 million…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 25th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com From Mansion or Hovel, We All End Up DeadWe are now living in the Divided States of America, which has been developing for more than 240 years. Economist Frederic Bastiat has come up with the main reason for the division: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 18th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Double Jeopardy: Being a Member of the LBGTQ+ Community and College DebtIn the 16th Century, King Henry VIII told the Roman Catholic Church in England to go back to Rome after Pope Clement VII refused to give him an annulment or divorce from his first marriage to Catherine of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | September 17th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Our Society is Facing Several Nuclear Options in These Critical TimesI always had my senior English students at Fargo Central High School read and discuss “The Strange Death of Louis Slotin,” because for the rest of our human history we were going to live or die with atoms. It…