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​Empathy or Sociopathy?

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 19th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com Congress: Why Does Australia Have Only One-Tenth the COVID Death Rate?The opening sentence about the COVID virus in “The Last Word” in THE WEEK magazine is shocking: “If the United States had the same death-rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved.” Other countries such as Japan,…

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​Choice: Military Rifles or Democracy

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | June 4th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com First, because of the intractability of the gun culture for forty years, and a Supreme Court that bases its firearm opinions on the flintlock musket, I propose that public K-12 and college and university professors in the country tell Congress: pass all necessary and reasonable gun safety and control…

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​Going Ape and Crowing About It

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 28th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com Taking a Break From Politics While Watching Bird BrainsAs a farm boy I always enjoyed feeding our animals and birds after helping to prepare the foods they all enjoyed, whether it was corn on the cob for pigs or silage chopped up for the cows for their winter buffet.…

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Killing Off the Middle Class

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 22nd, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com If You Want a Free University Education, Why Not Go to Europe?Why are President Joe Biden and the White House in some kind of sleep mode? Very little is getting done! We can’t afford to go back to “normal,” Joe! Why does Bernie have to get on national news…

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​Abortion: Political, Moral, or Religious?

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 18th, 2022

…gadfly@mail.com Basic Question: Do We Kill the Mother or the Fetus?Abortion, in the simplest text, involves and confounds sex, love, hate, poverty and wealth. Billions of dollars are exchanged by various genders as they seek sex around the world. Bangkok is aptly named. People pay thousands of dollars in airfare…

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​What Is Democracy?

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 8th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com How Can We Know Democracy When We Have Never Experienced It?Some Americans have said we had democracy when one rich man wrote that all men were “created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Evidently he didn’t mean women at all—or slaves who were only three-fifths…

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​Hatred in the World

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 30th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com Man Was Made by Shock and AgonyThe printing presses and all those tiny chips fill our eyes and ears every second with words and images of war, destruction, and the slaughter of human beings in Ukraine and other spots on the planet. Vladimir Putin is just one man blamed…

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Women as Leaders

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 23rd, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com What Do Republican and Democratic Women Stand For?Have we lost our way? What are the values of a democracy? In February of 1994, after many years of Russian subjugation, the president of Estonia listed the following values in a speech in Hamburg, Germany: ”(The values are) Freedom of every…

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​Transolosophy

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 26th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com Whatever Happened to Real Conservation, Family Values, and Honest Debate?With the word “transgender” in the headlines lately, which describes the power of the brain over the organs of the body, I thought I would come up with a new word describing the flip-flopping knuckle-dragging philosophy of Republicans lately.That word…

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​Sunburned White Dominion

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 19th, 2022

…gadfly@gmail.com Breaking World News! Trump Told His First Truth and Only Truth Five Years Ago!It’s been a terrible week. The Vikings signed their narcissistic quarterback Kirk Cousins to two more years of mediocre play at the most important position on a football team. He thinks only of himself and his…

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