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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 16th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com What Can We Do To Limit Population When Each Female Can Have 39 Births?This is what happened in 1967 when Lorraine Saulino-Klein of Laramie, Wyoming was an 18-year-old student nurse at Kings County Hospital Center School of Nursing in Brooklyn: In a hospital room with a half-dozen doctors watching…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 27th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Will a Political Party That Burns Books Ultimately Burn Who Reads Them?My choice for second-worst political party in modern times is the Monster Raving Loony Party organized in Great Britain by Davis “Screaming Lord” Such. His platform had two major goals: (1) tow Britain 500 miles further out to…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 27th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail,com Three Men Who Turned Me Into a Social Liberal and a Moral CapitalistMy political beliefs were not forged by Greek philosophers, Nobel economists, politicians, and historians. They were born and matured by words of steel by three writers of fiction: Howard Pyle, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. In District…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 19th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com Should That Be a Question on the Job in the Richest Country in the World?Back in the 17th century, Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play mused about life and death, heaven, purgatory and hell, religion, and whether suicide might be an answer to all of life’s problems in the greatest soliloquy…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 29th, 2022
…gadfly@gmail.com The Roman Empire Lasted About 600 YearsHow long will the American Empire last? The English historian Edward Gibbons covered the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes published in 1788 and 1789. He covers 98 AD to 1590 AD in his epic work. Among his six…