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by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 21st, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com21 January 2021 What Job Pays 90 Bucks an Hour and You Just Have to Keep Repeating “NO”?There evidently is a great deal of truth in the old adage: “Those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it.” The Divided States of America are beginning to look more like…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 15th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com The Only Way to Defeat Trumpistan Is to Pass the Democratic Party’s PlatformSince 2013, when Chief Justice John Roberts declared the election of Barack Obama had proven that racial discrimination no longer existed in the United States, the Republicans have closed 1,688 polling places. Texas alone has closed 750…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 8th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com 08 March 2021Dennis: “Why Did Jesus Turn Water Into Wine When He Could Have Changed It Into Chocolate Milk?”As I listened to our resident Mara-Loco psychopath Donald Trump address his cult at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) emphasizing his “America First” white supremacist program and ranting about immigrants,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 1st, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com28 February 2021How Can We Reform Victims of Trumpism, QAnon, and the New Ku Klux Klan?In a Hialeah, Florida grocery store, a Hispanic man asked a white woman standing behind him, in both Spanish and English, to move six feet from him as they stood waiting to check out. She…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 23rd, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com21 February 2021Have We Eliminated ‘The Giants Of Racism, Extreme Materialism, And Militarism’?In 1915 President Woodrow Wilson saw the first American motion picture ever shown in the White House, “The Birth of a Nation,” based on the book “The Clansman,” by Thomas Dixon. Jr.It was a three-hour movie, part fiction…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 15th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comFebruary 18, 2021 Maybe the Prophet Down on Interstate 94 Was WrongAs a student of American literature, I have read some of Sinclair Lewis’s many books: Main Street, Babbit, Arrowsmith,Elmer Gantry, and It Can’t Happen Here come to mind. Born in Sauk Centre in 1885, Lewis was evidently a troublesome…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 2nd, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comAre We Heading for ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’?Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a play about chaos that results when a person in the human chain of being rises above his level of competence. In our society we call it the Peter Principle. We have just finished four years of chaos with…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 20th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Ku Klux Klan Don’t Wear Hoods AnymoreIn a December column I wrote the following: “We are in the middle of dangerous times. We are on a knife’s edge of losing ‘it’.” “‘It’ stands for country.” On January 13, the day the House impeached Donald J. Trump, I saw 2,000…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 13th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comWhere Do We Belong in God’s Universe?In the 16th century the dominant religious “theory” was that everything on the planet from God down to minerals and rocks were links in the Elizabethan Chain of Being. The earth that came from the disintegration of rocks was at the bottom of the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | January 11th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comThe Scientific Method, Darwin, and Religious ErosionPeople who study us and our surroundings use the five following methods to come to a conclusion, basing it on this scientific method: hypothesis, observation, prediction, experiment, and confirmation. As an example, the experts in past pandemics used this scientific method to determine that…