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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 16th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comWhat Hath Trump Wrought?Dan Rather at 89 has been directly involved with the history of the United—now Divided—United States of America for one-third of its life. He spoke truth to power at all levels of government. He asked penetrating questions to dog catchers and presidents alike.…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | May 10th, 2021
…gadfly@gmai.comWhat Are Our Biophysical and Religious Limits?Scientists are studying the effects of the world’s ever-expanding economic growth, increases in population, consumption of our natural resources, and our limited ability to decrease or store our waste. To describe the studies they use the inclusive term “collapseology.” A report from Future Earth…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 3rd, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com30 April 2021 Oliver, David, and Madame Defarge Knew About Economic InequalityCharles Dickens wrote about real history, not fake, in his novels. In Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and ten others,he wrote about debtor’s prisons, workhouses for the young, poor houses…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 25th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com 24 April 2021The Longest Civil War in History: Yankees vs. Planters The American Civil War actually started in 1619 when 20 slaves were brought to the shores of New England. By 1860 there were four million slaving in our economy. Our first eight presidents were slave owners and many…
by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | April 19th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com18 April 2021What Are Our National Goals? I imagine that every person who has lived as long as I have feels that they have lived in transformational times that may change the world. At 89, I get up each morning eager to get to the TV and computer to see…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 12th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.com Sam Harris: “At Some Point It’s Going to Be Too Embarrassing to Believe in God”After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Jerry Falwell, Sr., the leader of the Christian Right “Moral Majority,” blamed the attack on “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and lesbians who…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 4th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy Can’t Whites Jump? In 1946 I graduated from Morrison County District #54 with two others, a German boy and a Polish girl. I’m French. I graduated from Little Falls High School in 1950 with 241 other lily-Whites. Oh, it’s possible that some might have had a drop of Black…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 28th, 2021
…gadfly@gmail.comWhy American Kids Need More School Active-Shooter Drills Than Fire DrillsThe Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area has a population of about 250,000. The Divided States of America has 330 million. The best estimate of the number of usable firearms in the country is 425 million. That’s enough to have 1.3 firearms for…
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…