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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…
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…