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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…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 4th, 2020
…gadfly@gmail.comMission PossiblePresident Joe: your first important mission, if you choose to accept it, is to ask 90 million American registered voters why they didn’t vote in 2020. Then tell Chairman Tom Perez and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to wake up from political dementia and call each non-voter for an…
by Raul Gomez | Gadfly | October 21st, 2020
…gadfly@gmail.comWhere Was That Messenger From?During the vice-presidential debate, there were three beings on stage who tried to obey the established rules that responses to questions must be limited to two minutes: two were moderator Susan Page and candidate Kamala Harris, the other was a fly that landed on Vice-President Mike…
by Raul Gomez | Gadfly | October 7th, 2020
…gadfly@gmail.comWhat Century Are The Catholic Supreme Court Judges Living In?If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed there will be six Catholics, two Jews, and one former Catholic on the Supreme Court making monumental decisions about how Americans are going to live out our lives. What centuries will they represent? The Roman…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 29th, 2020
…The Trump Knives and Branding Irons Have Done their WorkPoor “Moscow” Mitch. Absolute power does corrupt. Chimps, bonobos, and Homo Sapiens share over 99% of DNA. The Senate Majority Leader could not even wait for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body to reach room temperature before he announced the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 20th, 2020
…The Death of Empire by A Thousand CutsSome empires last longer than others. Rome was one. The Chinese empire died the death of a thousand cuts they made famous a thousand years ago. But the Chinese heart that was sliced centuries ago evidently was put on life support, because it…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 7th, 2020
…How Many People Can Retire For Forty Years?King Donald got a lot of votes in coal country stretching from West Virginia to North Dakota in 2016 by lying that he would bring coal back. He is a good salesman as most narcissistic psychopaths are. But it never happened—and it is…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 30th, 2020
…Yes, America Is Truly Exceptional In The Healthcare Business!In 1833 conservative German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck created the first universal healthcare system in the world because he recognized it was the job of government to protect all Germans. In addition to the Insurance Bill of 1883, he passed the Accident…