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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 18th, 2020
…Why, It’s Joe Biden, Stumbling Through Debates and Billionaire’s PocketsBrian Michelz and his wife Sarah in Madison, Wisconsin are saddled with medical and college student debt, and like half the families in the United States, can’t come up with $400 to cover an emergency although both are working, she as…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 4th, 2020
…Here’s Why We Need Single-Payer Medicare-For-AllUtah teacher Ann Lovell flies to San Diego and then is escorted across the border to Tijuana every few months to buy drugs to control her rheumatoid arthritis. Her flights are paid for by the state of Utah’s insurance carrier because, even with the flights…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 19th, 2020
…Two Devastating Swarms ‘Tis the season when billions of locusts swarm across Northern Africa and Southern Asia creating famines. A single swarm with as many as 70 billion who transform themselves from avoiding other locusts to a “gregarious” state, can cover 450 sq. miles of territory and consume as much…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 12th, 2020
…Who Will Be The First Trumplican To Stop Applauding?Watching the State of Trump, the National Prayer Breakfast for Trump, and the White House Celebration for the “perfect” Trump, I recalled a HPR column I wrote about Joe Stalin’s days as Russia’s Trump back on November 11, 2007 titled “An Archipelago…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 5th, 2020
…President Roosevelt: “The Malefactors of Great Wealth Are Against Worker Rights”He also believed that the Declaration of Independence declared that “the rights of the worker to a living wage, to reasonable hours of labor, to decent working and living conditions, and to freedom of thought and speech and industrial representation—-in…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 29th, 2020
…art by Mark RobinsonThe Crazy Nutcase In the Basement Is Now Presiding In The Oval officeThere is no doubt in many minds that the impeachment of King Donald and the 2020 presidential election are the two most consequential actions in the 224-year history of the United States because we have…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 22nd, 2020
…Whatta Deal! A Heart Transplant Only Runs $1,698,831.13!Ten years ago our life expectancy plateaued—and then we started to lose years of life. Every other industrialized country has gained years. A study claims this has happened because of drug overdoses, suicides, alcohol-related diseases, and obesity. The age group 25-64 is dying…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 15th, 2020
…Our Great Leader of the Zombies Is Tilting at Windmills AgainA few days after he was impeached by the House, King Donald admitted to a group of young conservatives attending a Turning Point USA annual summit in Florida he never has understood wind, but “You know, I know windmills very…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 23rd, 2019
…There Are Old Bold Pirates and New Bold Pirates I’m transposing a phrase by E. Hamilton Lee and General Chuck Yeager, both pilots of renown, who used the phrase: “There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots” in the old business of flying airplanes…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 18th, 2019
…Where Are The Best Capitalistic Countries?A worker and his family in (_______) is automatically covered by a taxpayer-funded universal healthcare program equal in quality to any on Planet Earth. Twenty percent of the costs of their healthcare does not go to paperwork, insurance companies, doctors out of network, agents haggling…