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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 6th, 2016
…Voter fraud in Texas and WisconsinIn the last ten years over 20 million votes have been cast in Texas state elections. Only two cases of voter fraud in that span of time have been prosecuted to conviction.Because of a lawsuit in Wisconsin, a district judge and aides prepared a 90-page…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 31st, 2016
…Expensive “free speech” doesn’t mean anything Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University has surveyed 157 countries to find the “world’s happiest place” based on such facts as Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP), social support, healthy life expectancy , freedom to make life choices,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 10th, 2016
…Killing Cats And Dogs, Selling Human Heads, And A Little Cannibalism I got a severe case of the heebie-jeebies the other night during the Republican debate when Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz were in the middle of yelling at each other and exchanging insults and lies at warp…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 3rd, 2016
…The Supreme Court and GitmoEven before Justice Antonin Scalia’s body at that exclusive Texas ranch-resort had assumed room temperature, leaders of the American Taliban, the Republican Party, said it would be useless for President Barack Obama to nominate a replacement because Republicans would not allow an up-or-down vote on the…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 27th, 2016
…Shouldn’t Everyone Carry Blood-Red Poppies?Every time a soldier was shot and fell in the satiric movie “Oh What A Lovely War” the screen went red and a red poppy grew. The symbol of a red poppy for a death on the battlefield came out of the horrendous casualties in World…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | January 24th, 2016
…Union Doctor: “To Work In A Hospital Today Is To Be Constantly Occupied With Money” This quote came from an Oregon hospitalist, a doctor who supervises patients’ care in hospitals, when he and his fellow 35 hospitalists decided to form a union when they were offered bonus plans if they…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 17th, 2015
…Can God Overthrow the National Rifle Association?So what have we heard after daily mass killings for over a decade from politicians and candidates for office when they attempt to console families? Something about “our thoughts and prayers are with you?” That phrase is as powerful as the automatic salute to…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 15th, 2015
…Having Everything—Having NothingIn his novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” Charles Dickens writes of life in Paris and London just before and during the French Revolution of 1789. His first paragraph may be instructive about the differences between the rich and poor in the United States in 2015: “It was…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 12th, 2015
…Esther Jenner, 89: “He’s A Very Good-Looking Woman. I Loved Him With All My Heart—And I Certainly Love Her With All My Heart.”Some people have said that 89-year-old Esther, the mother of her 65-year-old daughter Caitlyn Jenner, screwed up her pronouns in making the above statements. I don’t think so.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 29th, 2015
…From black space to bright blue earth: a fragile thin lineAstronaut Sally Ride, our first woman in space, spent time looking at earth as the space shuttle hurtled around the earth, entranced by a bright day turning into a dark night in a single orbit: “I saw the blackness of space, and…