A true democratic republic requires all adult citizens participate in selecting responsible leadership
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The world asks how we ever allowed Trump to become president
The Re-Con
Turning the corner
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The rest of the way home was still all uphill—as it likely is for all of us
Letters to the Publisher
Our democracy: a bridge over troubled water; we could lose it in a generation
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If we are diligent in applying our constitutional rights, vigilant in watching our government’s actions. and effectively interjecting our own views into the system, we may perpetuate our democracy for our children.
The Re-Con
Count me out if being an American perpetuates the racist traditions of exterminating and displacing Native Americans; interning Japanese-Americans; enslaving, lynching, and murdering African Americans; and deporting Mexican, Central American, and South American asylum-seekers
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dt proclaims that he loves the uneducated, and Americans, unable to recognize an insult revel in his and their own ignorance
The Re-Con
The death of a pig
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Even when money is tight, markets are unreliable, and government is incompetent, ranchers and farmers can feed themselves
Santa Maria Journal
Weather can hold us rapt to the natural world in extremes of fury and restoration
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A gust of wind sent my hat sailing down the road like a tumbleweed. So much depended on that hat.
Past Perfect
Decameron Tale VIII – The dying cowboy’s tale: he wasn’t shot; he was dying of an untreated STD
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Don’t expect an appreciative smile when you start singing “As I walked down the streets of Laredo”