“Texas patriots,” as they call themselves, call for secession from the Union, harkening back to their fictionalized idyllic days of the short-lived Republic of Texas. They fantasize about the war for independence from Mexico (fought to...
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29 December 2021
Maddening media misconceptions
1. Can the media, popular culture mavens, and politicians begin to remember yesterday? Or last week, last month, six months, one year, four...
25 December 2021
Note: area readers are aware that the local “daily newspaper” is no longer either daily or a newspaper. Following USA Today/Gannett, the Columbus Dispatch does not publish on Dec. 24 or 25, 31 or Jan. 1 (as...
22 December 2021
Quietly, as usual, the undemocratic apparatuses of the City of Columbus make their moves.
On Friday, Dec. 10, the Columbus Dispatch briefly reported “...
19 December 2021
Former president Donald Trump popularized the phrase “fake news” as one of his terms of universal condemnation for any reporting—or stated facts—with which he disagreed, regardless of their accuracy. It became one of his rhetorical...
14 December 2021
I was sorting the postal delivery recently when I opened an envelope addressed to my wife. It announced a “national campaign” and “citizen opinion survey” from the right-wing activist group Faith & Freedom Caucus’s “founder and...
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