BY VERN TURNER The cascade of events in our country and around the world have challenged me regarding putting out an essay or two. When my old brain gets wrapped around one subject for a comment, something more drastic or dramatic happens and I have to return to square number one. Well, this latest episode…
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BY VERN TURNER Let us not marginalize our return to sanity from the November elections. Yes, Democrats regained the majority in the House of Representatives. Yes, several statehouses and governorships were returned to the party of the people. Yes, the energy to get young people to vote worked. But how decisive was it, really? The…
BY VERN TURNER Every time I tried to write an essay over the last two weeks, events sprang so quickly as to make every sentence obsolete by the time it was written. But today, the dust has settled enough, sort of, for something coherent to be written … at least I think it’s coherent. Since…
BY VERN TURNER The president of the United States has repeatedly accused the constitutionally empowered news media of being the enemy of the people. In his stroke-me “rallies” for Republican candidates, he raves and rails on about how evil, untrustworthy and fake they are. He points them out to his frothing minions at these cult…
BY VERN TURNER July 16, 2018, a day which will live in infamy, saw the president of the United States give comfort to the enemy, an enemy that attacked our basic tenets of democracy. That enemy, Russia, wantonly hacked into our political systems to affect the outcome of our presidential election. That is proven fact….
