Freethought San Marcos: Becoming a victim of TSA’s goons
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS While flying on a plane going west My luggage lock was supposedly the best It met all of TSA’s requirements and rules But still they broke it...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Sanitizing Black history every February
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS – I don’t like to read about Black history during February each year because most of what I find is so sanitized. Black history is full of the...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Drone assassinations are the latest misguided U.S....
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Ever since homo sapiens walked in east Africa 200,000 years ago and feared the rustling in the grass, we have known that this is a dangerous...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Selling cremation door-to-door
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS I just had the opportunity to be a “secret shopper” – from the convenience of my dining room table. Over the years, I have occasionally received...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Questions that Rafael Edward ‘Ted’ Cruz won’t answer
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS As a smart guy who went to Princeton and Harvard, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas must have missed the courses that taught how to do research....
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Keystone XL pipeline debate mired in disinformation
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS One of the attributes of our current politics is the repetition of false information, even after it has been proven false. Such repetition is the...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: CPR and End-of-Life Decisions
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – CPR – is as widely misunderstood as it is widely known, especially when it involves the terminally ill and those...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: The delusions of war ten years after the bombing of...
– – Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS For most of us, the last ten years have not involved the personal agony of US troops killed in Iraq (nearly 4500), wounded (perhaps as many as...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: PEC violates cooperative values, principles of liberty
– – Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS In 2006, my wife and I built our retirement home in the City of San Marcos, but within a small area of the city where electric service is...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Lyndon Baines Johnson, my tragic hero
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS The recent unveiling of a monument to honor Vietnam veterans at the Texas state capitol in Austin rekindled my memories about President Lyndon...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: The NRA, perpetrator of ‘fear itself’
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS For most of my life, the NRA (National Rifle Association) has seemed inconsequential to me. But in the last few years, I have become more...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Tax misconceptions that distort our perceptions
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS “Now a petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government, while millions of people keep falling...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Politicians refuse to protect the public
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS – While the safety and welfare of the public should be the minimal standard to judge the actions of politicians, recent events and public debates...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: The Terror of Bush-Obama Era Foreign Policy
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) noted critically this past week that most members of the mass media gave no coverage or gave short...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: The liberty to live
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS I had a talk with my old friend Wayne the other day. We hadn’t seen each other for a while, so we had a lot of catching up to do. After we...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Guantánamo:The nation’s and Obama’s shame
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS There should be no question that George W. Bush is the first to charge for the shame of Guantánamo. But now President Obama, the Congress, and...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Texas Attorney General Abbott’s ‘demagoduery’
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Sometimes the marvelous English language with its quarter of a million words fails to capture adequately in one word the character of a person or...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: The military’s abuse of enlistees
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS This Memorial Day my thoughts went back to about ten years ago, when I learned as close to first-hand as one can get, short of being in the Army,...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Government lies and secrecy destroy credibility
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS When a high government official blatantly lies in testimony before Congress, it is rare that we learn of the lie as quickly as we did this past...
View ArticleFreethought San Marcos: Ted Cruz’s opposition to liberty
– Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS It was gratifying to read of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, declaring that she has changed her mind about her opposition to gay marriage. Her...
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