Hank Thomas

We Should Be Incensed

It is January 6, 2023.  It is two years ago today that a mob of un-Americans laid siege to our Capital in the hopes of retaining Donald J. Trump in the office of the Presidency.  Donald Trump and his many minions had prepared for that day and some of them actively helped to stoke the …

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Something Bad Happened

Something Bad Happened on January 6th, 2021.  Initially people couldn’t agree on what it was.  Some thought that a large group of citizens assembled to listen to their President’s speech and then walk over to the Capital to take a tour.  Others thought that their President’s speech was a call to action to prevent the …

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Enough!

I have tried to keep my comments, on current affairs, in the middle of the political aisle, but recent events are not all political – many are better described within the context of terrorism.  I think it is time for me to strip off all the varnish and call it like I see it.  Our …

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Freudian Slip

Last Saturday at a campaign rally in Illinois, Representative Mary Miller (R) thanked President Trump for the three Associate Justices he nominated to the United States Supreme Court saying the Court’s Opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade was a “victory for white life.”  She has been trying to correct her words, saying she meant to say …

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Good Behaviour

Well, here we are again with the talking heads all a twitter over the Supreme Court Opinion to overturn the fifty-year-old legal president known as Roe vs. Wade which sanctioned a women’s right to choose.  Many of those talking heads are citing what they believe to be Constitutional text giving Supreme Court Justices “lifetime tenure …

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More About Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Era is the period from 1865-1877.  Our Civil War was fought between 1861-1865 so it took four years to fight the war and twelve years for the “Reconstruction” – Three times longer for “Reconstruction” than for the war.  What was the plan? To be fair, I must offer a disclaimer so that everyone …

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