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POLITICAL HISTORY | Ranking Donald Trump
among the one and done
Donald John Trump had his papers graded and the voters failed him as decisively as he failed them. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 5, 2021 Those of us who consider history to be recreational reading started … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Martha Ture’s ‘Joe Walker’ should be a screenplay
Her prose is too visual to rest quietly on library shelves. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 3, 2021 [Joe Walker, by Martha Ture. (Lulu Press 2007); paperback; 370 pages; $23.95 on Amazon.com.] SUN CITY, Texas — … Continue reading
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The 800 pound gorilla of 2020
All of my life, I now think I underestimated racism. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | August 5, 2019 Nobody chooses their ethnicity was what I thought as a child from the very first time I was ridiculed … Continue reading
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In the aftermath of ‘The Photo’
Is the United States becoming a rogue nation? By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | June 27, 2019 Unless you live under a rock, you saw the photo — the same one I saw, the one that set my stomach … Continue reading
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The danger of a constitutional crisis
Mr. Trump’s relation to history is ignorance or disregard — which one does not matter. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2019 The Republican Party has been replaced by a personality cult that runs right over … Continue reading
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Three swings and three misses
The news last week tells me it’s time to confess some doozies. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | February 12, 2019 My method of practicing the pundit trade is to own my errors, and the news last week … Continue reading
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Half of an NSA intercept
Little Rocket Man? Dotard here. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 29, 2018 I did over half of my Air Force hitch in USAF Security Service, the USAF branch of the National Security Agency. It was our … Continue reading
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Donald Trump and debts to America’s warriors
The dominant culture has a mixed record of looking after warriors when the war is over. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | April 29, 2018 Traditionally, we Indians honor warriors. We honor not only our own warriors but … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Lamar W. Hankins & Alan Pogue; Christopher Brown & Roddey Reid; Thorne Dreyer & Glenn Smith; Carl Davidson; Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson & Lindsay Rodriguez; Roaul Hernandez; Steve Russell; and Philip Russell
Our guests include authors & activists, political analysts, a music critic and a leftist icon; we talk about guns and feminism; and we bid Mexico’s president bye-bye. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | April 16, 2018 The … Continue reading
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Your money and your life: The politics of
VA medical care
Paleoconservatives have a long-range plan to destroy Medicare and Medicaid without attacking them directly. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2018 Editor’s Note: The Rag Blog published Steve Russell’s article, “Your Money and Your Life,” on … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Paleoconservatives, Rag Bloggers, Socialized Medicine, Steve Russell, Veterans Administration
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Calculating our losses: Hugh Masekela, Rosie the Riveter, Ursula K. Le Guin
Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2018 Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. So … Continue reading
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