Tag Archives: Lamar W. Hankins

Lamar W. Hankins : Playing Politics with Religion in Hays County, Texas

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Alamy / The Telegraph.Hays County officials play politicswith religious invocation Individual rights of conscience and religious diversity cannot be maintained when the government promotes one religion over others. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | October … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Lamar W. Hankins : America’s ‘Gunfight’ over Gun Control

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Gunfights:America’s conflicts over gun control Winkler’s research demonstrates clearly that Americans have always had the right to bear arms and the government has always had the right to regulate guns. By Lamar W. Hankins /The Rag Blog / September 25, … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Religious Unrest, Violence, and Intolerance

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, September 11, 2012. Photo from Reuters / MarketWatch.Religious unrest, violence, and intolerance A society where great umbrage is taken by large numbers of people to criticism of a particular religion and that umbrage … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Grover Norquist and ‘Pledges Oft Interred…’

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Blackmailer Grover Norquist. Caricature by DonkeyHotey. Inset photos below: Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed.The pledges of men areoft interred with their bones Republicans fear Grover Norquist, who keeps their pledges locked in a safe as though they are valuable stock … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : What’s Conservative about Paul Ryan?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Ryan shrugged. Cover art by Drew Friedman for the New York Observer from his Facebook page.What’s conservative about Paul Ryan? Paul Ryan is an extremist on issues of restricting personal liberty and using government to benefit the wealthy to the … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : German Freethinkers and the Massacre at the Nueces

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

A number of German Freethinking Unionists were hung after the massacre at the Nueces River in the Texas Hill Country. Graphic from Thoughts, Essays, and Musings on the Civil War. Inset image below: Treu der Union monument at Comfort, Texas. … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : The Courts and the Mount Soledad Cross

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Church and State: Mount Soledad cross with American flag. Photo from Getty Images / ABC News.Why Christian crosses don’t belongon war and veterans’ memorials Their complaint was that the Christian cross made this a sectarian war memorial with an inherently … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Suppressing Democracy 101

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic from Other Means.Today’s Republicans findnew ways to suppress democracy By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 19, 2012 Registering the poor to vote ‘is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.’ — Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : The Gospel Truth

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

West Virginia Pentecostal preacher Mark Randall “Mack” Wolford died from a snake bite he received handling snakes in church. Image from Eternal Life Blog.The Gospel truth:Fatal misunderstanding of the Bible ‘And these signs will follow those who believe: in My … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Obama’s ‘Rage’ and Other Fairy Tales

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Ragin’ Obama: The right-wing view.Obama’s ‘rage’ and other fairy tales When I think of Barack Obama, I never think rage. I have raged against him on more than one occasion, but Obama never rages back. In fact, he is ridiculed … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Sweet Land of Liberty (for Some)

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

“The Weight of Liberty.” Sculpture by Juliana Murcia Ortiz.Ah, irony:Sweet Land of Liberty When liberty serves the interest mainly of the plutocrats who are largely in control of this country, we no longer have a republic that is of, by, … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : A Texas Funeral and the Failure of Regulation

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

A “Heritage of Service”: Sunset Memorial Funeral Home in Odessa, Texas. Image from website.A Texas funeral:A case study in the failure of regulation By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | May 16, 2012 [Regular Rag Blog contributor Lamar … Continue reading →

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