This essay is dedicated to my well-read and erudite friend Woody Besse in Cedar Hill, Texas who puts up with my decidedly anti-Republican essays exposing the duplicity and double-talk given to education and learning, First Amendment rights and guarantees, and the equality of all people regardless of sex, gender, gender-identification, race, age, status, etc. Burning …
Extremism is the reality that Texas has lovingly preserved: in politics, in religion, in enforcement (there are more crimes against humanity by police and sheriffs in Texas than in any other state) while education, health, family life and security remain low. The more hate a person can spew is the passport to political office, and …
American Family Association (AFA), Family Research Council (FRC). and 2nd Vote are white christian evangelical organizations committed to destroying equality and democracy, following the far-right Heritage Foundation. 2nd Vote claims that it is the “Conservative Watchdog for Corporate Activism” and boasts that it has gone so far as rating companies based on much the organization …