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LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one should be harmed for their beliefs, views, or opinions. Yet our country, the … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / THE BOMB / The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years out
The bombings of Hiroshima, left, and Nagasaki. Photos in the public domain. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2025 I have lived now for 80 years in the only country that has used an atomic bomb … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, Imperialism, Lamar Hankins, Military Atrocities, Nagasaki, Terrorism
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LAMAR HANKINS / POLICE ABUSE / How the police deny us our constitutional rights
BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / February 13, 2025 [Lamar Hankins discusses this subject on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Friday, February 14, at 2 p.m. on KOOP at 91.7-FM in Austin or streamed at KOOP.org.] While I … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Lamar Hankins, Police Abuse, Rag Bloggers
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LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube
By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warnings and two tickets for speeding or car malfunctions; I have … Continue reading
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Tagged First Amendment, Lamar Hankins, Police Abuse, Police Auditors, YouTube
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LAMAR HANKINS | MIDDLE EAST | Hamas, Israel, and the Palestinians
To criticize Israel’s government and policies is not antisemitic. By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | December 5, 2023 I am reluctant to write about Israel at this politically- and emotionally-charged time because there is little respect for free … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Semitism, Free Speech, Hamas, Israel, Lamar Hankins, Middle East, Palestine
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LAMAR HANKINS | EDUCATION & DIVERSITY | SCOTUS majority misunderstands benefits of college in its recent affirmative action decision.
By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | July 27, 2023 Listen to Thorne Dreyer‘s interview with Lamar Hankins on Rag Radio at 2 p.m., Friday, July 28, 2023, on KOOP 91.7 in Austin or stream at KOOP.org. Six members … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | ‘Woke’ attacks promote inequality and injustice
Not to be ‘woke’ is to willfully ignore reality. By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 13, 2023 Right-wingers, the emotionally damaged, and “lazy ideologues” who hurl being “woke,” like an epithet studded with sharp spikes to wound … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Woke' Attacks, Lamar Hankins, Political Philosophy, Rag Bloggers
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LAMAR HANKINS | ACTIVISM | Rules for troublemakers
My prison experiences caused me to understand how much I had taken on faith about administrators. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 24, 2023 At age 78, I continue to see the value in and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Civil Rights, Lamar Hankins, Mano Amiga, Prison Conditions, Rag Bloggers, Saul Alinsky
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PUBLIC HEALTH | Gov. Abbott’s pandemic failure
It is not a personal health decision when the failure to protect oneself endangers the lives of everyone. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | August 19, 2021 Like many Americans, I have been pondering how we could … Continue reading
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TEXAS HISTORY | Forgetting almost all I ever learned
about the Alamo
The men who fought there may have been brave, but I no longer count them as heroes. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 As a child in the 1950s, it seems that almost everything … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict
By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. His mother grew up in Warsaw and survived the Warsaw … Continue reading →