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RED SCARE | The Communists are everywhere: Reflections from childhood
I don’t recall ever discussing the incoming Communist hordes with my parents. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 11, 2021 SAN MARCOS — When I was about 10 years old in the mid-1950s, I had a … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Communists, Lamar W. Hankins, Rag Bloggers, Red Scare
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POETS | Tongo Eisen-Martin: A poet with genocide
on his mind
A story for National Poetry Month. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | March 11, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — English Department purists might complain that Tongo Eisen-Martin doesn’t write “real” poems, that is poems about birds and flowers, … Continue reading
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JUSTICE | Saudi murder and American murder: An
ethical equivalence
While Khashoggi may have had no legal rights under Saudi law, Anwar al-Aulaki was a U.S. citizen and entitled to due process. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 4, 2021 SAN MARCOS — I am as … Continue reading
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Tagged Anwar al-Awlaki, International Justice, Jamal Khashoggi, Lamar W. Hankins, Rag Bloggers, Saudi Arabia
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OBITUARY | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
He was an insurgent poet, feisty publisher, lover of the written and spoken word. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 23, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — He was a poet, a painter, a publisher, and a bookstore … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Movement, City Lights Bookstore, Jonah Raskin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Obituary, Poets, Rag Bloggers
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POLITICAL CRIME | Ken Paxton and the Three ‘Enemigos’
Charting the flagrant abuse of power by Texas’ indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | February 13, 2021 AUSTIN — Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is getting star billing in the crime genre, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Political Crime, Rag Bloggers, Texas Politics
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VERSE | Bernie Sanders’ Victory Tour 2021
By Larry Piltz | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2021 It’s as if Bernie’s lifelong journey of devotion to betterment of all, and becoming over time a beloved benign dogged pursuer of equality and fairness, almost the coming to … Continue reading
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OBITUARY | Rennie Davis (1940-2021): Not the boy next door
He was a man with a deep moral consciousness who followed the dictates of his heart and his head no matter where they took him. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — … Continue reading
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Tagged Divine Light Mission, Guru Maharaj Ji, Jonah Raskin, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Rennie Davis, SDS, Sixties Radicals
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FILM | ‘The War at Home’
A review of Glenn Silber’s and Barry Brown’s timeless documentary. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, California — As Austinites and their friends and comrades all across Texas know, the coasts, east and … Continue reading
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Tagged Criticism, Documentary Film, Film, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, The War at Home
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TRANSPORTATION | Is widening I-35 Austin’s biggest
boondoggle ever?
It costs too much and does too little. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | January 14, 2021 AUSTIN — I think I can make the case that widening I-35 through Central Austin is the biggest boondoggle ever, because … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Traffic, I-35, Mobility, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Transportation, TXDot
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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
