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The Late Great American Republic

January 2, 2020by lbwoodgate 3 Comments

“The reason many are not shocked about [Trump’s abuse of power] is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.” – Mark Galli, editor in […]

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Evangelicals Faustian Bargain with Trump

December 28, 2019by lbwoodgate 4 Comments

“We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do […]

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Burgess Needs to put Constitution & constituents before Trump

December 6, 2019by lbwoodgate Leave a comment

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” – Aldous Huxley   Trump and his Republican toadies including my Congressman, Michael Burgess, (Tx-26), in glasses standing just to […]

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The New Norm?

October 30, 2019by lbwoodgate 5 Comments

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” ― William Shakespeare, Richard […]

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The Hate You Harbor

September 18, 2019by lbwoodgate 3 Comments

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson A study earlier this year found what most of us already suspected – we […]

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Another (Vape)Smoke and Mirrors Charade Taking Place in the White House

September 14, 2019by lbwoodgate 5 Comments

  Headlines about vaping expressing fears that it may become the latest national health problem are drawing concerns from the public, even Donald Trump supposedly and the First lady. While […]

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Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part IV

March 14, 2018by lbwoodgate 4 Comments

This is the final piece on a four-part series.  Parts I, II and III can be found here, here and here.   America’s Culure of Violence Addressing the culture of […]

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Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part III

March 13, 2018by lbwoodgate 7 Comments

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But … laws and institutions must go hand […]

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Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings – Part II

March 12, 2018by lbwoodgate 4 Comments

This is the second of four articles on how to address the the gun violence epidemic in the U.S.  Part I can be found here Mental Health Care & Gun […]

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Gun Control, Gun Culture/ Gun Violence, Health Care Reform, Social Discourse

Four Distinct Components to End Mass Shootings

March 11, 2018by lbwoodgate 12 Comments

The times we find ourselves in with mass shootings and an excess of gun violence did not take a few days, weeks or months to evolve. It has slowly gathered […]

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