Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS If the Social Security debate is a reliable precursor of the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a/k/a Obamacare, we will likely be debating the subject when my 9-year old grand-daughter is ready to retire. A recent commentary by America’s leading
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Twenty-three years before Michael Morton was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, another man, Clarence Earl Gideon, was wrongfully sent to a Florida prison for five years for...
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS As most readers likely know, Michael Morton was exonerated of the killing of his wife Christine after serving 25 years in prison because key evidence of his...
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Two recent documentaries about head injuries in football (“League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” by PBS’s Frontline and “The United States of Football” by Sean Pamphilon),...
Monday, October 28th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS How Hays County Government Promotes Religion Part 3: The Constitutionality of Its Religious Practice In Part 1 on this topic, I explained how the Hays County Commissioners...
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Part 2: The Nature of Its Religious Practice In Part 1 on this topic, I explained how the Hays County Commissioners Court established religious worship as an...
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Part 1: The Framework of Its Religious Practice Some strange events occurred in Hays County a year ago, on October 16, 2012, when its Commissioners Court...
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS Critics of President Obama’s proposed bombing of Syria to punish President Assad for his alleged use of sarin gas have many reasons to oppose such action. ...
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
— Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS The news this past week seems to confirm that “Masters of War,” the phrase from Bob Dylan’s 1963 song of that title, are firmly in control...