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Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

Freethought San Marcos: The debates of 1787 foreshadowed today’s health care debate

— 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: Failures of the court-appointed attorney system

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: Criminal Justice and the Michael Morton case

— 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: The irremediable danger of American football

— 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: How Hays County government promotes religion (Part 3)

— 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: How Hays County government promotes religion (Part 2)

— 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: How Hays County government promotes religion

— 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...

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

Freethought San Marcos: A case study in DWI and the citizen accused

Freethought San Marcos: A column by LAMAR W. HANKINS On Aug. 30, San Marcos attorney Kyle Maysel was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge after a minor traffic accident in which he backed into a stopped...

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Freethought San Marcos: Bombing Syria–An extension of failed US foreign policy

— 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: The “Masters of War” firmly in control of US foreign policy

— 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...

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