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Historical Truth—Eight Of Our Presidents Staffed The White House With Slaves

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Sep. 6

How You Can Earn $12 Million A Year In The United States

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Aug. 31

A Time For War—And A Time For Peace

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Aug. 24

Can We Learn Anything After We Know It All?

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Aug. 17

The World Has Decided King Donald Has Made Us Irrelevant

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Aug. 10

When Have-It-Alls And Well-To-Doers Don’t Want To Share Any Of It

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Aug. 3

And The Band Played On

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Jul. 26

A World Too Much With Us

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Jul. 20

Of Mice and Men — and Elephants

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Jul. 13

Just Another Day In Tombstone And Dodge USA

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Jun. 28

From Homer’s Odyssey To Buddy Holly - The Times They Are A-Changin’

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Jun. 22

Aggressive Rats and Monkeys

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Jun. 14

How Long Does It Take You To Pay Your Social Security Taxes For The Year?

Disaster Capitalism

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday Jun. 8

Bulls, Biblical BS, and Blasphemy

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday May. 31

To Pee or Not To Pee—That’s a Question?

Ed Raymond  |  Thursday May. 25

It’s Time To End Religious Slavery, Discrimination, Racism, and Sexual Violence

How About Freedom from Religion?

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday May. 17

How About Cow’s Tongue for School Lunch

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday May. 10

Back To The Basement, Graduates

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday May. 3

A Huge Pile of Corpses

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Apr. 26

“All Cruelty Springs from Weakness”

Would a Liberal Democrat or a Conservative Republican Kill Baited Bears?

Ed Raymond  |  Wednesday Apr. 19

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