Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

Evolution is science, but most Americans don’t understand it. Only 39% of Americans accept the theory of evolution, while nearly all probably accept the theory …

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

For many years, city councils around the country have allowed their meetings to be used to promote Christianity, mostly of the evangelical kind. In 2009, we …

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

Sixty years into the health care-for-all debate, some people continue to call health insurance reform socialism. If, by socialism, such people means that the control and …

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS
Malcolm Nance has a plan to defeat al Queda. His approach diverges significantly from the military paradigm that has driven America’s foreign policy for decades. His new book …

Stephen Kinslow, the President of the Austin Community College district, has begun anew the effort to convince San Marcos area taxpayers that we should be willing to allow ACC to tax us so that residents from the SMCISD area can receive a lower tuition cost than is paid by out-of-district students.

In his last HBO special, the late comedian George Carlin opined that we don’t have rights, only temporary privileges. Events of this past decade suggest that Carlin was correct.

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

in fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Today we honor him in song

Columbus hero brave and strong

Those verses are …

Celebrations around the country mark the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday on January 18. They are important tributes to a great and patriotic American. Each year, most of them focus on the Martin Luther King of 1963–the one who argued persuasively for judging his children by the content of their character, rather than the color their skin.

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck explained the other day, “I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation’s leadership:
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Two years ago, when my mother was 88, her health began deteriorating rapidly. She was hospitalized twice before she came home for the last time under the care of hospice. One of her first, and lingering, symptoms was unexplained nausea, which was unabated for about two months. After hospice care began, the hospice nurse, working with advice and supervision from the hospice doctor, began trying to find some drug or combination of drugs to overcome Mother’s nausea. After experimenting with several drugs and combinations to no effect, the nurse finally hit on a successful combination: an anti-nausea drug combined with Marinol.