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
The US Army Manual from 1984 defines terrorism as “The calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological …

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 …

Freethought San Marcos: A column
by LAMAR W. HANKINS

The devastating earthquake in Haiti has led to an outpouring of assistance from around the world. Numerous aid organizations were already working in Haiti at the …

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.