Ron Jacobs

Lawfare is a relatively new term. In essence, it is the weaponization of bourgeois law, usually by the right wing. Various US supporters of Donald Trump

The Grateful Dead were a cultural and commercial phenomenon. Indeed, one can argue they still are. Even the band's detractors would agree with that statement.

I want the FBI to be disbanded. Forever. I’ve wanted this to happen since 1970. When the Senate hearings led by Franck Church revealed the extent of the FBI’s (and the CIA’s) infiltration of political and cultural organizations a couple years later, my hatred of the agency multiplied a hundredfold. That being said, I don't want the FBI to be replaced by a Donald Trump-run national police agency—a TBI, if you will. For those who don’t know and those who don’t remember, Richard Nixon tried to remake the FBI in his image back in the early 1970s. He got very close to doing so. According to what I’ve been able to parse over the years in my reading, conversation and other research, a big reason Nixon failed in turning the FBI into his own private police force was the presence of another powerful reactionary. That was the long time director of the Agency, J. Edgar Hoover, who only ended his directorship by dying.

“A mighty hot dog is our lord….” The listener hears this incantation, this sacrilege, a few minutes into the Firesign Theater’s recording titled Don’t

Last January, the Museum Musing column dealt with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marietta and the 1987 Red River flood. In the article, some historical information about the early days of Love County was included.

US troops deployed to Syria, November 2020. Photo: U.S. Army by Spc. Jensen Guillory.

There is a new fire station in the future for Falconhead. This week the department received a $10,000 grant which will be applied toward the structure. The Department has accumulated other funds to provide their portion of a 80 to 20 percent matching grant.

Image by Alex Shuper. To most people who read or otherwise consume western media, the fall of the Assad government in Syria was unusually quick and even surprising.

Image by Allison Saeng. There's a precipice and we are standing on its edge. The world as it exists on the eve of 2025 is a world of war and genocide.

September 1905: Rod & Gun Club Thirty-nine shares of 100 dollars a share have been taken in the Rod and Gun Club.