by Doug Thompson | Jan 31, 2021 | Musings, Opinion
In 1981, we moved from Alton, IL, to the Washington, DC area, so I could start what I then thought would be, at most, a two or three-year sabbatical to lean more about how our national government worked, so I could use that knowledge as a newspaperman. We looked...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 10, 2020 | Musings
As noted several times over the past three-plus years, the American flag at our home has flown upside down — a universal signal of a nation in distress. Sunday, on a sunny afternoon, if flew upright for the first time in years. By deposing a criminally-corrupt...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 3, 2020 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
With cameras and notepad, I head out on this cool Tuesday presidential election morning to cover voters making their choice for a report to The Floyd Press, repeating a routine I have followed more than a dozen times over the last five decades. Sixteen years ago, I...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 26, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Whenever I write a critical column about Donald Trump, my email box fills with insults, curses, and claims that I am “a lib-turd” or simply “a liberal.” What, I often wonder, is a liberal. I own enough weapons to start a revolution in some...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 13, 2020 | FUBAR, Opinion, Politics
An alarming number of folks worry that America is headed for a violent showdown because of the rising anger, rabid partisanship and hate that seems to grow like a cancer in our society. “In the past 16 weeks, more than 50 drivers have plowed into peaceful...
