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Glenn Ickler Guest Columnist Have you ever been so frustrated and angry that you felt like telling everybody and everything in the whole world to go (expletive deleted) themselves?  If so, you will agree, as I do, with a Supreme Court ruling on a First Amendment issue this past week. Brandi Levy — now an 18-year-old college student — was feeling that way as a ninth-grader when she was passed over for the varsity cheerleading squad at Mahoney Area High School in Pennsylvania.  On a Saturday in her high school freshman year, she posted on Snapchat an image of herself and a friend with upr...

Glenn Ickler Guest Columnist If anyone had told me six months ago that someday I would write a column supporting the actions of a politician named Cheney, I would have suggested that this person pay a visit to a highly competent psychiatrist. After all, when Richard B. Cheney was vice president, I once described him in a column as “evil incarnate.”  This was the deadly hawk behind the curtain who pushed President George W. Bush into starting a disastrous war in Iraq, based on false reports of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.  This was the slick conniver who encouraged Dubya to expand ...

Glenn Ickler Guest Columnist There are many things I don’t understand about the Republican Party these days.  The unabashed worship of a defeated, twice-impeached former president whose Big Lie incited a blood-thirsty insurrectionist mob is a prime example. But even more difficult for me to understand than this blind idolatry — the most puzzling issue of all — is the Republican Party’s ongoing war against transgender people in general, and against transgender children in particular.  According to the American Civil Liberties Union, Republicans in 27 state legislatures have filed mor...

Glenn Ickler “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”  -- Exodus 20:4 Perhaps the worshippers of our twice-impeached former president were not aware of this Biblical commandment when they created the gold-plated monstrosity that greeted people attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend. Seeing the color photo of what a perceptive friend described as “a gilded jackass” made me almost as sick as the photos of this creature’s faithful followers trashing our Capitol and savaging its police defenders during the deadly insurrection of Jan. 6.  Ho...

Glenn Ickler “President Biden. How sweet the sound, that saved us from a wretch like Trump.” Those are the words I sang when Garth Brooks invited us all to join him on the last verse of “Amazing Grace” at Wednesday’s presidential inaugural ceremony. While people all over America were joyfully celebrating the triumph of Democracy over lies and violence, our only twice-impeached president, having slunk out of the White House without ever having the courage to speak to his successor, was taking his last ride on Air Force One. He was on his way to sulk in delusion and self-pity at his...