Jay Stooksberry

The history of ceasefires is plagued by continued violence, ranging from "moderate shooting" to full-scale offensives.

With U.S. strikes on Iran underway, Trump allies are carefully avoiding language that could trigger War Powers limits.

The Delta County School District (DCSD) board recently voted to hire a third-party recruiter to find a replacement for Superintendent Caryn Gibson. But the search is off to a rocky

Once a neutral term meaning to migrate back or return, "remigration" has evolved into a euphemism for forced deportation.

The Delta County School District appears ready to run headfirst into the culture wars. And it’s going to cost us.

How the Democrat decides on the Republican-backed Education Choice for Children Act will test the party’s bigger waters.

The Associated Press recently won in court, challenging Trump's decision to exclude the news organization from the White House press pool

One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.

Though awkward and antiquated, the Second Amendment’s syntax and grammar unambiguously protect gun rights.

The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.

The president-elect uses conditional grammar to craft self-fulfilling speculative historical fiction.

Politicians use first-person plural pronouns (we and us) to insincerely build a collective identity, and use third-person pronouns (they and them) to divide and conquer.

American history brims with executive overuse of first-person personal pronouns.

You have 2 free member-only stories left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one. Despite what you’ve heard, O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy didn’t set a legal precedent for the serial comma. “For want of a comma, we have this case.” These are…

I invited guns, booze, and weed to my house — and the results were frightening. The world is full of scary things, but it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what to be scared of. Fortunately, there are ways to test and evaluate these things. I…

Alternative title: “Oxford Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Obsessing and Become Ambivalent About the Serial Comma” I have strong opinions when it comes to writing. I loathe passive voice, especially when police departments abuse it in their…

David Bradford, chairman of the Delta County Republican Party, wrote quite the whopper recently. In what is mostly a 5,000-word diatribe about this year’s ballot, Bradford offers one soft-headed take after another about each and every measure. I…

Murray Rothbard, John Brown, and Timothy McVeigh walk into a bar — and other reasons why the non-aggression principle is an unfunny philosophical joke that libertarians should abandon. Libertarians often argue about the NAP, or the nonaggression…

Lately, I’m seeing versions of the following rant: “The singular ‘they’ is grammatically incorrect. If you don’t know the gender of the subject, then you should default to ‘he’ or ‘it.’” People often confuse grammar and style. Many think they know…

Jay Stooksberry Just now·4 min read Let’s talk about the Texas abortion law and the recent Supreme Court decision because I believe there are a couple of things that partisans on both sides of the aisle seem to be missing regarding this specific…