Terry Oxley
Terry is a former utility executive, retired military officer and community service volunteer residing in Tumwater, WA. He has served as Board Director for the United Services Organization (USO), Washington Business Week Foundation, Washington Youth Academy and the Bellevue Schools Foundation. Terry has also served as a contributing writer for The Olympian, a newspaper headquartered in Olympia, WA.
Most Recent Articles by Terry Oxley:
Going Back to Mayberry
August 4, 2026
clearly modern means of communication and remote interconnectivity unheard of just a generation ago is now available to citizens of good-will looking for a better way--a Mayberry if you will;
George Washington, The Constitution & Sanctuary States
July 11, 2025
Ben Franklin warned us about how corruption brings tyranny, but I remain hopeful that Abe Lincoln’s Better Angels will arrive in time to save the Union once again
The Glaring Evident for All to See
February 17, 2025
Pretenders stand aside the glaring evident is calling the warriors and better angels of our nature to service – nothing less will do
What Price Will We Pay?
May 27, 2024
When foundational values, truth and logic give way to the “my truth” contagion anarchy must surely follow
Freedom - A Bundle of Sticks
May 6, 2024
As we ponder the confiscatory nature of socialism, we may want to ask, “are we going to remain a country of property owners with choices and opportunities?” Or will we sell the farm and become mere tenants of an increasingly powerful and constraining
How Durable the American Idea?
April 29, 2024
We must remember that protectors of the American Idea remain where they have always been – with We the People. People of good character.
The common Q?
August 18, 2023
How did someone so inept get elected to public office?
Isn’t It Odd?
June 9, 2023
Why can’t society put the cause of modern-day dysfunction where it belongs – on beliefs and those doing the programing? Is this the very definition of willful myopia – isn’t it odd?
That Ugly Old Tree
May 30, 2023
Dedicated to all the ugly old trees we must save from the axe: virtue, faith, family, liberty, rule-of-law, self-governance, free speech, love of country and a constitutional democracy
The Value of Discomforting Thoughts
May 12, 2023
Is Kennedy’s admonition about our tendency to avoid discomforting thought to be our epitaph – or, to paraphrase President Lincoln, will the “…better angels of our nature” arrive in time to save us from ourselves once again?
Beware the Narrative
April 24, 2023
The errant narrative is indeed a tool subject to abuse by all
The National Divide – Something Old or Something New
April 16, 2023
Franklin’s admonition makes it clear that the greatest threat to our Constitution and the American idea is corruption. In a democratic republic, the threat of corruption is not that of kings, but of ‘we the people’ – people who no longer believe.