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.