When Events Amaze
This past week has been one of those special times that prove how unpredictable the flow of events can be. It is an important realization, in our dark era in America, to recognize that our sense of...
View ArticleDylann Roof and a Culture that Turns the Truth on Its Head
“You rape our women,” Dylann Roof is reported to have declared just prior to shooting nine black people in a Charleston church. And in that, he showed a mentality that reflects something deep in the...
View ArticleOn the Question of God or gods, on the Contrast Between the Hebrews and the...
I find myself wondering something about the idea of God. It grew out of my noticing the strangeness of the contrast between two important cultures in the millennium before the birth of Jesus: the...
View ArticleA Culture of Dogma
[This piece has begun appearing in newspapers in my conservative part of Virginia-- part of my strategy of "See the evil. Call it out. Press the Battle."*]In a healthy democracy, differing points of...
View ArticleAll Anyone Should Need to Know about Scott Walker
In America today, corporate profits are a larger portion of the GDP of the United States than at any time in our nation's history.In America today, the proportion of GDP that goes to workers' wages is...
View ArticleA Candidate Who Does Not Pander to Please
My wife, April Moore, is running for state senate in Virginia against the Republican incumbent, Mark Obenshain. (I referred here previously to Obenshain as "the man who would be Virginia's Scott...
View ArticleWhat's Taking Over America
[This is running as an op/ed in newspapers in my conservative part of Virginia.]We, the people of the United States, are losing control of our destiny to an untrustworthy power.It stands to reason that...
View ArticleStrike While the Donald is Hot
Today's Republican Party is a disgrace like nothing ever seen before at center stage of American politics. From 2001 to 2009, it gave us the most lawless presidency in the history of the nation, and...
View ArticleThe Civil War Was Lost. It's Time We Finally Won It.
In the wake of the Charleston church massacre, many complained that the national conversation got side-tracked into a debate over a mere historical artifact -- the Confederate Flag -- when it should...
View ArticleHow to Steal a Democracy
Imagine that you are a group of rich and powerful people eager to be still richer and more powerful. But you live in a democratic society that gives each citizen an equal vote and thus sets sets limit...
View ArticleTrump: An American Caesar
Like everyone else who pays attention to American politics, I have been thinking a lot about the astonishing rise to political prominence of Donald Trump. What a sad thing it is that our country is in...
View ArticleWhy Voters Think Trump's Act is Honest
This piece appeared in newspapers in my part of Virginia.According to a recent CBS poll, voters see Donald Trump as different from his opponents in the presidential race because he is candid. He says...
View ArticleIf I Were Bernie Sanders I'd Challenge Trump to a Duel
Well, not a duel exactly, but a one-on-one debate. I think it would be good for Bernie Sanders, it would be good for the Democratic Party, and it would be good for the political health of the American...
View ArticleA Sad Love Story: The Conservatives in My Area and Me
[This piece is appearing in newspapers in my conservative area in Virginia.]As far as I know, I’m the only liberal-leaning columnist who regularly writes with mostly conservative readers in mind....
View ArticleThe Strange Political Culture of Today's GOP
It now seems clear that the Iran deal will stand. So when Speaker of the House John Boehner declares, "Our fight to stop this bad deal, frankly, is just beginning," we confront again the strange nature...
View ArticleTwo Problems with Anti-Abortion Politics
[This piece is running in two installments in my conservative area of Virginia.] Part I: Demonizing Those Who Disagree A two-part message I'd like to give to pro-life activists: 1) More than many...
View ArticleWe Need a Different National Conversation
We Americans lurch, amazed, from one unprecedented political spectacle to another. We get all abuzz:Golly, look at that Trump phenomenon! Never seen anything like it. Imagine a guy talking with such...
View ArticleA Message of Optimism from a Veteran Raiser of the Alarm (Parts 1 & 2)
Recent developments bearing upon the contest for the Democratic nomination for President have revealed to me a possible political scenario by which the ongoing battle over America’s destiny – against...
View ArticleWill Hillary Be the Fighter We Need?
We Need a Democratic President Who is a FighterIt has been clear since W was president that something has gone seriously wrong in the United States. The central ingredients of this crisis can be...
View ArticleWhy Climate Change Should be a Conservative Issue
The following piece has run as an op/ed in newspapers in my conservative area of Virginia. My wife, April Moore, has been running for state senate in this area, and climate change is one of the issues...
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