“Press the Battle”* Is Still the Message for the Democrats
I wrote the following piece late yesterday afternoon. Then in the evening I heard news that may -- or may not, we will see -- make my argument here moot. I will present that news below, as an...
View ArticleMoral Exo-Skeletons and Endo-Skeletons: A Key Divide in the American Body...
This article appeared on my own blog and in the journal The Humanist in 2006*************In the months after the 2004 election, when the Red States were said to have voted on the basis of their "moral...
View ArticleLooking Back at Bill Clinton—Such a Mixed Picture!
Until his Presidency became deeply mired in scandal, in 1998, Bill Clinton had done a rather good job as President of the United States.Peace and prosperity (partly due to Clinton, if also just the...
View ArticleA Better Human Story # 7-- How Seeing "A Force of Evil" Changed My Life
You can find the earlier entries in this series here.*********(This piece could also be called "The Pay-Off for Taking on This 'Integrative Vision': Part II.)************In the previous installment, I...
View ArticleThis Leak Cries Out “25th Amendment”!
It's not news that the Trump White House leaks like a sieve.It is not (publicly) known who the leakers are. But it is often possible to infer why a given leak is leaked. Brother Scaramucci probably had...
View ArticleAre We Stuck with Jeff Sessions, AG?
Not long ago, as all will recall, President Trump was badmouthing his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.Many rallied to warn off the President from firing Sessions. This included Democrats, because...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Stole the Court — Liberals Shouldn’t Shut Up About It
The Call to Battle:A major crime has been committed in the United States, in plain sight, and the criminals are getting away with it.The Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat and, with it, the Supreme...
View ArticleI Never Would Have Thought It Possible (What the Propagandists of the Right...
This piece has appeared in newspapers in my very conservative congressional District (VA-06).************Over the past generation, the political right in America has accomplished something quite...
View ArticleThe Why of "White Supremacy"
This piece is appearing this week in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06)*********************It is not difficult to see that a phenomenon like “white supremacy” represents a...
View ArticleIs Abuse of the Pardon Power an Impeachable Offense?
This coming Tuesday, our grotesque President is scheduled to go to Phoenix for one of his campaign-style (I was tempted to say Nuremberg-style) rallies.President Trump has already indicated that he's...
View ArticleBetter Human Story #8-- Prepare for the Best
You can find the earlier entries in this series here.******************In a comment on installment # 5 – the entry in this series that presented “the parable of the tribes – I was asked to “delineate...
View ArticleCan One-Third of Americans Approve Trump's Assault on the Rule of Law?
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very conservative district (VA--06). In the wake of the pardon of the unrepentant former Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, there’s no need to mince words: Donald...
View ArticlePuzzled by Supporters of Trump
This piece will be running this week in newspapers in my very conservative congressional District (VA-06).*******************Where I Went WrongIn the fall of 2015, I made two predictions: 1) that...
View ArticleRelating to the One-Third of Our Countrymen Who Support the Atrocity that is...
On a piece posted earlier today, I asked how so many "decent people" can approve of Trump (and in particular can approve of Trump's "insistence on conflict").One response to that particular phrase...
View ArticleHow Evil Can Become Dominant in a Democracy
The Teeter Totter ImageSurely it must be clear that in America, over the past generation, the power of destructive forces has increased. The fact that a man like Donald Trump could be elected president...
View ArticleThe Sacred Space of Lovers -- the Op/Ed
This is the piece I wrote about toward the end of the article I posted here yesterday. It's a piece that ran in the Lynchburg newspaper, the News & Advance, and will run in a couple of other...
View ArticleA Better Human Story #9 - Understanding Evil
[You can find the earlier entries in this series here.] Understanding Evil The effort to understand evil has a long history in our civilization.At a minimum, people have felt a need to be able to...
View ArticleTrump On NFL -- Provoking Beneficial Anti-Bodies in the American Body Politic
Donald Trump in the presidency represents many things-- most of those that come to mind are bad. He is a threat to our democracy, he is a threat to world peace, he's a threat to the environment, he is...
View ArticleIsn’t It “Conservative” to Care About American Norms?
Here is the latest of my op/eds addressed to the conservative readership of the newspapers in my congressional district (VA-06).****************************As I’ve said here before, I am struggling to...
View ArticleI’d Run Against Roy Moore as “an Enemy of the Constitution”
As everyone presumably now knows, Judge Roy Moore will be the Republican nominee for Senator from the very red state of Alabama. The general belief is that it is that Moore will win in November but,...
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