How Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Could Be Made into Good News -- Part I
An old Sufi tale tells of how, in one episode after another, what seems at first like good news turns out to bring misfortune, and what seems like bad news turns out to be beneficial.So it might be in...
View ArticleA Presumption of Guilt
It is a virtue of the American legal system that any defendant is "presumed innocent" until convicted in a court of law. To affirm that this is the basis on which any accused should be tried in court...
View ArticleGetting the GOP Rats to Go Down with the Sinking Trump Ship
Part I of this series, with the subtitle Terrible, Yes. But Compared to What?, argued that the disaster of Trump's being elected should be compared with the alternative, i.e. Hillary's having won. And...
View ArticleIt Came to Me Who Should Be the Democratic Nominee for President in 2020
The other day, it came to me who might be the right choice to be the Democratic Nominee for President in 2020—especially if the opponent is the impeached-in-the-House, but not-convicted-in-the-Senate...
View ArticleA "Patriots Must Vote Democratic" Tour by Prominent Lifelong Republicans
In my series on "How Trump's Catastrophic Presidency Could Be Made into Good News," I have been arguing that the Democrats should be making their campaign in the 2018 midterms about the need for the...
View ArticleHow Far Would Trump Go If He Could? (My Latest Challenge to the Conservatives)
This piece is running this week in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*************************When I was growing up, we kids were admonished not to take for granted our blessings...
View ArticleRepublicans Telling Republicans: "This Year, Nation Ahead of Party"
This is the second half of a piece of which the first half -- “A ‘Vote Democratic to Save Our Democracy’ Tour (by Prominent, Lifelong Republicans” -- -- introduced an idea that might help magnify the...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi is Great. Here's Why She Should Be Replaced.
Granted, the first job is to win control of the House. Granted, chickens should not be counted before they're hatched. But despite both those points, it is also true that thinking and planning ahead is...
View ArticleBob Goodlatte, Worse Than I Thought
I spent 20 months (in 2011-12) running against Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA06). So naturally I gave a lot of thought to the man, trying to see him clearly and understand what made him tick.What I came to...
View ArticleThe Cult of Personality and the Danger to America
This piece has lately run in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***********************Back during the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump himself seemed genuinely surprised by the nature...
View ArticleDangerous Steps Backward for Humankind (My Latest Challenge to the...
This piece is has run in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***************************It was back in the 70s when I found my life’s path. It grew out of a deep concern about...
View ArticleAn Invitation to National Democratic Leaders-- and a Two-Fer for the Party
The most pressing political task now facing us -- "us" meaning all Democrats, and indeed all Americans who understand the current threat to American democracy -- is to obtain a Blue Wave as massive as...
View ArticleConfronting the Emerging Threat to the Mueller Investigation: An Interim AG
For well over a year, we've watched Donald Trump's almost continuous efforts to kill the investigation being conducted into his campaign, his inner circle, his presidency, and himself. Now Trump's big...
View ArticleTim Kaine's Superb Speech Illuminates Why All Americans Should Want a Blue Wave
Last night, Senator Tim Kaine delivered a speech at the annual Labor Day Banquet of the Democratic Party in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County (Virginia). He knocked the ball out of the park.The speech...
View ArticleAnonymous + Corker = Ad to Magnify the Blue Wave
An Unfit President As everyone presumably now knows, the New York Times published yesterday an op/ed by an anonymous "senior official" in the Trump administration.At one level, the portrait of...
View ArticleProposing A National Ad Campaign Using Tim Kaine and His “For All” Speech to...
Virginia’s Senator Tim Kaine is special in a way that connects with the heart of today’s political battle.That creates an opportunity that the Democratic Party should seize: to make use of Tim Kaine in...
View ArticleObama's Singing the Right Song: Other National Dems Should Soon Sing Back-Up
A few weeks ago, I published a piece here calling for national Democratic leaders to come forward to maximize the Blue Wave by delivering a message of their choice to the nation.Many Americans do not...
View ArticleHow the Removal of Donald Trump from Office Has Become More Likely
Four main ingredients go into this stew:1) The combined revelations of the Woodward book and the anonymous op/ed seem to have had an impact. Both testify to the dangerous unfitness of Donald Trump to...
View ArticleDeep Divisions Among the American People
This piece is running in newspapers in my very red congressional District (VA-06).*****************************When I was running for Congress in 2012 (in VA-06), a very nice couple who lived among the...
View ArticleThe Kavanaugh/Garland Contrast Reveals the Democrats' Profound "Awakening" --...
A NECESSARY CHANGE OF SPIRITThe spirit of Liberal America has undergone a profound transformation. Millions of American citizens in Liberal America, and in the Democratic Party, are now in a state of...
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