The Kavanaugh/Garland Contrast Reveals the Democrats' Profound "Awakening" --...
[Part I of this two-part piece, posted here yesterday, used the contrast between the Democrats' conduct during two recent Supreme Court confirmation dramas -- the first, at the time of the Republican...
View ArticleThe American People Are the Jury
This piece is running in newspapers in my very red district (VA-06).*********************The one Manafort juror to go public, Paula Duncan, was a strong supporter of President Trump. She voted for him...
View ArticleHow Should a Nation Deal with an Illegitimate Election?
Preamble:I listened to a panel of some of the usual MSNBC legal experts discussing the question of how much threat to President Trump either of his two recent "flippers" poses, Michael Cohen and Paul...
View ArticlePoetic Justice: How Democrats Might Make a Kavanaugh Confirmation Backfire on...
As of this writing, the futures market deems it exactly a 50-50 proposition whether Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed. My hope, of course, is that he will not: this man quite evidently -- and in...
View ArticleTalk One Way, Walk the Other: The Epidemic of Hypocrisy in Conservative America
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red District (VA-06).***********************Is there much doubt whether people -- if they were asked whether they’d rather live in a nation in which...
View ArticleThat Which Unites/Divides Us: A Contact with a Man on the Right
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).********************************When I published, a few weeks ago, a piece with the title “Why Class Reunions Are...
View ArticleWhy I Believe the Futures Markets Wrong in Downgrading the Dems' Midterm...
It galls me that the consequence of the whole sordid Kavanaugh affair is that not only do the shameless Republicans get to put this creep onto the Supreme Court but they also enhance their prospects...
View ArticleExplaining Why Anti-Semitism has Been an Endemic Sickness in our Civilization
This piece is occasioned by the recent anti-Semitic attack of vandalism in Fairfax, Virginia, the state in which I live. That attack reinforces the disturbing anti-Semitic dimensions of the neo-Nazi,...
View ArticleA Party of Cheaters (My Latest Challenge to the People in My Red...
This piece has appeared in newspapers in my very red District (VA-06).*************************When I was a kid, I spent nearly every moment I could playing sandlot pick-up baseball games with kids in...
View ArticleMueller's (Misplaced?) Caution and Trump's Rising Approval Ratings
Have you wondered why it is that the percentage of Americans approving of the job Trump has been doing as President has been slowly rising?It's not that he's stopped being the wrecking ball, sleazebag,...
View ArticleDon't Choose Hatred (My Latest Challenge to the Conservatives)
This piece will be running, over this coming week, in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06)*************************What President Trump is doing with that Caravan of people moving...
View ArticleDems Should Speak Out Now to Block this Newest Threat from Trump
I drafted this piece on Tuesday, the day before the pipe-bomb story broke. On Tuesday, the "Now" in the title seemed right. But waiting seems now to be in order: changing the subject would likely be a...
View ArticleKarma Strikes Trump
The numbers have lately taken a turn in a Blue direction: Trump approval numbers, down; chances of a Democratic House majority, up. It seems this past week's news of hate and violence has moved opinion...
View ArticleIt's OK to Let Trump Pick the Fights. Just Win Them.
I've come across some recent talk in circles of liberal commentary to the effect that we -- and particularly the media -- should not let Trump change the subject, control the conversation. (Like with...
View ArticleBad Weather on Election Day Usually Helps GOP. Why This Time May be Different.
I admit it. It increases my stress to read the weather forecast for the U.S. on Election Day. "Storms are forecast in some of the key battleground states for senators and governors, including West...
View ArticleVote for Checks and Balances (My Pre-Election Op/Ed Message to My District)
This piece has run this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************Vote for Checks and BalancesWe can know how America’s founders would want for us...
View ArticleProtect the Nation: Checking the President and Preventing a Trumpian Civil War
Yesterday, the American people gave the Democrats a mandate to act as a check on this lawless President.Today, the Washington Post reports that this shameless man in the Oval Office declared that "he...
View Article“Freedom of Religion” Can’t Mean Imposing One’s Religion on Others
This piece has appeared this week in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************************I agree with a lot of people on the right about the great importance of...
View ArticleI'd Love to Be a Fly on Mueller's and Rosenstein's Walls
I do not claim to be a legal expert, and I don't even play one on TV. But I do read and watch legal experts, and from what I've gathered, Trump's firing of Jeff Sessions and appointment of Matt...
View ArticleThe Key Role of Public Opinion in the Gathering Trump War
Two years ago last Friday -- November 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the presidency -- like millions of other Americans, I felt that my country had entered into a dark and dangerous place.But I, for...
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