Mitch McConnell's Intimate Relationship With Stupidity
When Senators Chris Coons and Jeff Flake introduced a measure yesterday in the Senate to provide legal protection for the Mueller investigation, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stepped in to...
View ArticleGoodlatte's Heir: Another Justice-Obstructing Party Hack
The following is from my wife, April Moore, who in 2015 was the Democratic nominee for the Virginia State Senate seat now held by Republican Mark Obenshain, who came within a whisker in 2013 of winning...
View ArticleTrump Supporters -- How Can People Believe the Unbelievable?
This piece has appeared in newspapers in my very red congressional District (VA-06).*************************It is a genuine psychological mystery—so many people believing the incredible. Here’s just...
View ArticleMaking the Republicans Pay for Their Evils
On the Rachel Maddow show for Wednesday, November 15, she had a segment on the Republican playbook in which they shout "Fraud" -- with no basis -- when an election (or election process) isn't going...
View ArticleStacey Abrams Shows the Democrats How It’s Done
I’ve been writing of late — e.g. here (“The Key Role of Public Opinion in the Gathering Trump War”)and here (“Making the Republicans Pay for Their Evils”) -- about the need for the Democrats to develop...
View ArticleDid a Loss of Sexual Powers Make Trump More Evil?
I'm surprised to find myself thinking about Trump's sex life-- and not a propos of his violating campaign laws with illegal pay-offs, and not just for the prurient purposes that sell tabloids (and so...
View ArticleAmerica Richer, Americans Poorer (A Challenge to the GOP Base)
This piece appeared in October in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************I’m writing this while sitting at the main train station in Vienna, Austria. When I visited...
View ArticleWhy Impeachment Will Be a Must, and a Political Winner, Regardless of the Senate
I hope the Democrats in the House are clear-eyed about this: the time will surely come for impeachment hearings. (Not instead of doing all the positive things for the American people – on health care,...
View ArticleThe One Good Thing About Evil (Another challenging message to the conservatives)
This piece is running in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************Despite all the damage that “evil” does to the world, evil does have one important redeeming...
View ArticleHow Can Anyone Take Seriously What House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Says?
Today, Bob Goodlatte — Chair of the House Judiciary Committee (R-VA) --tweeted this:"The truth IS best served with transparency. What is Director Comey trying to hide from the American people with his...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Relationship with the Future (Another Challenge to the...
This piece is appearing this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*****************************How one regards the future presents a clear window into one’s soul:How well...
View ArticleAn Opportune Moment to Hit Trump on Climate Change
An Opportune Moment As the picture of the gathering climate crisis gets ever more grave, and the inadequacy of the response to this greatest challenge ever faced by humankind grows ever clearer, the...
View ArticleAre the Democrats Up to the Trump Task at Hand?
In some important ways, the Democrats are approaching this upcoming impeachment process properly. Because not enough of the American people can yet see the necessity of it. There's got to be a learning...
View ArticleRural Is Red, Urban Is Blue—Why Is That? (My latest op/ed in my red district)
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my red congressional district (VA-06).*******************The recent election in the United States showed a divide between rural areas, which tend to be more...
View ArticleMistaking Things for Their Opposites (Another Challenge to the Conservatives)
This is my column for this week appearing in newspapers in my very red Congressional District (VA-06).***********************In a previous column, I described how mystified I am about how a lot of...
View ArticleThe Pain and the Value of Our Rude Awakening in These Times
It may be my very favorite book, and I'm reading it once again. It is titled The World of Yesterday, and it was written soon after the beginning of World War II by Stefan Zweig.Zweig was an Austrian...
View ArticleComing to Terms with “All Men Are Mortal”
I came upon something the other day that I feel moved to share even though it is off topic for this forum.I thought it worth sharing because -- in addition to this being a time of year, approaching New...
View ArticleThe View from Trump World (My latest challenge to the conservatives)
This is appearing as an op/ed this week in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**********************“To us Trump supporters, it is amazing how so many people can be wrong about so...
View ArticlePresenting the Climate Change Issue as "Investing in our Infrastructure"
And here's the pitch: Just as we spend a lot of money every year to repair our roads and bridges, so we also need to invest in maintaining the climate. For the climate is an even more basic part of the...
View ArticleWhoopi, While Critiquing Ocasio-Cortez, Commits Typical Liberal Error
An article on Huffington Post, bearing the title "Whoopi Goldberg Tells Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to 'Sit Still' and 'Learn the Job,'" is worth reading for its inadvertent demonstration of a defect one...
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