The “Deep Values” Question (My Latest Challenge to the Conservatives)
This is my op/ed piece for this week, appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************************In 2012, when I was 65, I embarked on a quest I never expected...
View ArticleThe Democrats and the Impeachment Question: Worrisome Signs
I lately wrote:I would think that it would be perfectly obvious that if one party in a two-party nation became progressively more disgraceful and destructive, while at the same time becoming ever more...
View ArticleQuestioning What Pelosi Is Saying About Impeachment
In recent times, like a lot of Democrats, I've been impressed with the leadership being provided by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. So it gives me no pleasure to take issue with her.But I think...
View ArticleTo Those Conservatives Who Hate Me (Op/Ed in My Very Red District-- VA-06)
I learned the other day about some conservatives who hate me for what I write. My op/ed messages, I heard, so infuriated a few people that they canceled their subscription to a newspaper to protest my...
View Article"Justice Delayed is Justice Denied," Or, Can't the United States Protect...
From Wikipedia:"Justice delayed is justice denied" is a legal maxim meaning that if legal redress is available for a party that has suffered some injury, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion, it...
View ArticleHow to Help in the Battle, Running in a Very Red District
My wife, April Moore, is running for the Virginia State Senate against a Republican incumbent, Mark Obenshain. She’s running with the intention of making an impact that makes a difference— taking into...
View ArticleWill Trump Get Away With Stonewalling Congress Where Nixon Didn't?
On Wednesday evening, Rachel Maddow did a segment on the way the Trump administration is completely stonewalling all of the congressional requests for documents. The administration is simply ignoring...
View ArticleBewildered by the One Substantive Thing We've Learned So Far about the...
I am struggling to understand how it can be that Robert Mueller's investigation has apparently led to zero indictments of Americans for criminally conspiring with Russians during the election.That...
View ArticleFor the first time, I’m Wondering About Bob Mueller
The Right apparently believes the Mueller Report is a vindication for their side. I can see why they’d think that. But I see it differently. I realize I could be wrong, but what the conclusion of this...
View ArticleWanted: An Effective Democratic Counter to Republican Demonization
It's been going on for a long time: Republicans identify some Democrat as a threat to their power, and they go all out to smear them, to besmirch their character, to make much of America regard them as...
View ArticleMuch Less Than Vindication (Op/ed for the newspapers in my very red...
When I wrote the piece“For the First Time, I’m Wondering About Bob Mueller” on Monday, it was before I'd heard former AG Eric Holder explain what Mueller was likely intending (i.e. for his evidence to...
View ArticleEncouraging Signs at the End of a Painful Post-Mueller Week
Last weekend -- when the Mueller Report concluded without indictments regarding the Trump campaign collaborating with the Russians in crime, and when Barr released his 4-page letter -- hit me pretty...
View ArticleCan the Democrats Find Their Churchill for 2020?
When we look at the absolutely crucial role that Churchill played -- from the time Hitler arose in Germany to the time that Hitler’s evil empire had been destroyed -- we see an image of what we need in...
View ArticleSex and Civilized Societies
I haven’t decided yet whether or not to run this piece as one of my weekly op/eds in my conservative district (VA-06).***********************************Years ago, I framed a radio conversation with...
View ArticleIs the Spirit of Enmity the Solution to the Mystery? (My latest challenge to...
This is my weekly op/ed to run in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*************************Republicans might usefully ask themselves: “With whom – outside of the Republican camp – does our...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need the Mueller Report to Know. We’ve Witnessed the Crime.
There are good reasons to care about getting the Mueller Report released to its intended audience—to the Congress, and thence to the American people.But we – the American people -- don’t need the...
View ArticleThe Barr Mystery: Why Would Someone Seek Out a Chance to Disgrace Himself?
Now that William Barr is acting -- rather openly, if not admittedly -- as Donald Trump’s accomplice in the obstruction of justice, I find myself baffled by the man.For a while, around the time of...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg Shows Democrats How-- Rightly Choosing Truth-telling Over...
An exchange between Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and George Stephanopoulos (reported in a recent Huffington Post article) brings into clear relief an issue that America has long...
View ArticleConservatism in the Age of Trump (My latest challenge to the conservatives)
This is my weekly op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***************************The Ideal of the ConservativePicture the man or the woman who embodies the virtues of the good...
View ArticleShould William Barr Be Impeached?
Yesterday, I wrote about the possibility of impeaching William Barr. My thought at the time was to use that threat in case Barr's redactions were another phase of Barr's obstructive operations to...
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