Trump's Impeachment: Not Just This or That "High Crime," But His Utter...
Presenting here one important foundation-stone for my campaign to move the Democrats toward dealing more effectively with the Trump Crisis.The situation we're in I see as follows: the "Trump Crisis"...
View ArticleThe Profound Sickness of Spirit Pervading American Politics
This piece has appeared and will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district, VA-06.********************************A review of the major misjudgments I’ve made in recent years...
View ArticleIs There Any Justification for Mueller's Withholding?
Please tell me, am I missing something?Is there any legitimate and compelling reason -- justification -- for Mueller testifying as he did in so constricted a fashion, going out of his way not even to...
View ArticleThe Main Thing We Need in Our 2020 Nominee
There's no doubt in my mind that when historians look at what's going on now in the American political realm, they will say that hands down the main drama was what might be called the "Trump Crisis."Of...
View ArticleDelaying Impeachment Has Only Hurt the Democrats (and the Nation)
Here I'm going to simply assume the point I've argued many times before: that the impeachment of this utterly lawless President is -- and has long been obvious to be -- a necessity. (One recent such...
View Article“Who Are They Serving?” A Theme for Democrats to Use Against Republicans...
Republicans Routinely Betray Their SupportersA major theme of the campaign of my wife, April Moore, running against incumbent Republican Mark Obenshain for the Virginia State Senate, is posing to the...
View ArticleCan the Endangered Species Act Require Action on Climate Change?
A recent article reported that a federal court -- the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals -- has revoked a permit for a pipeline across Virginia because that permit had been issued through a process that...
View ArticleThe Way I'd Like to See Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Compete Tonight
I just read in an op/ed by David Leonhardt with the title, "What I'll Be Looking for Tonight." It contains some commentary about Warren and Sanders -- who face off tonight -- fighting for the further...
View ArticleContradictory Statistics Regarding Trump's 2020 Chances
A couple different bits of statistic paint contradictory pictures of the likelihood of the disaster of a second Trump term. On the one hand, the futures market (Predictit.org) gives Trump a 47% chance...
View ArticleTrump's Stream of Lies Should Be Reason Enough to Remove Him
I wrote this piece back in February, and then waited for the right time to go public. Back then, I was expecting a far more powerful impetus -- from both Mueller and the Democrats -- to bring this...
View ArticleHere's How the 2020 Race for the Nomination Looks to Me (summed up in two...
It will come down to Biden and Warren. And we should hope that by the time choices need to be made, Elizabeth Warren will have demonstrated that she, not Biden, is the person most sure to beat Trump.
View ArticleThe Trump Crisis Intensifies with a Confluence of Events
There is the old point of confrontation (the issue of impeachment) and the new, or newly escalated (inciting hate crimes). How will all this play out?The issue of impeachment has been gathering steam...
View ArticleWhat Shapes Our World: I. Evolution (First of a Three-Part Series)
I am publishing in the Lynchburg, Virginia, newspaper -- the News & Advance -- a three-part series, under the theme, "What Shapes Our World."The purpose of this series is to present three ideas...
View ArticleIs the Care Congresswoman Spanberger (VA-07) Takes Not to Offend Trump...
An Exchange Between Andy Schmookler and Right-wing Radio Host John FredericksA piece appeared on Blue Virginia lately, by Lowell Feld, with the title, "Right-Wing Host Mischaracterizes Rep....
View ArticleWilliam Barr and the Death of Jeffrey Epstein
(Epstein Barr isn't just a virus anymore.)I've long been leary of the frequent practice of holding high officials responsible for things that go wrong many levels below them in the agency of which they...
View ArticleCivics Education and Today's American Crisis
This will be my op/ed for the coming week in my very red congressional district (VA-06). That it was mostly from conservatives that one heard about the need for more "civics" education played into my...
View ArticleThe Clock Strikes 13 at the NRA
This will be my newspaper op/ed for the coming week in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************The NRA and its CEO Wayne LaPierre have been in the news lately for things other...
View ArticleHow We Come to Our Beliefs (Evidence vs. Authority, and the Climate Change...
This piece will be my newspaper opinion piece for the coming week in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************************(Almost everything we humans do, as cultural creatures, is...
View ArticleTrump, Mass Killings, Deaths of Despair: All Expressions of a Nihilistic...
An excellent column by Thomas Edsall in the New York Times presents an illuminating article by three political scientists, calling attention to a portion of the American electorate that is motivated by...
View ArticleWhat Shapes Our World: II. The Reign of Power
What Shapes Our World: II. The Reign of Power (Second in a three part series on “What Shapes Our World.” The first was on “Evolution.” The next one will be on “Good Battling Evil.”) Why History Is Not...
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