The Significance of Sharpiegate
I'm considering making this my weekly op/ed for the newspapers in my very red -- Trump-supporting -- congressional district (VA-06).************************I thought that too much was being made of...
View ArticleWhy So Many More British Tories Than America's Republicans Acted From Principle
When recently almost two dozen Tory (Conservative) members of Parliament turned against their Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, over their disapproval of his conduct over Brexit, a number of American...
View ArticleDems Should Stop Speaking of a Senate Acquittal as a Given
I welcome the news last night that House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler had broken new ground in his statements on the question of Trump's impeachment. Having dealt in 'maybes' for months, Nadler came...
View Article1974: “The System Worked”—2019: ?
Forty-five years ago, when the Watergate scandal had led at last to President Nixon’s resigning from the presidency, rather than face certain impeachment and removal from office, it was said by many,...
View ArticleThat This President Can Run for a Second Term is a Blot on the Nation's History
This piece might be regarded as a companion of another recent piece, “Democrats Should Stop Speaking of Senate Acquittal as a Given.” Both articles are directed at the question, "How should Democrats...
View ArticleI'd Thought Mitt Romney Might Become the Republican Voice the Nation Needs
I've said before that, throughout this darkening error, the mistakes I've made have all been in the direction of being overly optimistic about how the players would behave. Particularly players on the...
View ArticleWill Democrats Now Finally Protect the Nation?
Only the Democratic Party is in a position to protect the nation from the palpable danger into which the Trump Crisis has placed us. I am hopeful, but I also worry. I worry because it is far from clear...
View ArticleThe Place of Ukraine-gate in the Whole Impeachment Saga
This latest scandal – the combination of evidence and admissions concerning how the President sought to get the government of Ukraine to dig up (or more likely, manufacture) dirt on a major political...
View ArticleA President Who Threatens the Nation with Civil War? What More Proof Can...
The Ukraine transcript showed clearly that Donald Trump, President of the United States, is all out to serve himself even at the expense of the interests and security of the United States.Now, with an...
View ArticleImpeachment Fits Right into a Dynamite 2020 Democratic Campaign
The Ukraine-gate development has broken the Democrats’ logjam over impeachment. But the reality is that impeachment was always much more of a political opportunity for the Democrats than a political...
View ArticleSadly, Biden Has Just Proved Again Why He's Not the Leader We Need
For what it’s worth, I’ve always liked Joe Biden. But we’re engaged in a battle for our democracy, and what we need in our leader now is a lot more than likeability. We need someone who can lead us to...
View ArticleHatred and Brokenness in the Time of Trump
This piece will be running as an op/ed in my very red — Republican, conservative, religious — congressional district in Virginia (VA-06).****************I expect that we’d nearly all agree that love...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Forthcoming Piece, "Roots of the Problems Between Men and...
I am preparing to go public with a piece that I've written. And it is with some trepidation. This would not be the first time I've ventured to share some of my thoughts about the relationship between...
View ArticleRoots of the Problems Between Men and Women
Yesterday I published an “Introduction to the Forthcoming Piece, ‘Roots of the Problems Between Men and Women.’ “ I posted that introduction because it was with some trepidation that I waded into such...
View Article"You Conservatives Must Work Hard Not to See Trump's Lawlessness" (My Latest...
This is my newspaper op/ed for this week in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************“Above the Law”?One hears often lately about how America’s founders sought to assure that...
View ArticleTwo Interpretations of Trump's Syria Debacle, Both Threats to Our Security
This piece has run as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06)******************If all we knew about Trump’s presidency was the manner in which he withdrew American forces from...
View ArticleOf Course There Should Be a Second Brexit Referendum!
I’ve been following the Brexit drama in the UK pretty closely since it passed in 2016. To me, it has seemed clear that the result of the referendum in which the British electorate voted -— by a 52-48...
View ArticleThe Role of DEFIANCE in the Rise and Fall of Donald Trump
The recent moves of Donald Trump have brought to my mind the guns-blazing way many an old gangster movie comes to its climax. In those movies, the head gangster (played perhaps by James Cagney) is at...
View ArticlePower-Drunk Trump Has Undone Himself
In that infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, Trump said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” This captures an essential part of Trump’s worldview and modus operandi: what you can do – what you can...
View ArticleHow Can Lindsey Graham Stand Himself
Chronology of a mere handful of days:Act I: Senator Lindsey Graham tells an interviewer, “"If you could show me that, you know, Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call,...
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