Is "Senate Decorum" Compatible with Telling the Most Essential Truths in this...
Will the Democrats be allowed to tell the American people what is essential for them to know at this dangerous moment in American history?One part of that question — which has been the focus of...
View ArticleNo, Trump's Taking His Obstruction to Court Doesn't Give Him a Defense
On MSNBC this morning, former federal attorney Joyce Vance worried that Trump might have an out on the second Article of Impeachment, i.e. that Trump had taken to the courts to argue for his right to...
View ArticleIt May Not Be in the Democrats' Interest to Win Their Fight Over Witnesses...
It generally doesn’t bother me to have original thoughts. (Au contraire.) But in this instance, the fact that I’ve not come across anyone saying anything similar to what I argue here does give me...
View ArticleTime Soon to Shift the Spotlight from Trump's Evil to that of His Republican...
The Democrats should understand that this impeachment battle is part of a larger war. They are up against not only this Trump presidency, they are also up against this Trump Party. The Party whose rot...
View ArticleChallenging My Republican Op/Ed Readers: "Moment of Truth"
This piece is appearing in three newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). Many of the ideas contained here appeared also in the piece “Time Soon to Shiftthe Spotlight from Trump’s...
View ArticleThe Lie as a Tool in the Toolbox of Evil
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*****************I’m rather passionately devoted to the value of truth and truthfulness. I can reasonably say...
View ArticleI Sure as Hell Hope I Was Right About Losing on Witnesses Being Good for the...
Last Saturday I published here a piece titled “It May Not Be in the Democrats’ Interest to Win Their Fight Over Witnesses and Documents.” I made a case for that idea: i.e. that it’s good in their...
View ArticleCan Adam Schiff Have a Spot on the Democratic Ticket?
I’d like to preface these thoughts with this: It seems to me necessary that one of the people on the Democratic presidential ticket must be a woman. From which it would follow that if Adam Schiff were...
View ArticleThe Scenario I See for Elizabeth Warren
One dimension to my life’s work over the past 50 years has been to envision how good scenarios might come to pass, and to do what I could see to do to help those scenarios become reality. (I feel...
View ArticleDrawn to the Ways of the Dictator (Op/Ed Challenge to the Conservatives)
This piece is appearing in several newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************** It could be America’s greatest contribution to human civilization: the idea that the rulers...
View ArticleMaybe It's Time for the House Judiciary Committee to Deal with the AG Barr...
The history of my writing about William Barr’s appointment as Attorney General includes a big wrong guess and, later, a strategic recommendation that wasn’t tried.My wrong guess derived from my finding...
View ArticleTo Romney: Come Back at Trump's Questioning Your Religious Sincerity
This would be another national service— responding in some appropriate way to how Donald Trump called you a liar about your “oath to God.” It would help people see something.“Another” because it was a...
View ArticleRun Against Trump NOW! (How I'd Advise a 2020 Dem Candidate to Get the...
All the polling indicates that what the Democratic electorate wants above all in its 2020 presidential nominee is the ability to go up against Donald Trump and defeat him in the November election.And...
View ArticleWhy the Ideological Differences Among the Democratic 2020 Candidates Are Well...
What the great majority of Democrats want — above all! — in their presidential nominee is the ability to defeat Donald Trump.And surely that is the right priority: Donald Trump has shown clearly that...
View ArticleHow Cowardice Enabled Trump to Defeat the Rule of Law
fagWe rightly celebrate those who, in this moment of peril to American democracy, have stepped forward to show courage and integrity in the current struggle against a lawless President. (Most recently...
View ArticleIt Is Truly Good News: The Fight Continues
Things are better than I’ve been thinking lately.Lately, my thinking has focused a lot on the idea that Donald Trump has defeated “the rule of law” in a way altogether unprecedented in American...
View ArticleThe Idea We Democrats Should Unify Around re the 2020 Nomination
It should be agreed by all Democrats: If any candidate appears to be significantly more likely to defeat Trump than any of the others, that candidate should be the nominee. And we agree that we will...
View ArticleThe Pernicious Meaning of Trump's Pardoning Prominent People
Donald Trump has just issued pardons for several people we’ve all heard of. One was once the Governor of Illinois. One was New York’s police commissioner, and nearly became head of Homeland Security....
View ArticleKos's Dangerous Certainty
I’ve appreciated many of Kos’s recent writings on the Democratic race. I have agreed with him on Elizabeth Warren’s appeal. And it seems that we would agree that if we could appoint the next President...
View ArticleShouldn't It Give Bernie Supporters Considerable Pause That...
To avoid repeating myself unduly, I will just state here the basic premise: that getting the powers of the Presidency out of the hands of that would-be-dictator, Donald Trump, is THE central and...
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