How Biden Can Defeat Republican Obstructionism
The premise of everything should be:The nation has problems. It is our job to solve them.The nation has needs. It is our job to meet them.Those should be kept in the focus of the American people...
View ArticleJust Say No to Obstructionism
This piece will be running this week as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***********************Just Say No to ObstructionismPerceptive political observers seem unanimous...
View ArticleWhich Path for America Will Republican Voters Choose (My Challenge This Week...
This piece is in today’s NORTHERN VIRGINIA DAILY (the northern part of the rural and conservative Shenandoah Valley) and in tomorrow’s NEW & ADVANCE (the newspaper of Lynchburg, VA)— both parts of...
View ArticleThoughts on Netanyahu, as the Regrettable Face of the World's Only Jewish State
A friend of mine, who is Israeli, expressed his amazement at how long the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been able to stay in power.I responded with my own impressions of how “Bibi”...
View ArticleWhen Bad Things Have Beneficial Results: The Case of the Invasion of the Capitol
It is certainly true, as our incoming President declared, that Wednesday was a dark day in American history. It is certainly true that the conduct of a President of the United States inciting sedition...
View ArticleCan Biden Be Safely Inaugurated on the Capitol Steps in this Political Moment?
I’d really like to know, and I’m really asking.Is there a level of threat that exceeds the ability of security people to protect against?If we imagine that the threat of violence to undo the...
View Article"You've Been Lied To": The Need to Dry Up the Reservoir from Which the...
The attack on the Capitol won’t be the only bitter fruit harvested from the attack by Trump and his enablers on our constitutional order. The intelligence indicates more attacks likely lie ahead.The...
View ArticleWhat Should the Impeachment Trial Achieve?
It was often said, as Trump’s first impeachment trial loomed, that there were two juries: the jury of the Senate, and the jury of the American people.That’s true again this time, and it is not clear to...
View ArticleI Hope Biden Addresses the Election Lie in His Inaugural Address
One might describe the purpose of a new President’s Inaugural Address to be inspiring the people of the nation to follow his leadership. The need of the United States both for good leadership and for a...
View ArticleA Biblical Lesson for Mike Pence
This piece is appearing tomorrow as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).********************I feel for Mike Pence, as I think about all that he did for four years and how...
View ArticleVoter Suppression: More About Pure Plutocratic Power than about Race
When Trump went after the votes in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit, many on the anti-Trump side decried the racist intent: Trump was trying to disenfranchise voters of color.When the...
View ArticleTwo Optimistic Predictions about America's Political Future
This piece will also be appearing this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06), but without “Optimistic” in the title.************************Though I rarely feel I see the...
View ArticleThe Moral Imperative of Democrats Remaining United
A clear understanding of the situation in the United States today makes it clear why the Democrats need to commit to acting in union, once the way forward has been decided by a deliberative process in...
View ArticleThe Lie as a Tool in the Toolbox of Evil
This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************Previously, I defined “Evil” as a “coherent force” that consistently spreads “a...
View Article“Truth” As Whatever the Group Agrees to Claim is True
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************There are two reasons I’ve been preoccupied with how the majority of the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Big Opportunity – If We Don’t Squander It
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*********************Biden has surprised me.I’ve been aware of Joe Biden since the 1980s,...
View ArticleManchin and the Filibuster: How’s It Going to Go?
The filibuster and the fate of the nationOrdinarily, the question of “How will this particular Senator vote on this particular issue?” is of limited significance. But, conceivably, in the case of how...
View ArticleThe Israeli Version of the Corrupt Ruler Problem (in the wake of last week's...
Israel has just had it’s fourth election in two years, and it makes quite clear that Israel suffers from the something quite akin to what the United States was afflicted with very recently: its most...
View ArticleNeglected Infrastructure and Burdensome Student Debt: America's Failure to...
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed piece in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************Infrastructure is investing.President Biden has proposed some big programs—like for...
View ArticleUnder the Banner of “Life’s Flourishing”
One might say that the big drama on this planet has been one of “the Living and the Dead.” The earth started out lifeless, and then something special happened: life arose.An amazing grace: Once was...
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