Why the DOJ Must Appeal the Corrupt Decision by the Trumpian Judge
I’ll not try to describe everything that’s terrible about the decision handed down by Trump-appointed, Trump-shopped federal Judge Aileen Cannon. Legal experts from every place on the ideological map...
View ArticleWho Would Kill for Money? (The Darkness in the American Corporate World)
This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06)************************A clue about a dark Spirit lies in this troubling pattern: Whenever a big...
View ArticleWhy I'm Betting the 11th Circuit Will Do the Right Thing (Judge Cannon is a...
The DOJ offered Judge (Loose) Cannon a life-line: back of the important atrocity in your ruling (or we’ll take the matter over your head). She didn’t take the opportunity to clean up the mess she made,...
View ArticleThe Vital Importance of the Coming Showdown (Trump vs. the Forces of the Rule...
This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in newspapers of my very red congressional district (VA-06) this week.***************************A showdown is coming between Donald Trump and the Force of the...
View ArticleNot EVEN a President, but ESPECIALLY a President Must Be Held Accountable2
This piece is a sequel to the piece I published here several days ago — The Vital Importance of the Coming Showdown (Trump vs. the Forces of the Rule of Law) — where I argued that what was at stake is...
View ArticleCan We Get another Powerful Amicus Brief to Tell the Court Not to Take Power...
You’ve probably heard of this scary case on the Supremes’ docket for this year. American Progress puts it like this: “In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will decide Moore v. Harper, a case...
View ArticleThe Central Role of the Republican Base
This piece is appearing as an op/ed this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************People should pay more attention to the central role the...
View ArticleThe Teeter-Totter as Metaphor for the American Crisis (Another Effort to...
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). I am always writing with the people in this 70-30 Republican, Trumpy area where I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah...
View ArticleThe Korean Trampling Disaster Reveals Something Important. But What?
I don’t suppose I need to spend any time here describing what happened in South Korea over the weekend, when a crowd gathered for some sort of a Halloween festivity ended up trampling more than a...
View ArticleThe Israeli Electoral System Needlessly Wastes Votes. Rank-choice Voting is...
Tomorrow Israel goes to the polls. The outcome will apparently depend on whether some party or parties fails to reach the threshold of 3.25 percent. Such failure in the present election threatens to...
View ArticleInspired by a Brilliant Daily Kos Piece that Describes a Judge's Brilliant...
I’ve just been reading a piece on Daily Kos that inspired me with the brilliance it describes, and the brilliant job it does of painting the landscape on an important topic: i.e. how America deals with...
View ArticleThe Right of Secession (A Critique Addressed to the Pro-Confederates Among...
When one drives along the roads of my area, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, one will often see Confederate flags atop flagpoles near people’s homes. The Spirit of the Confederacy — which is the Spirit...
View ArticleLooking into Our Post-Midterm Future
This piece will be running as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (the 2012 version of VA-06, which includes Lynchburg.)************************The midterm elections seem to...
View ArticleThe Secular Worldview has Gaps that Need to be Bridged
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed in the very red congressional district in which I was the democratic nominee for Congress in 2012. I am appreciated by the liberals, though I sometimes...
View ArticleThe Extraordinary Saga of Trump and the American Body Politic
[This piece has appeared as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) where I live.]**************************Trump stands out as a figure in American history — more unique...
View ArticleTrump Team Delusion
I can only go by what is reported in this Rawstory article, which is about how Jack Smith is showing that he will be proceeding aggressively with respect to Trump and his crimes:According to one Trump...
View ArticleWhat Makes People Vulnerable to Lies? (In Newspapers in My Very Trumpy Region)
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************************What Makes People Vulnerable to Lies?I’ve discovered in recent years that the truth...
View ArticleCan We Get another Powerful Amicus Brief to Tell the Court Not to Take Power...
You’ve probably heard of this scary case on the Supremes’ docket for this year. American Progress puts it like this: “In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will decide Moore v. Harper, a case...
View ArticleThe Central Role of the Republican Base
This piece is appearing as an op/ed this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************People should pay more attention to the central role the...
View ArticleThe Teeter-Totter as Metaphor for the American Crisis (Another Effort to...
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). I am always writing with the people in this 70-30 Republican, Trumpy area where I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah...
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