"Judicial Ethics" Is Not the Essential Problem with Today's Supreme Court
Big story, these past few days, about Justice Alito’s house having flown the flag of the Insurrection just days after January 6. And about how Alito and Thomas should both recluse themselves from cases...
View ArticleTelling My Republican Neighbors Their Party --Like Fascistic Parties...
[This piece ran last weekend as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in...
View ArticleJust Look at the #%!@ Evidence! (My Post-Verdict Challenge to My Red...
[This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this week in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.]*******************************A...
View ArticleA Dramatic, Compelling Way to Expose How Un-American This Republican Party...
This is how I’m beginning an op/ed that I intend to serve soon as my weekly op/ed I publish in newspapers in the very red congressional district where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012....
View ArticleNeeded: Republican Leaders to Lead Their Supporters Out of Darkness...
YouTube VideoPeople on the right have become remarkable, over the past twenty-some years, for how completely they listen only to voices in the Republican world. Certainly not to anything said by a...
View ArticleHow Much Should the 2024 Campaign Be Conducted Pro-Biden, How Much Anti-Trump?
Here on Daily Kos, some weeks ago, I recently read a piece about the upcoming Presidential election that argued that Democrats should concentrate on persuading voters why they should vote for Joe Biden...
View Article"Judicial Ethics" Is Not the Essential Problem with Today's Supreme Court
Big story, these past few days, about Justice Alito’s house having flown the flag of the Insurrection just days after January 6. And about how Alito and Thomas should both recluse themselves from cases...
View ArticleThe ONLY Question for Democrats Is What Course Is Likeliest to Keep Trump...
Reasonable people might differ on the question, “How big of a disaster for Biden’s chances for victory was last night’s debate?” But however people answer that question, what Democrats should do now...
View ArticleOn Bill McKibben's Confidence that Joe Biden Will Do What America Needs
Bill McKibben — hero of the climate change movement — has sent out an email about the meaning of what happened in Thursday’s debate. He’d expected nothing important to happen, but in fact the debate...
View ArticleThis Is Addressed to All Those DKers Who Want Joe Biden to Remain Our...
If Joe Biden continues to insist on remaining the nominee, I devoutly hope that he wins, and will do what I can to help that happen. But for that to be the right choice, I hope you’ll agree, that path...
View ArticleIt Should Not Be So Impossible to Arrive at a Good Alternative Candidate...
I’ve posted a predictably mostly unpopular piece here on DK a while ago — “This Is Addressed to All Those DKers Who Want Joe Biden to Remain Our Champion to Defeat Trump” — in response to which one...
View ArticleThis Trump Assassination Attempt is Important Only Because People Are Making...
The description of this 16-minute video reads thus: What did this incident tell us that we didn't know? What did it change in our situation? If nothing, then it's something that MIGHT...
View ArticleOp/Ed for My Red Region: It’s Unwise to Make So Much of an Assassination Attempt
This piece will be appearing in newspapers this week in the mostly rural Virginia region in which I live.This piece has some of the same ideas presented in the video I made with the DK audience in...
View ArticleEssential to Be Ready, If Biden Throws Things Open
Something dramatic has happened on the futures market that indicates clearly that the Democratic world needs to be ready to proceed wisely in the event that Joe Biden does step aside between now and...
View ArticleDemocrats in Array
This piece will be running as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***********************The Democrats in ArrayThe headline “Democrats in Disarray” is a long-standing...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Israel (VIDEO)
I speak here as one who has been pretty aware of Israel for more than 70 years, and following its politics for more than half a century. And I speak as an American Jew who grew up taking pride in the...
View ArticlePerplexed by What I Lately Witnessed on Daily Kos
For some years, I’ve held the DK community in high regard for the overall high quality of both the articles and the discussions. Over the past month, I’ve been surprised and then disturbed by a couple...
View ArticleThe Democratic World Finally Gets the Fighter It Needs (VIDEO)
FDR was a fighter. So there's nothing about being liberal that precludes being a fighter. But the standard-bearers that Democrats have been choosing in recent decades have not been fighters. And this...
View ArticleHow Good Is "Weird" as a Line of Attack? (VIDEO)
A lot of attention has lately been paid to how the pro-Democracy forces are going after the would-be Fascist dictator and his allies by calling them "Weird."Is that a good approach for moving the...
View ArticleThe Desire for a Dictator, and How to Counter It (Op/Ed in My Red VA District)
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed this weekend in my very red congressional district VA-06 (in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012).******************************Ever...
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