A Close Election, Everyone Says. Once Again, I Am Hoping for a Blow-Out (VIDEO)
The upsurgence of passionate support for Kamala far exceeded what anyone thought lay latent in America. That surprise should alert us to the possibility that America might have the potential for...
View ArticleUrgent Need for Biden to Play Hardball with Netanyahu (VIDEO)
Major U.S. Priority is to prevent a wider regional war.The Israel government seems to be choosing to escalate into such a wider war.That conflict of intentions should lead the President of the United...
View ArticlePeople I Respect Say Shapiro. Why I Still Say Walz. (13-Minute VIDEO)
YouTube VideoMaintain unity. Avoid Gaza problems. Be confident that Kamala and Walz, with help from Shapiro, can carry Pennsylvania, grab the heart of Middle America, and avoid the anti-Semitism.Go...
View ArticleWhat Might Happen if Kamala Keeps Making Trump Look Weak and Small
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed this week in my very red congressional district (VA-06)************************Everyone says this election will be close. Could be. But the American body...
View ArticleThe Two Schmookler Boys Discuss This Extraordinary Political Moment (VIDEO)
A conversation between me and my brother (Ed Schmookler, clinical psychologist, of Berkeley, CA). Here’s the description:Why this is an extraordinary moment in our history. Why it's happening now. What...
View ArticleWhat a Wonderful Olympics! (At So Many Levels) (VIDEO)
Description:So beautiful in so many ways, a magnificent display at many levels. * The city of Paris, always a world treasure. * The Olympic venues embedded like jewels in the city....
View ArticleThe Very Small Thing That Seems to Have Saved American Democracy (Op/Ed)
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06). It’s title in the newspapers is “For Want of a Nail … The Kingdom was Lost.”*****************************A...
View ArticleHow Kamala Can Make the Honeymoon Last (13-minute VIDEO)
It's all about the feelings, and the feelings are all about how the American people experience Kamala Harris at a personal level.YouTube VideoHoneymoons are about Love. And Kamala has the opportunity —...
View ArticleAfter the Convention: Kamala Should Speak in Ways that Will Make News Regularly
With the Democratic National Convention about to start, Kamala Harris will surely get lots of coverage this week. But that will not eliminate the need to reach a whole lot of people who, though they...
View ArticleDownplaying the Threat a Bully Poses Drains His Power (Op/Ed in My Red District)
This piece is running this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).******************************The way Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are campaigning against Donald Trump has...
View ArticleSome Questions for Republicans (9-Minute VIDEO of This Week's Op/Ed in Very...
The Description:Every week, I put out an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran for Congress, as the Democratic nominee, in 2012. This is a reading of my piece for...
View ArticleWhen "May You Live in Interesting Times" Isn't Just a Curse
This piece will be running as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06), perhaps under the title “Extraordinary Developments Expose Deep...
View ArticleThe Special Gift of Leonard Cohen (VIDEO)
An artist of song and poetry who weds the flesh and the spirit.YouTube VideoYou can see the library of my videos at www.youtube.com/...
View ArticleNail-Biter or Landslide: Here's What It May Depend On (12-Minute VIDEO)
It seems most commentators are assuming that this will be a close election. They may well be right. But much of that assumption rests on the perception of the American political situation being pretty...
View ArticleWhy Kamala Should Be Glad She Didn't Get the Hot Mics She Wanted for the Debate
I wrote this first to argue that Kamala should withdraw her demand for open mics. Then just last night it was reported that she had reluctantly agreed to proceed with the rules that mics would be muted...
View ArticleMillions "Just Tuning In"? Might That Shift the Balance in the Presidential...
I’ve read smart people who report that a great many people don’t really pay attention to politics until close to the election, like between Labor Day and Election Day. Does this introduce any...
View ArticleFor the Debate, Kamala Should Pounce on Trump's Pushing for Gov't Shutdown
There are reports that Trump is pressuring Republicans in Congress to shut the government down by not funding its continued operation. (And it’s all on a bogus pretext: pretending that there’s a...
View ArticleWhy Do the Mainstream Media Report So Little on Trump's Cognitive Decline?
As one who framed talk radio conversations for years — on commercial AM and NPR FM stations — I believe that it can be useful to open topics up for discussion, and not just to proclaim a point of view....
View Article# 1 Sending Weekly Messages to the Good Conservatives Who Have Gone Over to...
I publish an op/ed every week in newspapers in the congressional district in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, running to alert as many people as possible to the destructive and...
View Article# 2 My Weekly Op/Ed Challenging My Red Region (on the Electoral College...
In the first of this series, I explained how I get to send a message — through the region’s newspapers— to the conservative people with whom I’d once had a good relationship in ten years of talk radio...
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