# 3 A Public Battle of Argument Between Me and a Republican Regarding the...
In the previous installment, I presented “The Electoral College: All Costs, Not Benefits— this week’s attempt to get the good conservatives I used to know to give control to the better angels of their...
View ArticleWhy the Well-Being of Women Requires Men to Keep it to Themselves: About...
Over the course of the history of civilization, one of the 'rights' that men have asserted, that that have hurt women profoundly, has been the right to impose their sexual thoughts and feelings and...
View ArticleWhat Are the Israelis Trying to Achieve with Hezbollah? (VIDEO)
A discussion of two possibilities:1) The Israeli decision-makers want to provoke that wider war.2) They believe they've got their enemies intimidated into taking real blows without more than symbolic...
View ArticleWhy It's Clear: Barring Some Big Jolt to the Race, Harris Is on a Path to...
One can discern movement in various parts of the political picture and together they show that Kamala Harris is continuously gaining and Trump is in descent. She’s rising (gradually) in the polls.Her...
View Article"Weather" Becomes "the News" in Our Climate Change Era
Thoughts Upon Watching Hurricane News on the Weather Channel (See also text, below, which is the “Description” of this YouTube video. The video and the description are very different ways of weaving...
View ArticleMy Latest Challenging Op/Ed Message to the Republicans I Live Among
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.*********************The Important Role Republican...
View ArticleInviting Help with New Op/Ed, "This Is What Y'All Are Voting For"
I write a weekly op/ed that appears in newspapers in my part of Virginia that Trump is virtually sure to carry by a 2:1 margin. (For years, I’ve been sharing these weekly efforts of mine to send...
View ArticleEscalation or Restraint? Why the Choice is All Israel's, Not Iran's (VIDEO...
Here’s the video. (Text is below.)YouTube VideoAs the international system works, no power that faces enemies can afford to take humiliation lying down. Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel was...
View ArticleAppealing to Republicans to Put Nation Above Party (Liz Cheney and My Column)
In the Northern Virginia Daily today there appears a column of mine titled, “The Important Role Republican Leaders Can Play.” (The area in which this newspaper circulates votes roughly 70%...
View ArticleTwo Bright Spots from the Big Picture, A Break from Our Stormy Political Moment
Most of my op/eds are challenging messages to the Trumpy region I live in. But my true calling is a bigger picture I’ve been calling A BETTER HUMAN STORY, and so once in a while I allow myself to write...
View Article"Wisdom of the Crowd"? Does This Movement on the Future's Market Mean Anything?
I expect I am typical of a great many people in that I feel a good deal better or worse depending on my level of optimism about the upcoming election, and in that my optimism/pessimism fluctuates...
View ArticleFlunking the Climate Change Test: De Santis, the Republicans, and the Weather...
When I was growing up in Minnesota, the local TV stations would come on at 10 PM with a half hour of “News, Weather, and Sports”: 15 minutes of news, a quick 5 minutes of weather, then 10 minutes of...
View ArticleSimon Rosenberg is a Hero for Our Times (9-minute video)
These are dark and dangerous times. When there’s danger, some people emerge as heroes to help the community prevail over the danger that threatens them. And so it is we can see how the Fascist danger...
View ArticleOur Inescapable Hopes and Fears about Our Inherently Unknowable Future
This is a moment of deep nervousness among us who understand what the stakes are in the upcoming presidential election, but who also do not know how it is going to turn out.Will our hopes be fulfilled,...
View ArticleTrump Just Opened Himself Up to a Devastating Move From Kamala
By a happy bit of synchrony, the same Donald Trump who turned his supposed “Town Hall” gathering into an inexplicable and bizarre opportunity for people to watch him swaying to his favorite music for...
View ArticleCan't America's Superior Economic Performance Be Trumpeted (in Ads) to Help...
Correcting a dangerous falsehood.It has been observed for a couple of years now — notably and repeatedly by Paul Krugman — that there’s a big gap between how the American economy has been doing in...
View ArticleWhy It's a Stupid Question to Ask VP Harris, "How Will Your Policies Differ...
In a word, it is impossible for her to give any meaningful answer. Yet the journalists keep asking it. (Even an interviewer from MSNBC, on Friday, acted like this question was a big deal.)It’s not that...
View ArticleMaybe "The Angry Snarl" Helps Solve the Great Mystery of How Conservative...
The fundamental choice in this presidential election is between Democracy and Fascism. And we can see that both sides have now agreed that this is the choice. Trump is willingly portraying that as the...
View ArticleIt's a Time for Mockery: "Have You Seen Grampa Lately?" (Text and 9-Minute...
Barack Obama is delivering that line masterfully in his speeches to help Kamala defeat Trump. “Have you seen grampa lately?” is a powerful line coming, as it does, right after Obama has conjured up...
View ArticleStrange Forces Make This Election Unusually Unpredictable (VIDEO and text)
“How can it be so close?” Incomprehensible, when one considers that one of the candidates has a huge collection of what used to be considered “automatic disqualifiers” that somehow fail to drive away...
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