"This is What You're Voting For"-- A Hard-Hitting Op/Ed Challenge to My Red...
[This piece is appearing this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06) where, in 2012, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress (against soon-to-be Chair of the House...
View ArticleThe Soul of Jeff Bezos (VIDEO)
One of the best lines in the Bible: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? [37] Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (KJV, Mark...
View ArticleThe Two Election Scenarios (another Op/Ed Challenging My Trump-supporting...
This piece will be running this weekend in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012. The regions of those newspapers run...
View ArticleTerror and Enthusiasm: The Recipe for Our Coming Victory (VIDEO)
My gut feeling is that we’re going to win, and even win somewhat big. (But I know that in the Age of Trump, surprising things can happen, and so it is good for us to have that element of Terror that...
View ArticleLet's Launch a Pre-Emptive Strike to Defeat Trump's Coming Big Lie 2.0...
We can see what’s coming: Trump is likely going to lose, and he’ll immediately claim that he’s been robbed, and is the real winner. He and his side have been telegraphing this repetition of his Big Lie...
View ArticleTrump Is Illustrating How Evil Tends to Destroy Itself
Of course, I don’t know what’s going to happen on Tuesday, and in its aftermath. But I’ve got a hunch that has been growing stronger all week.My hunch says that — in this ongoing battle American...
View ArticleI'm Quite Optimistic. Why Isn't the Press Making "Rising Harris" the Story?...
I study the data as it gets reported. Sure looks to me like things are fairly clearly moving toward a Harris victory over Donald Trump, and by more than a razor-thin margin. But then I look at how...
View ArticleSOME MEN CLAIMING A RIGHT TO CONTROL WOMEN
This piece is my op/ed for this week in newspapers in the very red congressional district where I live (VA-07). Today, the day before 2024’s Election Day, I am of the belief that Kamala Harris is going...
View ArticleJust Trying to Get Through the Day
I can hear my favorite President, FDR, intoning the words: “Yesterday, November 5, 2024, a date that will live in infamy.”*******************I remind myself that in my 78 years, I’ve had a few other...
View ArticleOn Kamala's Imminent "Concession" Speech (How Should She Thread This Needle?)
It is reported that Kamala Harris will be speaking to the nation at 4 PM Eastern— little more than an hour from now. I imagine that it has taken her this long to make the customary “concession speech”...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong? Our Focus Should Be on the People, Not So Much the...
Our Founders often said that the Democracy they’d established would work only if the people possessed what they called “Republican virtue.” They understood that the survival of their experiment in...
View ArticleWhat I Said Online to a MAGA Gloater
A piece I posed here earlier this week — SOME MEN CLAIMING A RIGHT TO CONTROL WOMEN — ran this weekend in the newspaper, and it prompted one MAGA reader to come forward with some comment whose spirit I...
View ArticleThe Heart of the Problem Revealed by this Election
On Friday, I posted here a video with the title, "What Went Wrong? Our Focus Should Be on the People, Not So Much the Democratic Party." I wasn't satisfied that, in that video, I'd been as clear in...
View ArticleThe American People Faced a Blatant Choice of the Most Fundamental Kind: They...
[By “the American People” I mean the majority of those who voted. That’s the way that the Constitution decides what’s “the will of the people.]****************** The “campaign too short” bit, and...
View ArticleWhen the Truth Loses, Evil Wins (12-Minute Video)
It is important that we understand how the Fascist Force achieved its recent electoral victory, which looms now as potentially the greatest catastrophe in American history.This video is about one of...
View ArticleHow Much Danger Lies Ahead for Opponents of Trump?
[This piece will be running this week as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************For many months, I characterized the 2024 Election as a battle...
View ArticleCan the Truth Defeat the Lie in America Today? (9-minute VIDEO)
The question could also be put: What kind of media system should Liberal America construct to counter the pernicious effects of the Fascist Media system (like Fox News)?YouTube VideoVarious voices on...
View ArticleQuestions to Put to AG Nominee Pam Bondi on National Television
Everyone seems to think that President-elect Trump’s second choice for Attorney General wouldn’t be getting the job unless Trump felt confident that she’ll do his bidding, whether its serves or damages...
View Article"The Denunciation Project" -- A Weapon for Democrats to Defend America
This is the idea I recently sent to the Democratic leader who wants me to send him my ideas. Some he acts on, or passes along to the people in the Democratic world in the best position to act on them....
View ArticleAmerica's Confluence of Evils (VIDEO)
I define “Evil” as “a coherent force that consistently works to make the human world worse.” (Or, “consistently works to make the human world more broken.”) That kind of “Force of Brokenness” can take...
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