The Duty to Hate Hillary (Another Message to Conservatives)
This is another in my series of op/eds that run in the newspapers of my conservative area. Like most of these pieces, this one attempts to challenge my conservative readers. The hope in all these is...
View ArticleAll Republican Patriots Must Choose: Party or Principle
This piece is running in newspapers in my conservative congressional district in Virginia (VA-06).*******Winston Churchill said: “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others...
View ArticleWhat (if Anything) Does Trump Respect?
My latest piece for the newspapers in my conservative area of Virginia (in this case, just the Shenandoah Valley).*********************When we Americans choose a president we need to consider more than...
View ArticleThe Trump Supporter’s Week from Hell
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional District.For Donald Trump's supporters, as the week of the first presidential debate began, things looked better than ever. Once...
View ArticleThis Sex-Bully Tape Really Should Move Votes
Originally, I was going to call this piece, "The Trump Tape: A Case Where the Tabloid Headline Does Really Tell Us Something Newsworthy."And it does.It's regrettable that it should be "news" to so many...
View ArticleThe "Campaign After the Campaign" Hillary Needs
"We Are Going to Win the War and We Are Going to Win the Peace That Follows." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor Hillary Clinton must, of course, defeat Donald Trump....
View ArticleThe Liberals' Share of the Blame
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06), headed by the preface that "This piece is appearing on various liberal websites."*****************Every liberal...
View ArticleDousing Trump's Insurrectionary Fire
This piece is running in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06).***********This ugly presidential campaign will soon be over, but ugliness threatens to continue beyond Election...
View ArticleAbout Trump's Sexual Nature
This piece will be appearing this week in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06). Indeed, it was the piece I had in mind for my last week's column, but then I wrote "Dousing...
View ArticleUn-Seeing What You Have Seen (A Message to Vacillating Trump Supporters)
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional District in Virginia (VA-06).******A pattern in support for Donald Trump has repeated itself twice in recent months.In early...
View ArticleUgliness Ahead, Either Way
If Donald Trump wins next Tuesday – God forbid! – then it goes without saying that American politics are in for a time of profound ugliness.But it is becoming increasingly clear that even if Donald...
View ArticleThree Cheers for President Obama, Trump-Blaster on the Hustings
As I was thinking about Donald Trump recently, the line just popped into my head, "Not a noble bone in his body."Which immediately turned my thoughts to President Obama who, more than any president I...
View ArticleWas It Wrong for Hillary and Obama to Be So Gracious This Week in the...
On daily kos, the piece was titled "Obama and Clinton delivered amazing grace under pressure—but they shouldn't have." On slate.com, the piece was called "A Russian Dissident Explains Exactly Why...
View Article“Seek Peace While Preparing for War”: A Strategy for the Outset of the Trump Era
Let's test, not assumeThe United States has entered an extraordinarily dangerous era, with Donald Trump as President and a deplorable Republican Party holding majorities in both Houses of Congress, as...
View Article"Seek Peace While Preparing for War": Going to/after Trump about Climate Change
This is the first sequel to the opening statement of this series, which laid out this basic idea: In this extremely dangerous moment in our nation's history, we owe it to ourselves and our posterity to...
View ArticleTell Us They're Not Expressing You, Mr. President-Elect
This piece, written over the weekend, has run in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06). In a note after the column, I will say something about how this piece fits into the...
View ArticlePrincipled Opposition, Not Unpatriotic Obstructionism
A lot of fuzzy-headed confusion, and unwarranted panic, seem to be swirling around the question of how the Democrats should deal -- or refuse to deal -- with Donald Trump. What concerns me in...
View ArticleHow an Honorable President-Elect Would Deal Now with the Supreme Court Vacancy
This piece is appearing this morning in a couple of the newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).*******************************I know it’s not going to happen, because Donald Trump...
View ArticleAn Exemplar of Republican Hypocrisy and Brazen Chutzpah: Rep. Bob Goodlatte
I live in the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia's 6th congressional District. The District is 2:1 Republican, and so my challenge to Mr. Goodlatte in 2012, as the Democratic nominee for the District's...
View ArticleThe Democrats' Best Good-Cop/Bad-Cop Duo: Obama and Warren
I was delighted to discover this morning that President Obama has suggested he may not abide by the tradition of the out-going president maintaining silence regarding his successor.I had been planning...
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