When You’re a Star, You Can Do Anything
This piece will be running in newspapers in my very red district (VA-06).**************************************We should have known what we were getting when we heard Trump declare, on the Hollywood...
View Article"Impeach Trump?" A Movement to Shame Republicans Who Protect Trump and Not...
This week I challenged Bob Goodlatte, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. I challenged him on his home turf and, with the help of the media, in front of his public.I’d like to suggest that the...
View ArticleThe Danger of Applauding Trump's Syrian Strike
Reading some the news articles about Trump’s attack on the Syrian air-base, and the reactions to it, what comes into focus for me is the great danger we place ourselves in, as a nation, by having sent...
View ArticleIt's Time for Corporate America to Speak Up on Climate Change
This piece has appeared in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06).*************As it is said in the Bible (Luke 12:48), “From everyone who has been given much, much will be...
View ArticleMy Concern About Ralph Northam -- and Why on June 13 I Will Vote for Tom...
Like other Virginia Democrats I know, I will strongly support whoever is the Democratic nominee for governor this fall against any possible Republican nominee.And like many other Democrats I know, I...
View ArticleThinking Through the North Korea Crisis
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my (conservative) congressional District (VA-06).The long-running problem with North Korea is coming to a head—either very soon, or in the not-too-distant...
View ArticleA Better Human Story (First in a Series)
Would You Be Interested? Would you be interested in hearing about a way of understanding our humanity, and the story of our species on this planet, that• Explains much about the overall trajectory of...
View ArticleSenator Mark Warner: MIA, AWOL, or What?
Dear Senator Warner,A great many Americans were heartened – one might say, relieved – when you and Senator Burr stood before the press together, one month ago, and assured us that you and your...
View ArticleHow “the Good” Emerges Out of Evolution (Second in the Series, "A Better...
The first installment of this series can be found here.Secularization and Its DisconnectionsI claimed, in the first entry of this series, that a meaningful “story” about our kind (about the human saga)...
View ArticleObama and the Big Wall Street Speaking Fees
The current issue of THE WEEK magazine arrived this past weekend, and the cover gave me no pleasure.That cover depicted a caricature of former President Barack Obama with money in his hands, and other...
View ArticleOn Appointment of New FBI Director, Schumer's Terms Aren't Tough Enough
As reported in Politico,"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has declared that no nomination should go forwardsaid Sunday that he would support an effort to block any nominee to lead the FBI until an...
View ArticleTrump Is Doing to Our Constitutional Order What He Did to Those Women
There’s a certain intellectual thrill of discovery that comes when an underlying pattern emerges from the murk of our reality.For example, a person has a character that expresses a similar spirit...
View ArticleTwo Good Reasons for Democratic Leaders to Downplay Talk of Impeachment Now
Don't get me wrong: I think we already know plenty enough to warrant impeaching and convicting Donald Trump, and removing him from the presidency.The sooner the better.And I also have concerns about...
View ArticleNortham or Perriello: What Message to Send the Democratic Party?
I've written before about the upcoming (June 13) primary contest (for the Democratic nomination for governor in Virginia) between Ralph Northam and Tom Perriello (here and here).Upon reflection, there...
View ArticleThe Goldwater Rule is Garbage
If I were going to be prudent, I would run this past the professional psychotherapists in my life (brother, daughter, first wife, friend) before going public. But I am not feeling so cautious about...
View ArticleThe Sacred Space of Lovers (Third in the Series, "A Better Human Story")
Never Underestimate the Light Side of the Force The answers I promised in the first installment related mostly to the problematic aspect of the human world. I spoke more about the problem of evil than...
View ArticleThe Battle for Our Democracy this Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day – to honor those who have sacrificed all to defend our American republic – we are compelled to confront the fact that today, too, all that they died to protect is threatened in an...
View ArticleTrump and the American Spirit: Turning This Lemon Into Lemonade
Preface: I believe strongly that even apparently implacable “realities” can be transformed by creativity at the level of the spirit. Which means that when one is in a “bad situation,” the challenge is...
View ArticleNortham & Perriello, Pipeline & Dominion: The Money-Power Problem on the Ballot
On Thursday evening, I accompanied my wife, April Moore, to an event being held by Harrisonburg Indivisible. The event was an “educational forum” in which advocates of the two candidates for the...
View ArticleWarn Trump Now: Firing Mueller Would Be an Impeachable Offense
I'm always looking for strategic ideas that might help in the critical political battle in which we are engaged in these times. This one in particular I hope will be taken up and implemented. It is...
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