Enmity in America, Echoes of the Civil War Era
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my conservative congressional district (VA-06).*********************The other day, I saw some poll results that disturbed but did not surprise me. It revealed...
View ArticleThe Smear-Job Against Mueller Must Be Countered—Vigorously and Right Away
President Trump and his allies have begun a smear campaign against the Special Prosecutor, Robert Muller. He’s conducting a “witch hunt,” says the President. Newt Gingrich accuses Mueller of being...
View ArticleA Better Human Story #4– Humankind’s Perilous Step into Terra Incognita: The...
All previous entries in this series can be found here.***********************We now approach what may be the most pivotal part of what I’ve called my “integrative vision”: an idea I call “the parable...
View ArticleRule of Law in America? It’s Up to Trump Voters
This piece has appeared in my very red congressional District (VA-06).*************Let me demonstrate, in a few steps, why it is likely up to Trump voters whether the rule of law will be upheld in...
View ArticleWhere There Is No Vision, the People Perish (Proverbs 29:18)
This piece will be appearing soon in newspapers in my very "conservative" congressional District (VA-06).************************With times as dire as these are -- with dark turmoil in our politics...
View ArticleHow the Russian-Hack Episode Shows the Need for Liberals to Stop Being...
The Washington Post last week published a big story about the Obama administration's struggles to figure out how to deal with what the intelligence agencies were telling, during the final months of the...
View ArticleThe Only Good Reason I Know for Dumping Pelosi is a Rotten One
You've probably heard that in the wake of Jon Ossoff's loss in GA-06 there have been calls for Nancy Pelosi to step down from her position as leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.If...
View ArticleMalign Alignment: How an Alliance of America's Darkest Forces Made the GOP...
This piece has lately run in newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).*************************As I am writing this, the Republicans in the Congress are trying to pass a bill that...
View ArticlePresidential Historian Walter Issacson Needlessly Baffled by Trump's Choice...
I was just watching Thursday's "The 11th Hour," with Brian Williams interviewing presidential historians Jon Meacham and Walter Isaacson.Isaacson sketched out an image to depict the great potential...
View ArticleDiscussion Question: How to Interpret Trump's Mika Tweets?
As everybody presumably knows, a few days ago our grotesque president launched against Mika Bzezinski and Joe Scarborough some tweets that were condemned by Republicans as well as Democrats, and...
View ArticleBetter Human Story # 5-- The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in...
A NEW LIFE-FORM: CIVILIZED SOCIETYWith the domestication of plants and animals, the human species became the first creature in the more than 3.5 billion years of the evolution of life on earth to...
View ArticleTo Trump Supporters: Do We Dare Take So Big a Risk?
This piece will be running shortly in newspapers in my very Republican congressional district (VA-06).********************A word, please, with you who still support President Trump.Let us momentarily...
View ArticleTethered to a Rotten President, This GOP Has Been Rotten for a Long Time
Part of me is eager for the Republicans in Congress to do the right thing, and rid us of this monstrous president (as any Congress without partisan priorities would already be doing by now).That part...
View ArticleStep-By-Step Proof: A Creature's Escape from Its Biologically-Evolved Niche...
The purpose of the series titled "A Better Human Story," of which five installments have already been posted here, is to provide an "integrative vision" that illuminates why the history of civilized...
View ArticleBetter Human Story #6-- The Pay-Off for Taking on this “Integrative Vision”:...
All previous entries in this series can be found here.***********I realize that in this Series, I am asking the reader to do some work—more work than even readers of more than the usual level of...
View ArticleThe Abomination of Trump's Remarks on Sessions
We never have to wait long for the next display of Trump's utter unsuitability for the presidency. And fortunately, many in the major news media are monitoring the sequence of Trumpian atrocities...
View ArticleRepublicans in Congress, Is This Too Much to Ask?
This piece will be appearing this weekend in two newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).*************************I realize that you Republicans in Congress are in a difficult...
View ArticleManhood and the Fate of the Earth
This article was first published in the Christian Science Monitor on October3, 1991-- not long before the Rio "Earth Summit." More than a quarter century ago. But sadly it remains relevant. Climate...
View ArticleThe Coming Constitutional Test. Will America Pass It?
This piece will be appearing, in the next couple of days, in newspapers in my conservative congressional District (VA-06).*************************It seems as clear as can be that a constitutional test...
View ArticleSessions Humiliated? That's Not How I See It.
Interesting to me: the recurring media description of the Trump/Sessions drama in terms of Trump humiliating Sessions. (How long will Sessions be willing to be "humiliated" publicly like this, various...
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