Bernie Sanders' Gift to the Left: The Recovery of our Moral Discourse
The response by an evangelical pastor and Liberty University alumnus to Bernie Sanders' speech at Liberty University, the university founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, on Monday stands as a good...
View ArticleHillary’s debate performance failed to allay any of my concerns about her...
Mainstream media pundits are insistent that Hillary Clinton “won” the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate, despite dozens of informal polls of viewers that gave the night to Sanders. I will...
View ArticleParis in perspective
What happened in Paris is an unspeakable horror, but no less horrific is fthe daily terror we have been raining down from the sky upon people across the Middle East for many years now. Some defend our...
View ArticleThe Security Illusion
Safety, security -- these are illusions. Always have been, and, short of each of us living in armored pods hermetically sealed off from our fellow human beings (including, I might add, from our own...
View ArticleThe false promise of political centrism in a time of right-wing radical...
One of the chief distinctions Hillary Clinton has been attempting to draw between herself and Bernie Sanders is that she is a political ‘realist’ who won’t make promises she cannot keep, where Sanders...
View ArticleThoughts on Orlando
(Note: Like most who are reading this, my thoughts today have been consumed by the events in Orlando. My reactions trickled out in a series of separate, but related, Facebook status update. This is...
View ArticleRemember when conservatives stood for slow, incremental change?
Remember when conservatives stood for, or at least claimed to stand for, slow, incremental, responsible change?In recent conversations with a number of Trump voters, I have heard more than one person...
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The very short and highly selective memory of the Trump supporter
Throughout the Trump presidency, we have seen attempts by Trump supporters to portray Donald Trump as somehow being the victim of vitriol from his opponents at a level that has been unprecedented in...
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