How a Moral Crisis Underlies US Political Crisis
This piece ran this week as a newspaper op/ed in my congressional District (VA-06). I ran it as a…
Tag: morality
Changes that Old Movies Reveal
The article below is my op/ed for this week in newspapers in my conservative congressional…
Moral exo-skeletons and endo-skeletons: a key divide in the American body politic.
This article appeared on my own blog and in the journal The Humanist in 2006 ************* In the…
Let us remember Dr. King appropriately – he would not have remained silent
Fortunately, editorials in 2 major newspapers today can help with that. In The Boston Globe we can…
Taxes and Billionaires and the rest of us
The larger question is this: Do we try to balance budget deficits just by cutting antipoverty…
Thoughts of winter
It has turned cold in Washington, with the nighttime temperatures often below freezing. I…
A Saturday morning pause
in the transition to the school year. Students will arrive on Monday. I now have 192…
Wise VA – it’s not Las Vegas
but it is the reason I am not in Las Vegas. I am here, in the Appalachian section of…
Rich v. Poor – the world is divided
this is also posted at Daily Kos On the eve of this G-20 gathering, let's look at a few…
‘All politics is personal’
Another Speaker, Tip O'Neill once said: 'All politics is local.' And I say to…
