Faith, Logic and the Vanishing Point
Near my rural home is a railroad track that stretches as far as the eye can see. If you stand in the middle of the rails, they appear to eventually come together. It is a trick that our brain plays on...
View ArticleSeeing Obama, RFK and Nixon
Inertia weighed me down, made me resist my wife's gentle urging that we take our 14-year-old son to the Obama rally at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City a month ago. I'd covered politics for nearly...
View ArticleDaddy's Fifth Deferment
When Liz Cheney is included among the panel of This Week With George Stephanopolos and gets a national network forum to spew her poison, it's interesting that only George Will steps forward to counter...
View ArticleThe Me Attitudes - A Conservative Credo
After listening to the Republican debates, the primary campaign stump speeches, the soundbites, political ads and now the proclamations from the lectern at CPAC, I've begun to understand the...
View ArticleThe Ghost of "Bull" Connor Wraps Around Sessions
The black-and-white television images of more than 50 years ago haven’t faded in my memory. Police beating peaceful civil rights protesters with their clubs, directing their German shepherd dogs...
View ArticleNixon Tickets, Trump Parallels
My mother was an inveterate saver of stuff I had accumulated during my childhood: Term papers from seventh grade; stories I’d written; a letter notifying my parents that I’d made the honor roll my...
View ArticleTrump's Scout Law, Translated
As an Eagle Scout for more than 53 years, I can still recite the Boy Scout Law. For those who weren’t Scouts, here’s a refresher:A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind,...
View ArticleHow to Fight For a Better Life
Not long ago, I responded to an op ed in my local newspaper written by an arch conservative who berated those in Missouri demonstrating for a $15 per hour minimum wage. This spring the Missouri General...
View ArticleDefending Monuments to Bigotry
As we see the eruption of white-hot hatred in Charlottesville, Va. this weekend, ostensibly over the pending removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, perhaps the nation should shift its...
View ArticleCensus Question: Do You Own a Firearm? How Many?
Given the oppressive right wing’s insistence on adding a question regarding citizenship to the 2020 Census, then I suppose we should also be asking some other questions. Let’s ask our potential “well...
View ArticleI am the Eagle Scout
I am the Eagle Scout.I am the Missouri Boy’s State delegate in the last summer of innocence. I am 17, and although The Ballad of the Green Beret is in heavy rotation on my favorite local Top 40 a.m....
View ArticleFaith, Logic and the Vanishing Point
Near my rural home is a railroad track that stretches as far as the eye can see. If you stand in the middle of the rails, they appear to eventually come together. It is a trick that our brain plays on...
View ArticleSeeing Obama, RFK and Nixon
Inertia weighed me down, made me resist my wife's gentle urging that we take our 14-year-old son to the Obama rally at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City a month ago. I'd covered politics for nearly...
View ArticleDaddy's Fifth Deferment
When Liz Cheney is included among the panel of This Week With George Stephanopolos and gets a national network forum to spew her poison, it's interesting that only George Will steps forward to counter...
View ArticleThe Me Attitudes - A Conservative Credo
After listening to the Republican debates, the primary campaign stump speeches, the soundbites, political ads and now the proclamations from the lectern at CPAC, I've begun to understand the...
View ArticleThe Ghost of "Bull" Connor Wraps Around Sessions
The black-and-white television images of more than 50 years ago haven’t faded in my memory. Police beating peaceful civil rights protesters with their clubs, directing their German shepherd dogs...
View ArticleNixon Tickets, Trump Parallels
My mother was an inveterate saver of stuff I had accumulated during my childhood: Term papers from seventh grade; stories I’d written; a letter notifying my parents that I’d made the honor roll my...
View ArticleTrump's Scout Law, Translated
As an Eagle Scout for more than 53 years, I can still recite the Boy Scout Law. For those who weren’t Scouts, here’s a refresher:A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind,...
View ArticleHow to Fight For a Better Life
Not long ago, I responded to an op ed in my local newspaper written by an arch conservative who berated those in Missouri demonstrating for a $15 per hour minimum wage. This spring the Missouri General...
View ArticleDefending Monuments to Bigotry
As we see the eruption of white-hot hatred in Charlottesville, Va. this weekend, ostensibly over the pending removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, perhaps the nation should shift its...
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