People on the right believe all government is bad, except when it’s in the hands of a tyrant, and then government becomes the blunt instrument against their enemies. People on…
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In my case the adage, “you can’t go home again” is literally true. However not long before my 93-year-old father died, I asked him who would carry Michigan in 2016,…
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“We are going to do the worst thing to you; we are going to deprive you of an enemy.” Mikhail Gorbachev, 1989 Thirty years ago today I was in the…
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After sitting for an hour beside the rippling stream, watching the water flow by below my feet and people on bikes and foot flow by on the pedestrian road across…
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There is no such thing as ‘higher thought.’ That’s a misnomer humans have given the evolution of symbolic thought. The crisis of human consciousness boils down to the question: Can…
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I’ve been encountering so much darkness lately through what I call conduits (people that conduct evil as easily as copper conducts electricity) that I’ve been asking: Is there effectively only…
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America’s former FBI Director, James Comey (whose ham-handed public handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails less than two weeks before the election helped get Donald Trump elected), says…
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The desperately needed rain in Butte County, the site of the most devastating and destructive wildfire in America’s history, paused this afternoon, ‘Black Friday.’ Though the wind hadn’t abated much.…