Short Shots

The justification for the Eternal War of the Empty Policy’s erosion of our civil liberties, for its gutting of habeas corpus, for its policy...

How’s this for an epiphany? There is no progressive party; there are no progressives; there is no progressive movement or structure of any ...

I'm happy to say that I am adapting well to life with one lung. I've started weening off the oxygen, which is a relief since I am s...

I've been taking a little break while dealing with a nasty tumor on my left lung. Four courses of chemo have shrunk it from 4 cm to 1 c...

In my last post one of my readers. Ivan Hentschel, objected to my conflation of empathy and Christian love when I wrote: The word empathy ha...

“Narrative” is one of those buzz words that bounces around the Progressive blogosphere. It is usually uttered wishfully as in, “Progressives...

All of a sudden, John Maynard Keynes has returned to the A-list. Exiled at the beginning of the Reagan administration, he is once again in v...