Author: TarheelDem

This shows there are some divisions in the GOP. David Luban, Just Security: The Case Against Serving In a powerful essay written half a century ago, Hannah Arendt warned about lesser evils (pp. 35-36):     If you are...

Don’t even try to win it. Matt L. Barron, Daily Yonder: Analysis: Democrats Turn Their Backs on Rural America Candidates do rallies in the main city of television markets because it is convenient. As the media scratched...

Burgess Everett, Politico: Democrats look to exploit Trump divisions with GOP Congress Senate Democrats hint they’re willing to play ball with the president-elect and use the filibuster sparingly. “There are areas...

Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) Camp Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí (Sacred Stone) Camp Mni wicon (Water is life) This is personal.  My wife and I met working on a liberal do-good project in 1976 in...

John Michael Greer has a review of an important Pentagon document that should chill your spine.  It is called the Joint Operations Environment projection for the year 2035 or JOE-35.  Greer points out that the...