A radical proposal for a day when we mark the anniversary of a radical proposal.
The Trump presidency comprised four years of bad behavior: bigotry, prejudice, racial and gender hatred, and a glaring disregard for the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Can I get a witness? It's very likely if you pray on the 50-yard line.
It is difficult, given the current composition of the United States Supreme Court, to single out any one particular malefactor as being...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 26, 2022
- 4 min
Less Wallowing, More Action
I'm sure you remember how it was waking up on November 9, 2016. If you awakened at all. You would have to have slept first, and many of...
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Chuck Radda
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
The Supreme Court—Preventing Vice and Promoting Virtue, one casualty at a time
Over the weekend, the Taliban, which last summer promised (or maybe implied? hinted at?) a movement away from its draconian past,...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
For those who contend that we study history to learn from our mistakes...it's not working.
Pompeo, Trump, others—protected by the Constitution and safe within American borders—continue to disparage Ukraine's struggle for...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
It's official: the pandemic is a bi-partisan mess. Time to hoist the Mission Accomplished banner?
In a nation where every home comprises at least one epidemiologist, one pulmonary specialist, and one pharmacist, it was bound to happen:...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
A modest proposal: prosecute the homegrown liars who continue to murder their fellow Americans.
I know millions awaken each morning and immediately check their Twitter feed. I am not one of them. It doesn't make me superior—it...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 6, 2022
- 3 min
The stubbornness of good: the lie of patriotism
Today is January 6, which in the Christian tradition is the day the three wise men arrived at the Capitol to prevent Jesus from being...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 13, 2021
- 3 min
Forget Roe v. Wade–it's a lost cause. But other rights can still be saved, if we have the will.
Because an ineffectual Congress has ceded its power to the Supreme Court, the abortion battle is over. Worse disasters lie ahead if we...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 11, 2021
- 2 min
Michael Nesmith: a lifetime of musicianship and creativity, barely recognized and often dismissed
Not only did Elvis Presley not write his own music, but the guitar he swung provocatively during his performances, he seldom played....
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
The ripple effect of misinformation is more than an unfortunate happenstance. It's deadly.
Of the thousand or so Americans who perished last week from Covid-19, Marcus Lamb stands out, for he fought long and loud against the...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Kyle Rittenhouse should pay dearly for taking the lives of two people, but he should not pay alone.
Kyle Rittenhouse should pay dearly for taking the lives of two people, but he should not pay alone. All the lying accomplices who made a...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Sometimes words mean exactly what we think they mean: "rage" is probably one of them.
With the current average cost of a funeral standing at between $7,000 and 10,000, Travis Scott is out close to $100,000 for the deaths...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 7, 2021
- 3 min
Aaron Rodgers: Critical thinker. (Self-diagnosed)
When the smartest man in the room feels compelled to tell you he's the smartest man in the room, perhaps he isn't the smartest man in the...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
Placeholders and benchwarmers: the Sinemanchin-led Democrats rush once more toward irrelevance.
Nobody can be very surprised at the self-induced nosedive the Democrats took on Tuesday, highlighted but not dominated by the asinine...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 26, 2021
- 3 min
Language—another victim of the current pandemic
Time was when people in charge made rules and other people obeyed them. Or broke them at their own peril. The people who made the rules...
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Conservatives are giddy over the new Texas abortion laws—the giddiness may be short-lived.
Wait until we start turning in gun owners for illegal weapons. Texas may regret emphasizing the citizen in citizen’s arrest. So you’re...
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
Nixon tried to prolong a war for political gain; today's GOP may render his actions small-time.
It is said, and widely believed to be accurate, that in 1968 Richard Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks. He was embroiled in a...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 22, 2021
- 3 min
In Covid cases, the South is indeed rising again, and statehouses are leading the "insurrection."
Last week, in support of her governor Ron DeSantis’s stand against mask mandates, a Florida woman said that compelling people to mask up...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
After the fall, what comes next is anybody's guess—as it has been for 20 years.
Maybe the only prediction we can safely make today about the future of the Afghan people is that we can't safely make a prediction. But...
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