The Calm Before the Tempest

By Charlie Johnston We are postponing my planned East Coast swing the middle of this month to January or February. Plenty of folks were interested in coming, but almost everyone who could host was caught up with beginning plans for the Christian holidays. I have made some individual appearances in November before, but we usually […]

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Welcome to Armageddon

By Charlie Johnston Libertyville, Illinois – I’ve been in the Chicago area this week, my old stomping grounds. It is nice to revisit the place where you grew up and spent the bulk of your early life in. You know it with an intimacy you’ll never have with any other place. As a boy, I […]

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And the Winners Are…

By Charlie Johnston Okay, I’m ready. At the bottom of this article I will make my predictions for this election cycle. More often than not, when I make formal predictions, I am eerily on target, picking up on huge undercurrents that no one else does. My best performances were, 1) in 1994, when I predicted […]

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The Gettysburg Election

By Charlie Johnston Sometime in the next couple of weeks I am going to publish my final thoughts on the midterm elections. Back when I was doing radio I would do this for 12-15 races every cycle. It was kind of weird. I got everything right, including upsets no one saw coming, except for one […]

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Analytical Overdrive

(This is, by far, the longest post I have ever written here. I won’t blame you at all if you don’t read all of it. I thought of shortening it, but then I thought it would be useful for you to see some of the highlights of how I approach topics for analysis. If you […]

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Laying Down the Trump Card

By Charlie Johnston Just over a month ago I told my son about Trump Accounts for the kids. Frankly, these are the greatest things since Harry met Sally.  Because they give a seed deposit of $1,000 for every child enrolled who was born on or after Jan. 1, 2025, some folks have gotten the mistaken […]

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Renewal Starts From Within

By Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado – I was up in Colorado to give a talk last Sunday. I was pretty pleased, as we had plenty of old friends, a good chunk of new ones, and a lot of energy. I told them that, though the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart is on the horizon, they […]

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Enough is Enough

By Charlie Johnston Five things I’m pondering… Inversion of Church and State A bizarre dispute has arisen between the State of Florida and Miami Catholic Archbishop Thomas Wenski over Catholic school vaccine mandates, which the State of Florida forbids schools to mandate. What is bizarre about it is that the state’s Attorney General, James Uthmeier, is […]

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Chickens Coming Home

By Charlie Johnston It was a banner July for our little community here at A Sign of Hope. We were right about every aspect of Covid – and were one of the earliest to get it right. We didn’t use weasel words; we were full-throated about it. It absolutely gobsmacked me that, during the depraved […]

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