Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Canterbury, New Hampshire – I am a fan of Harry Bosch, the tough, hard-bitten fictional Los Angeles Police Detective created by author Michael Connelly. Passionately devoted to justice, Bosch is nobody’s fool and not easily duped. The same cannot be said for Connelly – who is easily duped by his desire to […]
Read More Insurrect This!By Charlie Johnston Queens, New York – At times, when feeling playful in my research, I have gone on deep dives back decades, even over a century, looking at newspapers for general trends. It was on one of these forays that I discovered that if a president wanted to build a successful term, he would […]
Read More Signs and WondersBy Charlie Johnston Latrobe, Pennsylvania – I am thankful that the monster Category 5 Hurricane Milton was reduced to a more typical Category 3 by the time it made landfall in Florida, and a much weaker Category 2 shortly thereafter. The monster turned out to be significantly less bad than Hurricane Helene just before it. […]
Read More We Can Do ItBy Charlie Johnston Butler, Pennsylvania – Donald Trump began his remarks at the Butler rally on Saturday, Oct. 5, with the words in the headline, a wry reference to the interruption of the assassination attempt at the first Butler rally on July 13. The crowd roared its approval. I was sitting in the shade of […]
Read More As I Was Saying…By Charlie Johnston Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – I’m going to try to do briefer pieces every day or two until at least election. Things have gotten so crazy that to try to do any sort of comprehensive stuff is truly like trying to drink from the proverbial fire hose. But we can do some postcards on […]
Read More We’re On Our OwnBy Charlie Johnston Ann Arbor, Michigan – Today, Thursday, Sept. 26, would have been my Dad’s 87th birthday. August 24th would have been my Mom’s 84th birthday. (For those of you clever with math, yes that does mean Dad was 18 when I was born and Mom was 15 – but they had been married […]
Read More Contemplations of a Road WarriorBy Charlie Johnston Libertyville, Illinois – Coming to my old home state of Illinois I know what an athlete must feel like visiting his old home stadium 25 years after he has retired. It is intimate in that he knows every nook and cranny of it, including every mound and soft spot on the playing field. […]
Read More Approaching the RubiconBy Charlie Johnston Omaha, Nebraska – I departed home yesterday for my latest missionary tour. About 70 miles northeast of Denver, a prairie fire swept across the road just before Wiggins, Colorado. After sitting for 15 minutes in the backed-up traffic, my GPS announced that the road ahead was now closed. Taking a gander at […]
Read More The Revolting Jezebel Revolt(The piece below appeared in the latest issue of our CORAC National Newsletter. If you don’t already read the CORAC site, you should. If you miss an issue, you miss a lot. I am convinced that this election is not going to be a resolution of the battle that has been simmering in American society […]
Read More The Braveheart ElectionBy Charlie Johnston I have made a great mistake…probably the biggest of the last 30 years. I labored under a vast misconception about something vitally important. I put it in a critical memo I once wrote for some Congressmen – and fear it may have influenced some of what I have written here, so you […]
Read More The Electoral College is Vital to National Union
A Sign of Hope 