Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Ocala, Florida – The late Chicago Mayor, Richard J. Daley, had a saying I loved. “Good government is good politics and good politics is good government.” It was a memorable Chicago way of saying take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. The late mayor […]
Read More Fiery TrialsBy Charlie Johnston Tallahassee, Florida – I have told the story of watching 9-11 in real time and exclaiming to my friend watching with me that the towers were about to collapse. I had seen them shudder just a few minutes before the first tower came down. My friend, a fellow long-time political operative, had let […]
Read More Make All Things New AgainBy Charlie Johnston Advent, America – The jury has found Daniel Penny, the man who rescued subway riders in New York from a deranged man threatening to kill them, not guilty of causing the man’s death. Just like clockwork, BLM is threatening to riot and randomly kill white folks. BLM has become the photographic negative […]
Read More The Beginning of FulfillmentBy Charlie Johnston Clanton, Alabama – Joe Biden and the Deep State which runs him do not want peace between Ukraine and Russia for the same reason that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo doesn’t want the U.S. to declare war on Mexican drug cartels: It would expose the depth of the corruption and rot of […]
Read More Russia, Ukraine, and the WorldBy Charlie Johnston Huntsville, Alabama – As Pope Francis slyly accuses Israel of genocide for having the temerity to defend itself against another 40 years of terrorist-fueled rape, torture, and murder emanating from Gaza, serious Catholics around the world ask themselves, “How long, O Lord?” Planned Parenthood is caught negotiating for viable fetuses, tiny babies, […]
Read More The Turning of the TideBy Charlie Johnston Covington, Louisiana – Matt Gaetz would not have been my choice for Attorney General. If I wanted to take a blowtorch to the place and the bulldoze the rubble so it could never target honest Americans for disagreeing with the government narrative, he is the perfect guy to send. Maybe Gaetz would […]
Read More Ever Bold, Never BrashBy Charlie Johnston “The jar of flour shall not go empty,nor the jug of oil run dry,until the day when the LORD sends rain upon the earth.” -1 Kings 17:14 Houston, Texas – Even in my heyday I never used polls as a primary indicator in campaigns. In fact, in my first statewide primary race […]
Read More Marching Towards the TriumphBy 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. […]
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A Sign of Hope 