Rules of Regency – Part III

(The comments on my preface to Part II have triggered a thought. As I think we are very near showtime I think it may be a very good thing to do a concise, but comprehensive series on what I think is the appropriate response to the degenerating crises around us – and the principles upon […]

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Rules of Regency – Part II

Boise, Idaho – (Before getting to the second installment of ROR, a comment or two… Yesterday, the national test of the Emergency Broadcast System came and went without triggering any national disaster or advent of martial law, just as it has every time it has been done before. There had been much speculation in the […]

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Rules of Regency – Part I

Woodburn, Oregon – (I am necessarily in a very compressed West Coast swing because I have to get back for an event at Mt. Meeker scheduled for Oct. 14 and 15. It is a nice, tight schedule, but it prevents me from getting all that I need to do finished in other areas. I am […]

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Just Politics

By Charlie Johnston (Back when I was managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers, my political column that appeared in all papers was entitled, “Just Politics.” The title was actually specific to the newspaper group, having been used by four or five writers over the course of a quarter century. It became so identified […]

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Trinitarian Truths

By Charlie Johnston I had a different column ready to queue up today, but last night this idea hit me powerfully… Of late, I have been bombarded with messages from atheists saying stupid things like, “I wouldn’t follow a God who would kill His own son,” or “A God who would let children suffer is […]

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Beyond the Failsafe

By Charlie Johnston (I have been pondering this piece for several weeks. I think we have entered difficult new territory in an irrevocable way. For those who asked, no, I have not been sick since getting home – just working my way through this piece. It lays out our way forward as I see it. […]

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Truth or Consequences

By Charlie Johnston I was somewhat startled at the reaction to my last piece on my disaffection with Pope Francis and his crew of theological vandals. Oh, I had a few of the usual cranks who explained to me how I am wrong about everything or citing their simplistic literal take on some prophecy to […]

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Cast Off the Cloak of Lies

By Charlie Johnston Pinckney, Michigan – A couple of years ago, while discussing the depravities of the abortion industry with David Daleiden, I exclaimed, “There’s no bottom to this. Every time you think you have gotten to the bottom of something you discover a whole new chamber of horrors hidden beneath what you had already […]

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Injustice For All

By Charlie Johnston Plymouth, Michigan – The purpose of a justice system is…justice. It seems a downright quaint notion in a time when the law has been fully weaponized as a political cudgel against conservatives and Christians, when the FBI has supplanted the Ku Klux Klan as the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, and […]

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