Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston (This piece incorporates a message I sent out privately to TNRS leaders a week ago. Though many of you help refine my thinking and my expression of my thoughts, I give special thanks to Steve BC who helped me greatly in refining my thoughts reflected in this piece-CJ) I have had both […]
Read More Summer Swelters, Duty EnduresBy Charlie Johnston It was in late June of 1973 when I became, overnight, a Republican. The Watergate scandal was raging and picking up steam that summer. I had just finished my junior year in high school and was attending the National Association of Student Council’s Conference in Colorado Springs. When I arrived at the […]
Read More Watergate and the Deep StateBy Charlie Johnston Ironically, the Inspector General’s (IG) Report released yesterday had profound echoes to former FBI Director James Comey’s exoneration press conference for Hillary Clinton: it is brutal in its list of devastating evidence but modest in the conclusions it draws from those stark facts. Unlike Comey’s press conference – and contrary to many […]
Read More Public Trust is Withering AwayBy Charlie Johnston I have taken on a couple of intense projects so have been out of pocket for a week. Sorry. ******* For decades, the bulk of the movies and TV thrillers I watched invariably, in the end, revealed the bad guy to be, A) the businessman, B) an NRA member, C) a pro-life […]
Read More The World Turned Rightside Up – Short TakesBy Charlie Johnston On Easter of 2008, I saw the Lord at the Vigil. He said to me, “Now the hour of darkness comes upon the world, but be not afraid: the darkness will not prevail.” Whew, this has been one LONG hour! All who value the culture of life were deeply disheartened at Ireland’s […]
Read More The Blackest Minutes of the Hour of DarknessBy Charlie Johnston (I wrote this little poem after I heard the decision in Ireland. It is not polished – I completed it in an hour. But it is how I felt and what I hope) A Lament for Ireland ‘Twas the last wall to fall, As the earth’s axis shifted, To the Lord of […]
Read More A Lament for Ireland – And us AllBy Charlie Johnston Midweek I had a recurrence of an intestinal flu from a week ago. Kind of miserable and I don’t get much done. But I have a couple of observations that might be useful. ******* It was six years ago yesterday that my Mother passed on. The calendar that year was configured exactly […]
Read More Legacies – Short TakesBy Charlie Johnston Last Thursday I wrote that Rudy Giuliani’s lengthy interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night was the kickoff of the serious counter-attack by the Trump administration against the serial assaults of the Deep State’s coup attempt – that now the conspirators were going to be shocked to find themselves held to account […]
Read More Wheels Coming off the Mueller TrainBy Charlie Johnston I watched Rudy Giuliani’s lengthy interview with Sean Hannity last night with a politician’s eye. It was HUGE (or YUGE as a fellow big on the public scene might say). This is the beginning of President Trump’s serious assault on the Deep State. This, I think, may well be the month when […]
Read More Giuliani Launches Real Trump Counter-AttackBy Charlie Johnston No matter what Robert Mueller dredges up, I will stand with Donald Trump and the legitimately elected government. It wasn’t always that way. Two years ago, I opposed Trump; a year and a half ago, I regarded him with disdain; now I stand foursquare behind him, warts and all. That is because […]
Read More On the Bank of the Rubicon – Short Takes
A Sign of Hope 