Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston When doing serious political work I used to spend a lot of time in busy diners in various locales, pretending to read a newspaper while actually listening to the random conversations around me. It gave me a candid snapshot of what people were saying to each other when not concerned with what […]
Read More Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?By Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – Time for a couple of reality checks… First, the victory for pro-abortionists in conservative Ohio – by 13 points no less – means that pro-abortion politics is, indeed, driving turnout for the left. But it is not driving turnout from the right. The question is, “Why?” Let’s start with […]
Read More American Politics Isn’t Broke – It’s FixedBy Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado – Perhaps the nicest thing about the new reality following the butchery by Hamas in Israel is the moral clarity it brings. If someone openly supports Hamas, calls for a ceasefire (to give Hamas time to reload), or asks me to think about the children Hamas uses as human shields […]
Read More The Devil is in the DetailsBy Charlie Johnston I am primarily an autodidact, someone who is self-taught. I have some formal training, primarily in history and economics, but in most everything else my work is entirely the result of my own constant study since nearly the time I began to read. The virtue of an autodidact is that he often […]
Read More A Path to WisdomBy Charlie Johnston Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re wondering: does this title refer to the subject Charlie is going to cover today or to the length of the piece? Well, let’s get to a few ancillary observations, then the subject and see how long the piece ends up being… The left is in a […]
Read More War and PeaceBy Charlie Johnston On Thursday, Joe Biden’s Injustice Dept. and its Gestapo arm, the FBI, raided dozens of people associated with Donald Trump’s White House and campaign staff. Steve Bannon was the first to break the story of this huge escalation in the White House war to outlaw all opposition – after he surrendered on […]
Read More Baby Police State Bites HarderBy Charlie Johnston When I was in my mid-teens I developed a tactic I have used to great political effect throughout my life. Ironically, I suppose, I called it, “playing the prophet,” (though it has nothing to do with any sort of mysticism. Maybe a little inside joke with myself. I do tend to sprinkle […]
Read More All the King’s Horses…By Charlie Johnston In his influential Revolutionary War pamphlet, “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine argued that it is dangerously stupid to conflate society and government – that they are two very different concepts: “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;” he said, “the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections. […]
Read More The Rules are ChangingBy Charlie Johnston I am working on a big piece. In the fits and starts I go through while on the road, the trouble is the balance between getting something up and giving it the time and care it needs to be just right. Besides this site, I do a piece for the newsletter every […]
Read More Joyfully Plugging Away on the Road to MordorBy Charlie Johnston I was involved in an auto accident Sunday that could have been – and possibly should have been – fatal. I came out of it unscathed – and my car came out of it practically unscathed, too. I was eastbound on I-40, around 10 miles out of Amarillo. I was going 75 […]
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A Sign of Hope 