Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston A couple of days ago. CNN’s newest anti-Trump activist, Caitlin Collins appeared on Stephen Colbert’s late night show. She ‘explained’ how Donald Trump is fumbling and struggling with how to attack Kamala Harris, an accomplished black woman. Colbert leaned into her and said, seriously, that “we all know that CNN is objective […]
Read More Dead Press Talking(I am delighted to share this piece today, dealing with fighting a coverup of major medical decline in a sitting official, by Andrea Zinga, one of my favorite people in the world. In the tale she tells below, I was her campaign manager in both general election campaigns. Though I advised her informally in her […]
Read More Just Don’t LookBy Charlie Johnston On May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the first apparition at Fatima, a crazed man tried and failed to assassinate Pope St. John Paul the Great. St. John Paul later credited Our Lady with redirecting the intended fatal bullet. On Saturday, July 13, 2024, the anniversary of the third apparition at Fatima, […]
Read More The Sound of Distant Thunder Draws NearBy 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…
A Sign of Hope 