Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – I’m going to try to do briefer pieces every day or two until at least election. Things have gotten so crazy that to try to do any sort of comprehensive stuff is truly like trying to drink from the proverbial fire hose. But we can do some postcards on […]
Read More We’re On Our OwnBy Charlie Johnston Ann Arbor, Michigan – Today, Thursday, Sept. 26, would have been my Dad’s 87th birthday. August 24th would have been my Mom’s 84th birthday. (For those of you clever with math, yes that does mean Dad was 18 when I was born and Mom was 15 – but they had been married […]
Read More Contemplations of a Road WarriorBy Charlie Johnston Omaha, Nebraska – I departed home yesterday for my latest missionary tour. About 70 miles northeast of Denver, a prairie fire swept across the road just before Wiggins, Colorado. After sitting for 15 minutes in the backed-up traffic, my GPS announced that the road ahead was now closed. Taking a gander at […]
Read More The Revolting Jezebel RevoltBy Charlie Johnston Robert Kennedy Jr.’s dramatic suspension of his campaign in order to endorse Donald Trump has the chattering class abuzz. So, let me add my chatter to the mix. Kennedy is not a conservative – and this does not signal a journey towards a conservative conversion for him. What it does signal is […]
Read More The Kennedy Initiative: Who Will Rule?By Charlie Johnston Almost all the political commentators (with the notable exception of Kurt Schlichter at Townhall) are complaining that Donald Trump is complacent about Kamala Harris because he is unusually quiet instead of in full-throated attack mode. This is one of the reasons so many otherwise competent commentators would make such terrible political strategists. […]
Read More Paradigm Shift in ProgressBy Charlie Johnston As the Wizard of Oz found out, once people have seen behind the curtains of your vapid machinations and how hollow your thundering pronouncements are, you can’t fool them with the same tricks anymore. The Wizard was wise enough to come clean. American Democrats in the gutter press and politics have just […]
Read More In Pharaoh’s CourtBy Charlie Johnston For all those who have called and emailed lately, I have not been as responsive as I like to be. I am consumed by final revisions to the CORAC Manual. On Friday I sent out the first section to the executive team and the board for comment and review. Two more are […]
Read More Republicans Must Nationalize the ElectionBy 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 Boy, do I miss the days when the question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” was just rhetorical. These last few months of Francis’ Papacy have reminded me of the closing sequence of The Godfather. In those scenes Michael Corleone piously stands as godfather at his nephew’s baptism, while his henchmen kill off all […]
Read More How Low Can We Go?By Charlie Johnston “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” – old Oxford proverb A few weeks ago, a fellow promised to cut off my tie if I wore one to a dinner I was to attend. Since I was not the main speaker at the event and it was at a […]
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A Sign of Hope 