Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Okay, I’m ready. At the bottom of this article I will make my predictions for this election cycle. More often than not, when I make formal predictions, I am eerily on target, picking up on huge undercurrents that no one else does. My best performances were, 1) in 1994, when I predicted […]
Read More And the Winners Are…By Charlie Johnston Late in the colorful baseball career of pitcher Dizzy Dean, a reporter remarked that he wasn’t throwing as hard as he did when he was younger. Dean indignantly responded that he was throwing as hard as he ever did; it just wasn’t getting there as fast. In normal times, I’m pretty good […]
Read More Dizzying DevelopmentsBy Charlie Johnston When something unexpected comes out of left field that utterly confounds conventional analysis, it is called a “Black Swan Event.” In unstable times of great tumult, black swan events become more frequent. Our last two election cycles were marked by significant black swan events. In 2016, for the first time in American […]
Read More A Bevy of Black Swans
