William Murchison
What’s the matter with the Democrats? The Capitol Hill Democrats, in this present case? Yes, I know. Partisanship: That’s what a question of this kind has smeared all over its face: raw, rank preference for capitalist, fascist Republicans over people-loving,…
Not without cause does the Good Book enjoin readers to avoid putting their trust in “princes,” a word we translate in the 21st century to mean “politicians.” The argument over how Christians should practice politics has rarely been more scrambled,…
“China Celebrates Xi Jinping With Fervor Not Seen Since Mao.” — Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2017 And oh, what zeal!: Street-side banners and billboards; a Communist Party publicity tour to celebrate “General Secretary Xi’s words”; official choral performances and…
Rooms full of racket and non-stop commotion drive a person nuts. You want to clap hands over your ears and flee. Like now — from the rowdiness of what Reader’s Digest used to call — still may for aught I…
The messiness of the long-proverbial “mess in Washington” stands out this post-holiday week like a picked and evacuated turkey carcass. To itemize: The tax debate, so called. The furor over who’s to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — assuming…
What? Your Christmas tree hasn’t been up for a week yet? Surely your home is ablaze with red and green and yellow lights? Like the neighbors’ houses? No? Sad (as our president might declare if he gave the matter any…
We were going to have this conversation one of these days — if you consider a barrage of claims, assertions, denials, and calls for resignation a conversation. However, I digress. We were going to find ourselves tied in knots eventually…
That word again — evil. A whiff of sulfur about it; no warmth, no pulse; evil as the actuating force in another mass shooting, with more of it to come, certainly, in this beat-up age of ours. Not a few…
The insider whispering can commence. Has commenced, in fact. Indictments have that effect on the media and its Second Shoe Department. What’s likely to drop next, and where, now that Paul Manafort has drawn the baleful gaze of the special…
“The personal is political,” an army of activists, largely female, has been saying for a couple of decades. This sad and oh-so-modern turn of events is due to the habit of dressing up once-private, once-intimate human attitudes as symbols of…
