What Wrestling History Can Teach Us

What Wrestling History Can Teach Us

I’ve just finished Taylor Branch’s book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with The President. Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the King Years Trilogy, finished the book in 2009. It contains 667 pages of intimate details taken from seventy-nine secret,...
Three Post Updates

Three Post Updates

Here are three quick updates to earlier posts, with several hyperlinks to excellent resources. Progressives: What Does Abortion Have To Do With Economic Policy? The movie Unplanned is now available on streaming video and on DVD. Whatever your thoughts on the subject,...
“911 Live” Becomes “First Responders Live”

“911 Live” Becomes “First Responders Live”

In my first novel, On The Edge, written 27 years ago, there is a fictional broadcast television show called 911 Live, featuring barely filtered live shots from first responders’ bodycams in ten cities across the nation. Janet Sullivan, the protagonist’s...
How President Trump Can Win One for the Nation in 2020

How President Trump Can Win One for the Nation in 2020

We seem to be headed for a repeat of 2016’s very difficult election choice in 2020, only with the contrasts even more sharply drawn. It’s no longer conjecture whether Donald Trump’s narcissism and petty treatment of others is just a passing anomaly—it’s really him....