Navigating the Wild Stream of Conservative Thought, Part II
Navigating the Wild Stream of Conservative Thought, Part I was published on December 7, 2018. National Review roving correspondent Kevin...
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David Matthews
- Dec 16, 2018
- 6 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, December 15, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible How to Contact Your Elected Representatives At Eternity's Gate is...
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David Matthews
- Dec 9, 2018
- 4 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, December 8, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible How to Contact Your Elected Representatives George H.W. "41" Bush was...
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David Matthews
- Dec 7, 2018
- 10 min
Navigating the Wild Stream of Conservative Thought, Part I
National Review touts itself as a magazine that has defined the conservative movement since it was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in...
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David Matthews
- Dec 2, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, December 1, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible Oregon Yesterday evening I attended an Indivisible Oregon volunteer...
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David Matthews
- Nov 25, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, November 24, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible Oregon Nancy Pelosi has for the moment defused the challenge by a...
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David Matthews
- Nov 21, 2018
- 4 min
An eternal pessimist thinks about climate change and a few other matters
Among the challenges presented by the Trump regime is the sheer scope of mendacity, venality, bad policy, bad faith, bamboozlement,...
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David Matthews
- Nov 18, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, November 17, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Indivisible Oregon I stand corrected. My first thought on the day after last week's midterm...
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David Matthews
- Nov 10, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, November 10, 2018
Rally to protect the Mueller investigation Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon #nobodyisabovethelaw Is it hyperbole to suggest that we are...
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David Matthews
- Nov 8, 2018
- 2 min
The Day After
Yesterday evening an old college pal commented on Facebook that as he watched the election returns it appeared he would run out of beer...
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David Matthews
- Nov 3, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, November 3, 2018
"Whilst men are all for their private profit, the public good is neglected and languisheth." —Cotton Mather Resist Trump Tuesday October...
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David Matthews
- Nov 1, 2018
- 5 min
My Ballot Dilemma
In Oregon we receive our ballots by mail and return them by mail or delivery to designated drop-off locations. The system seems to work...
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David Matthews
- Oct 20, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, October 20, 2018
My anxiety about the November elections is ramping up. I would like to take heart from today's election update provided by...
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David Matthews
- Oct 6, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, October 6, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Kavanaugh redux. We are pretty much where I anticipated we would be last week when the new FBI...
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David Matthews
- Sep 29, 2018
- 4 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, September 29, 2018
Through many a clime 'tis mine to go, With many a retrospection curst; And all my solace is to know, Whate'er betides, I've known the...
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David Matthews
- Sep 22, 2018
- 7 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, September 22, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday September 18, 2018 For quite a while I have felt at odds with the times. Today I think maybe I outright dislike this...
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David Matthews
- Sep 15, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, September 15, 2018
The Brett Kavanaugh nomination saga took another dismal turn yesterday with an anonymous accusation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh...
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David Matthews
- Sep 9, 2018
- 4 min
Code words, poor choice of words, and forbidden speech
Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican candidate for governor, got raked over the coals for race-baiting after he used the words "articulate"...
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David Matthews
- Sep 8, 2018
- 4 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, September 8, 2018
There is an overweening fondness for representing this country as scene of liberty, equality, fraternity, union, harmony, and...
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David Matthews
- Sep 5, 2018
- 2 min
Resist Trump Tuesday September 4, 2018
Sixty-two days until the 2018 midterm elections. Would it be hyperbole to suggest that the fate of American democracy hangs in the...
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