I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
My teen hijinks were silly fun, not alcohol-fueled drunken groping
Think ‘Tea Party’ will change D.C.? Do you remember the ‘New Right’
Little green soldiers on cupcakes mean trouble for Mich. third grader
I’m paralyzed by fear my choices won’t match needs of future wife
My mother was more impressive than my father led me to believe
What kind of person are you if there’s not a word to define you?
2-day-old baby reminds me that miracles still happen every day
State-based ‘aid culture’ makes people believe they’re entitled to other people’s money
Without hope for a better future, depression grabs us by the throat