David Matthews Portable Bohemia

Navigating the Wild Stream of Conservative Thought, Part I was published on December 7, 2018. National Review roving correspondent Kevin...

Resist Trump Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible How to Contact Your Elected Representatives At Eternity's Gate is...

Resist Trump Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible How to Contact Your Elected Representatives George H.W. "41" Bush was...

National Review touts itself as a magazine that has defined the conservative movement since it was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in...

Resist Trump Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible Oregon Yesterday evening I attended an Indivisible Oregon volunteer...

Resist Trump Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Take Action with Indivisible Oregon Nancy Pelosi has for the moment defused the challenge by a...

Among the challenges presented by the Trump regime is the sheer scope of mendacity, venality, bad policy, bad faith, bamboozlement,...

Resist Trump Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Indivisible Oregon I stand corrected. My first thought on the day after last week's midterm...

Rally to protect the Mueller investigation Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon #nobodyisabovethelaw Is it hyperbole to suggest that we are...

Yesterday evening an old college pal commented on Facebook that as he watched the election returns it appeared he would run out of beer...

"Whilst men are all for their private profit, the public good is neglected and languisheth." —Cotton Mather Resist Trump Tuesday October...

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...

My anxiety about the November elections is ramping up. I would like to take heart from today's election update provided by...

Resist Trump Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Kavanaugh redux. We are pretty much where I anticipated we would be last week when the new FBI...

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...

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...

The Brett Kavanaugh nomination saga took another dismal turn yesterday with an anonymous accusation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh...

Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican candidate for governor, got raked over the coals for race-baiting after he used the words "articulate"...

There is an overweening fondness for representing this country as scene of liberty, equality, fraternity, union, harmony, and...

Sixty-two days until the 2018 midterm elections. Would it be hyperbole to suggest that the fate of American democracy hangs in the...