Bill Murchison

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Bill Murchison
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The Bad and the Good
By Bill Murchison
And on ... and on ...... And, yes! One fine day, as with the Noah family's detention on the ark, ...
November 24, 2020
Liberty and Thanksgiving
By Bill Murchison
Editor's Note: This is an updated version of a column published in 2015.The first Christmas tree on our block popped ...
November 17, 2020
Equality Babble
By Bill Murchison
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."Or do we?At the end of a long, ...
November 10, 2020
Journey's End
By Bill Murchison
I have tried to think of something appropriate to say upon the end of this endeavor at saving Western civilization ...
November 04, 2020
The Miracle of ... Freedom
By Bill Murchison
The phoniness of big-government politics was on conspicuous display during the final presidential debate. Note the adjective "big-government." Not Democratic ...
October 26, 2020
The Oldest Temptation in the Book
By Bill Murchison
Back to where we left off the other day: democracy's varied discontents staring us straight in our blurred and reddening ...
October 21, 2020
Some Belated Encounters With Reality
By Bill Murchison
With Joe Biden poised -- so say the augurers -- to oust Donald Trump from the White House, we might ...
October 13, 2020
The Return of Court Packing
By Bill Murchison
History! Don't we know by this stage in the Damn-demic Era that history is what you make up to push ...
October 06, 2020
A Strong Christian for the High Court
By Bill Murchison
What else could go wrong in America?You will note I am not bothering, pedantically, with citing current examples, there being ...
September 29, 2020
Notorious Views of the Notorious RBG
By Bill Murchison
If Ken Starr, in The Wall Street Journal, praises his late friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg as humane, conscientious and just ...
September 22, 2020
Cooling Off on Protest
By Bill Murchison
We live in the age of assertion. Nothing requires proof -- least of all a claim about racial injustice, such ...
September 15, 2020
The Liars Among Us
By Bill Murchison
The impeccably credentialed National Association of Scholars, which strives for, among other things, truth in academic discourse, focused in a ...
September 01, 2020
It's a Long Life -- Right, Joe?
By Bill Murchison
I think I'll walk wide of heated conversations about Joe Biden's mental acuity, given my lack of standing as a ...
August 25, 2020
Time for Moral Pushback
By Bill Murchison
Wheee! It's election time. Let the invective start -- the execrations, the exaggerations and the expostulations. That's what we do ...
August 18, 2020
'Me, Me, Me!': Our New Theme Song
By Bill Murchison
Well, sort of. Up to a point.The upside of any disaster is the schoolroom it supplies for the acquisition of ...
August 11, 2020
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