Writer • Speaker • Consultant

The Second Second Date Story

In Featured, Personal on July 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm

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For years I thought I knew the whole story about my parent’s infamous second date.  It turned out I didn’t.

An audio version of this essay was previously featured on Public Radio International and NPR’s The State We’re In.

A Heretic’s Pilgrimage: My Journey to the 2012 Values Voter Summit

In Featured, Politics, Religion on July 22, 2013 at 2:25 am

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In which I travel to the the most prestigious social-conservative shindig of the year to ask the question, is there any way we can become one country again?

Sailing to Irrelevance, Part IV: The Benghazi Scandal vs. The Benghazi Scandal™

In Politics, Uncategorized on July 25, 2013 at 2:08 am

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On election night at Fox News there was one question that was asked over and over by desperate anchors, experts and reporters alike:

Why had the American people ignored the Benghazi story? Or to be more specific, why had their fellow citizens reelected this President despite sweeping coverage of a scandal that conservative media promised would end Obama’s career – if it didn’t put him behind bars first?

It’s a damn good question.