Political Dispatches
May the Scales Fall Off Our Eyes
Not written to tell you what to think. Written to get you to think at all. Every one of these is free, start to finish.
Where the Series Began
The Temptation
Why these dispatches were written in the first place. 8 minutes to read.
Read The TemptationWar and Accountability
Money, power, and the questions a citizen is entitled to ask.
- 1 Are We Creating Another Iran? 13 min
- 2 Who Profits From the War? 3 min
- 3 History Doesn’t Lie. Politicians Do. 9 min
- 4 The Cost of an Oath 4 min
- 5 Before You Send My Son 1 min
- 6 When the Mule Gets Out of the Barn 3 min
- 7 We Live in the Bubble 6 min
- 8 When Inflation Becomes a Celebration 3 min
- 9 Questioning Is Not Betrayal 7 min
- 10 The House Divided 7 min
- 11 Not on My Watch 6 min
- 12 Taking a Stand 4 min
- 13 Waggle Dance 10 min
- 14 A Call for Disciplined Leadership and De-escalation 3 min
- 15 Are You Required to Be Mean and Hateful? 1 min
- 16 Call for Accountable Leadership 3 min
- 17 Wisdom from a Grandson, Dedicated to John McCain 4 min
- 18 Character First: A Christian Standard for Leadership 4 min
- 19 Loss of Leadership 3 min
- 20 The Rest of the Story 6 min
- 21 Fathers’ Moral Requirements / Citizens’ Moral Requirements 3 min
- 22 Historical Progression: How a Democracy Became a Dictatorship 5 min
Sources. Ron’s intent is that every dispatch carries the
documents behind it so a reader can check the claims. Most do not yet. Where a
piece has no sources listed, it is because they have not been supplied —
not because there are none.