Last week the New York Times published its version of a current Trump-related ubiquitous press exercise, self-consciously examining how to characterize the president's constant expression of untruths and implicitly also questioning what to call him - the one who says , honks and tweets them.  The Times has regularly and bravely published headlines and articles that say Trump "lies" and [...]

This week we begin to find out which of President Trump’s campaign and transition promises are real, which just bombast or some combination.  A number involved abortion, including promises to place “pro-life” justices on SCOTUS, deprive Planned Parenthood of any federal funding, sign legislation further restricting pregnant women’s choices and his statement that “there has to be some form [of [...]

Trump on Streep was dead wrong.  The true “Hillary flunky” is Paul Krugman, who in his January 16th op-ed "With All Due Disrespect" predictably echoed the DNC party line about the Congressman John Lewis – PE Trump exchange, that has resulted in a burgeoning parade of house members announcing they will emulate the Georgia civil rights icon and boycott the [...]

The contrast between the outgoing and incoming presidents during their swan and maiden performances on January 10 and 11 was the most severe your blogger and most Americans have ever experienced.  Not saying who appeared smarter, more dignified, gracious, germaphobic, etc. – just that the distance in every area seemed to span light years. In his, PE Trump had assistance, [...]

If Jeff Sessions is the same man rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 and that is powerfully demonstrated, he should and just possibly might be denied confirmation as attorney general.  But, if he’s changed in those 30 plus years, there’s not only no chance of rejection but no reason consistent with the democratic process that resulted in his nomination.  [...]

Hopelessly Liberal’s November 23rd post offered some shelter from the coming storm, in state governments’ ability to advance progressive programs while we “figure out what the hell is going on” in Washington.¹ By virtue of its major nation-sized economy and progressive leadership, California is best situated to help hold things together.  But New York, encompassing the world’s capital, is not [...]

In the mid-1980s, before most could envision the Soviet Union’s collapse, William F. Buckley, National Review publisher and conservative icon, observed that without its military the U.S.S.R. was “a third-world country, sort of an India of the North.”  Buckley was prescient and deadly accurate, about the Soviets at least. Three decades on, the news is filled with claims and fears [...]

Hopelessly Liberal's last post of 2016 channels Paul "Rhymin" Simon, son of your blogger's third grade teacher at P.S. 164 in Queens, who wrote that there must be "50 ways to leave your lover."  Liberals found that many at least, to lose the 2016 presidential election.  While recognizing the not insubstantial contributions of Vladimir Putin, Jim Comey and Alexander Hamilton, [...]