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HL 202 – Take What You’re Hearing About the S.A.L.T. Deduction With More Than a Few Grains
Among the scores of lies Republicans in Congress are spewing about Trump’s budget bill, there is one that has gone virtually unchallenged by congressional Democrats. First the lie, then the why – those feckless Democrats don’t touch it. The lie is about the S.A.L.T....
HL 201 – Zohran Mamdani meet Mario Procaccino, The Ghost of Election Future
There both is less and more than meets the eye in last Tuesday's variously-styled primary “bombshell” “tornado” or “watershed moment.” Then New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani came first in an eleven-person Democratic mayoral primary contest and almost assured he...
HL 200 – The Roland Garros Finals and A Moment for Women’s Sports
Serena Williams’ pronouncement the other day that “Women’s sports is having a moment” stimulated this review of the women’s and men’s Roland Garros finals, contested last weekend in Paris. The first tennis commentary HL has made in a long time, due mostly to our...
HL 199 – The Press is Normalizing Big Brother Trump
There are cons and pros to the Media’s atavistic, lazy and repetitive reports of Trump’s stream of lies, tantrums, taunts and violations of law, constitutional and other. But adopting the Orwellian names he gives to policies and events is utterly without redeeming...
HL 198 – Trump Is Feigning Concern About Anti-Semitism to Disguise His Assault on Liberal Education – But
In HL 191, “The Jewish People Would Have A Lot To Do With A Loss If I’m At 40%” (9/23/2024). I nominated and elected Trump the “Anti-Jew” saying “[w]hen I think about virtually everything my parents taught me about being a good person and a good Jew, Trump shapes up...
HL 197 – Are Your Paychecks So Dear or His Feet So Sweet?
Awaking from our long Winter’s nap with HL 196 (3/31/2025) we commented at length about “what not to do” in opposition to Trump - citing as prime exemplars, Chuck Schumer, Columbia University and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, the law firm easily...