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HL 123 – 1/6/2021 Was Another Sign That Ending The Draft Was The Gift that Keeps On Giving
As the FBI led hunt for the 1/6/2021 Capitol insurrectionists proceeds, we daily learn that additional active or retired members of the U.S. military were among the planners, coordinators and rioters. Last Tuesday’s poster child was a 46-year-old retired Navy Seal,...
HL 122- Trumpism Is The Perfection Of The Reagan Playbook
The spate of resignations by high level Trump appointees at 11:59 pm of the administration’s term has been noticed and noted as tardy and hypocritical. But little attention has been paid to a more insidious form of forgetfulness. Trumpism did not spring...
HL 121 – Joe Biden, We Need You on the Wall Between Church and State
Lefties like HL are quick to condemn erosion of Jefferson’s strict wall between church and state, enshrined in absolute terminology in the first phrase of the First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”) and usually assign all...
HL 120 – New Year’s Resolutions: For HL, Never Title Your Book “Plague Year” Unless There’s a Plague, For the USA, Never Again
The January 4 & 11, 2021 New Yorker is almost entirely devoted to a single 40 page article by Lawrence Wright aptly titled “Plague Year.” It brought to mind two other titles, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and HL’s own 2010 and 2012 Journal of The Plague Year that...
HL 119 – Ramallah, Jersey City and West 72nd Street
The Washington Post has performed a public service by keeping count of the number of falsehoods and outright lies future inmate Donald Trump Sr. has told the American public while president: 22,000 as of last month. One lie that he told before the 2016 election, but...
HL 118 – Trump Trashes Transition
Leaving aside the unanswerable of whether God is a subscriber (See HL 117) we turn to elective office transition, a subject we have not insubstantial experience with. We chaired the transition of two different state attorneys general and one governor, all in New...
