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Hail to the Chief.  Not the pretender at 1600 Pennsylvania, but the real one who presides over SCOTUS at 1 First Street NE.  When an honest and comprehensive history of the nasty and brutish Trump administration is chronicled, years from now, Wednesday November 21,...

There are many reasons why people like Elizabeth Warren, who is whiter than Ivory Soap, and Donald Trump of German ancestry, but who claimed to be a Swede, make false claims about their ethnic, national, racial or socio-economic identities.  We all have met these...

H.L. does not post about things where we don’t possess real knowledge, experience or unique perspective.  For example, nothing about the long-term prospects of the latest royal marriage.  And despite having been around the SCOTUS pool a few times – via oral argument,...

Nine years after Michael Jackson’s death, his testimony overwhelms the memory of his creative and performative genius.  More than his Moonwalk or Thriller video I hear him describing the refiner’s fire that forged perfection on stage, video and in recordings.  No...

This hopeless liberal’s examination of professions that best prepare people to serve as legislators and in other elected offices began when John Dunne (from Long Island not “no man is an island” Donne) once Republican majority whip in the New York Senate assigned the...

After reading about, then hearing, finally watching Trump’s “why would they” and accompanying remarks from the post-coital 7/16/18 Helsinki news conference, H.L. experienced a series of reactions that corresponded to 80% of the Kübler-Ross stages of grief.  Acceptance...