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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...