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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...

This issue is so polarizing that the blogger must establish his admiration for the president before writing about it. It, this monumental and regrettable gift President Obama handed PE Trump with America’s abstention on the UN resolution condemning Israel’s settlement...

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...

In March 1970, Roman Hruska of Nebraska, the then ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, rose to defend President Nixon’s nomination of Judge G. Harold Carswell to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, infamously saying: “Even if he were mediocre,...

This post has real nourishment for most Americans – Democrats, real Republicans and the increasing number of Americans who believe that big outcomes are shaped by massive right wing, left wing or Russian conspiracies.  There’s a good chance that Donald Trump will be...

Appointments and nominations for the cabinet are announced or leaked daily.  Reactions range from wholehearted approval to equally heartfelt revulsion to “coulda been much worse.” The one that riveted my attention was Dr. Tom Price, a Congressman from Georgia who will...