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HL 18 – Schumer as Hamlet in the Gorsuch Nomination
The moment has come for Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats to be or not. They and we have experienced the result of their reasonableness. We live with the result of their appeal to the electorate on that basis. They pointed to the unconstitutional intransigence...
HL 17 – The Importance of What We Call the Man Whose Pants are On Fire
Last week the New York Times published its version of a current Trump-related ubiquitous press exercise, self-consciously examining how to characterize the president's constant expression of untruths and implicitly also questioning what to call him - the one who says...
HL 16 – An Uncomfortable Reason Abortions Have Declined
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...
HL 15 – The John Lewis – Donald Trump Battle is Not All Black and White
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...
HL 14 – Emoluments, Legal Prostitutes and Tax Law 101
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,...
HL 13 – Has Jeff Sessions Changed? – The Only Question
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...







