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While signing into law the blatantly and comically unconstitutional requirement that the Top Ten Judeo-Christian DOs and DON’Ts be displayed in every Louisiana public school classroom, Governor Jeff Landry said, “If you want to respect the rule of law. . . you’ve got...

How many score times have you read and heard reports that Rafah, where Israel is poised for a major offensive against Hamas, is a place where civilians from other parts of Gaza took refuge and were told to do that by Israel. And how many times, save right here, has it...

Like the observation in HL 179 (1/17/2024) that “no American roughly my age [just] north of 75 has not had a close relationship with the atomic bomb their entire life” we ancients have another longstanding relationship that we are thinking about – the student activism...

Regular readers of Hopelessly Liberal know that the enterprise is defining and promoting classic American liberalism, as the best way toward forming that more perfect union. The reason I occasionally eulogize certain especially great liberals is to show how their...

In Yiddish literally head of a Gentile and figuratively idiot.  When the going gets tough you forget the basics.  This time, regardless your opinion of Benjamin Netanyahu – pretty much the same as mine-[1] he is the elected president of a democracy and important...

I haven’t closely followed Ivy League basketball since antiquity, when true scholar-athletes like Bill Bradley, Heyward Dotson (both Rhodes Scholars) and Jim McMillian led their teams into the NCAA season ending tourney and even its “final four”.  The last Dartmouth...