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The January 6 hearings have provided many moving images of the sober and at times purportedly inebriated Rudolf Giuliani, lying about massive voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, that purportedly involved illegal aliens and dead people voting and Rudy...

Today we have nothing unique or special to add to what we’ve previously said about this peculiarly American cult.  That it is religious in nature was observed well before us.  “It was [54] years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band” and us that in the USA “Happiness...

After a break of two months, Hopelessly Liberal is back with a new URL, www.hopelesslyliberal.com, but the same focus on classic liberal principles, viewpoints and aspirations.  These are expressed only when we have special, if not unique, expertise or perspective. In...

Not Sly Stallone, but Governor and Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller of ambivalent but blessed memory.  Oh, for the days of those Rockefeller, Richardson and Javits Republicans.  But that’s a post for another day.  Today we commend to President Biden the way Rocky...

Each news days begins and ends with [The] Ukraine. [1]  We consult the Times, Wash Post, NPR and other relatively reliable sources throughout to follow the ongoing war criminality and resistance.  As we said in HL 151, one day before Russia invaded...

The hypocrisy and timing (that tritely is everything) could not be more nearly perfect.  In Brian Stelter’s February 27, 2022, edition of his weekly show “Reliable Sources” devoted to press quality, ethics, conflicts of interest and objectivity.  Stelter began the...