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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...

The standard comparison these days for Ukraine’s predicament, i.e., looking across the border, at almost 200,000 Russian soldiers, is to the Sudetenland in September 1938.  When/then Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain, and he agreed to Germany’s demand for the...

As in our first Black History Month Edition (HL 68, published 2/25/2019) commended to you because of its continuing relevance, this second edition commemorates BHM not by recounting or revisionistically interpreting the stuff we’ve been fed and told to acknowledge,...

“Let’s start at the very beginning – a very good place to start”[1] and for this newsletter that means HL 1 on November 15, 2016, where we reported that Sidney Poitier was a motivator and influencer for the entire Hopelessly Liberal endeavor.  We said: “By 1992...