February 15, 2014 --

LPR Remembers "The Gates"

Central Park, February - March 2005

February 15, 2014 --

LPR Wonders ...
 
... Should international comity require that where the head of France is named Hollande, the head of Holland should be named France?

February 15, 2014 --

A Description of Two Countries?
 
Rich Lowry, in the New York Post, February 11, discussed a "country's oligarchic government, its meltdown in public health and its economic dysfunction. Curiously, Mr. Lowry was referring to Russia and not the the U.S.

February 15, 2014 --

Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street White Rescuing Wall Street
 
How can a book with that title -- by Neil Barofsky -- not be a Federalist No. 57 kind of book?

Accordingly, LPR plans to write about the book, now in paperback -- Free Press, next posting.

February 1, 2014 --

Is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a Morsi-ist?
 
Morsi-ism -- named for Egypt's former president Mohamed Morsi -- is defined by LPR as the tendency to pursue, on election to high office, one's ideological preferences notwithstanding their great distance from political consensus.

February 1, 2014 --

Advice to Conservatives
 
Discard the language of the political left. They are leftists, not progressives. A media that moves in lockstep with leftist politicians is a leftwing media, not a mainstream media. And aren't comments that are "politically correct" really comments adhering to the leftist party line?