May 19, 2017 --

A Brief Mideast Memo to President Trump . . .

LPR strongly advises that on the occasion of your May 22 visit to the State of Israel you disregard the “land for peace” formula as a diplomatic nullity because it implies that Israel gets peace and the Arabs get land. Don’t the Arabs also get peace? Peace that applies symmetrically to all the parties will take into account all the realities since the Arabs rejected the 1947 United Nations Partition for Palestine and went to war to prevent the establishment of the Jewish State. The conflict did not begin in June 1967.

Political party cover-up . . .

The New York Times reported, May 12 on a criminal conviction in Florida that began:“Corrine Brown, a fmrer long-time Unied States representative from Florida, was convicted on Thursday of taking for herself thousands of dollars in donations that were mean to fund student scholarships.” The news account consisted of more than ten paragraphs, and included the details of the former congresswoman’s conviction for fraud and conspiracy. Readers were not, however, given Ms. Brown’s political affiliation. Anyone think the Times would have omitted mentioning the political party had this former Democrat congresswoman been a Republican?

Concerning the Clinton complaints . . .

The New York Times, its lead story June 3, 2016 reported that the “core argument” of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign would be that Donald Trump was “unfit” to be president. LPR further recalls that Ms. Clinton’s other significant campaign promises included her vow to overturn the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision, and her promise to provide free college tuition.

Are we now to believe that Ms. Clinton was duped either by James Comey or V. Putin into running a presidential campaign so distant from the concerns of ordinary Americans (known to Ms. Clinton as “deplorables”)?

May 5, 2017 --

To LPR clicksters todo el mundo -

Happy Fifth of May

Attention Manhattan IRT Riders
Blue's "Corner Stores:
In the Middle of the Block" ...

On April 3rd, LPR purchased a copy of Blue's book, while heading to 125th Street, near Park Avenue, for some stationery supplies. Blue was selling this book, along wioth another one, on the No. 2 train (or was it the No. 3 train?). It was fitting that I should have met him on the subway which, in part, seems to be his Muse. ( For more information-- please go to Facebook.com/bradbathgate).

Is there no limit to anti-Trumpism at The New York Times?

Glenn Thrush in the Times, April 26, reporting President Trump’s April 25 remarks at “an annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony” -- “During Tuesday’s ceremony at the Capitol, the president enunciated the word ‘Nazi’ in an unusual way, pronouncing it with a ‘z’ sound instead of the ‘tz’ sound as is typically done.” LPR wonders if G. Thursh will suggest, next, that Winston Churchill – who also used the “z” pronounciation, was actually an agent for Hitler?