It has just now been my privilege to have one of those great community experiences that we sometimes have in a small town: My wife and I had our first ...

Sometimes there’s a question so simple that it doesn’t take a lot of work to get to the answer. As a retired lawyer no longer getting paid for my thoughts, ...

This week's blog is a fascinating conversation with a Democratic Party powerhouse who is retiring.  "Whereas last week I focused on the insurrection and the complicity of Congressman Lee Zeldin, ...

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Kamala Harris becoming the first woman vice president in United States history is that it does not feel all that remarkable that a woman ...

One way or another, Donald Trump will face a reckoning for his part in the mob attack on the Capital on January 6th. In a House vote that included ten ...

On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump frequently resorted to verse to make his xenophobic case against immigrants and the supposed threat they bring. The poem “The Snake” is ...

Phil Keith nailed it in his recent Mostly Right column [“A Conspiracy Of Dunces,” Opinion, January 7]. To generalize from Phil’s specific example, the American public, as information consumers, is ...

Watching the horror at the U.S. Capitol last week was déjà vu for me. A number of years ago, I attended a debate, at the Polish Hall in Riverhead, between ...

The insurrection that took place on January 6, as domestic terrorists stormed Capitol Hill, left me speechless and horrified. It also left me furious. First of all, this attempted coup ...

Friends, Help me out here. There’s no one aspect of Wednesday’s events that’s dispositive, but I’m trying to sort out the failure of intelligence, planning and policing that allowed what, ...

It is terribly disappointing, but not at all surprising, that Representative Lee Zeldin would join 125 other members of the House of Representatives in opposing the orderly transfer of the ...

U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin’s credentials include being an attorney, a member of Congress, an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve — and, now, what is likely to be his most ...

Our decidedly less than illustrious, newly reelected congressman, Lee Zeldin, has forcefully confirmed what we’ve suspected all along: There is no length he will not eagerly cross, nor bar too ...

Representative Lee Zeldin does not believe in democracy. This statement is not hyperbole. His actions and words prove it to be true. Mr. Zeldin has been claiming that Donald Trump ...

While I have always known that U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin blindly followed President Trump, no matter where it led, I was extremely disappointed to learn that he penned his name ...

Let’s start, as we should, with three statements of pure, unadulterated fact, a cold splash of unfiltered reality in a time enshrouded by the lazy fog of obfuscation. Joe Biden ...

Lee Zeldin, our recently reelected congressman, chose to add his name to a list of more than 120 other Republican congressmen who signed on to a Texas lawsuit aimed at ...

Since November 3, constant and unsupported allegations of rampant election fraud have been made by President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and dozens of other Republican lawyers and supporters, including Lee Zeldin, ...

Our sense of relief that Trump lost is still palpable and each day, as his rantings become more and more unhinged, that relief grows. The country and our democracy dodged ...

The days following Election Day were excruciating. So many battleground states were too close to call. Clearly, the polls were as wrong at gauging Trump’s support as they had been ...

We live in a time of growing political divide: democracy through the warped lens of 24-hour news (opinion) cycles, and the subsequent regurgitation of those opinions on social media. It ...

Yet again this year, a “straw woman” candidate is on the Republican line on Tuesday’s ballot for the seat in the State Assembly from the 1st District, which includes the ...

Most of my blog posts have focused on the national election. This is not a surprise given the dire state of the country under Trump. But I have not forgotten ...

Nancy Goroff is our enthusiastic choice for the 1st District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democratic newcomer is not just an acceptable alternative to the incumbent, Republican Lee ...

Donald Trump is an evil genius. His debate behavior was his latest deception. He acted like a somewhat normal person. He was out of character. He did what he needed ...