On Tuesdays, this blog site reaches back to the past and brings back an old posting to review and update.  I wrote more than a hundred articles for the  Huffington Post , so I won't be doing this for all of them.  Over the coming Tuesdays I'll pick the most relevant ones only. First of all, what is  The Huffington Post ? In May ,  celebrated  20 years of groundbreaking digital-first journalism . The  Huffington Post  was founded in May of 2005 by Arianna Huffington and others as a progressive alternative to conservative news websites, such as the  Drudge Report . In the early days, most of the news reports for the  Huffington Pos t came from unpaid bloggers like me.  I don't quite remember how I got recruited, but my contributions began in 2008.   SIMPLE SOLUTION ESSAYS  is a compilation of the first 75 papers. The company was acquired by AOL in 2011 for $313 million. Also in 2011,  Jonathan Tasini on behalf of b...

Well, President Donald Trump did sign-off on the executive orders he promised during his campaign.   Here is the list .  Uncertain how any one or group can prevent them from becoming reality, but a few are trying: 18 states ( of course, Democratic ones ) have challenged Trump on his order cutting birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants.   The attorney generals of those states said that the President has no authority to nullify a constitutional amendment.  150,000 such births occur annually.  This matter will be settled by the Supreme Court. Trump's first fire  was in removing Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan.  Trump's early contention was he be doing this to promote diversity.  What an idiotic first choice, for she is the only female officer at this high level in the Administration. For those so interested, from TIME, the  best inauguration photos.   Here is one. 19July2009 was a particularly tragic d...