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Clark keeps saying the right thing Angel Reece from South Carolina University and Caitlin Clark from the University of Iowa have taken their famous college rivalry to the WNBA. And I cannot overstate that professional basketball has not seen the media frenzy they’re generating since Magic Johnson from Michigan State and Larry Bird from Indiana… Read more.
Covering Trump vs. Biden Yesterday, President Biden delivered a speech in Pennsylvania contrasting his Scranton policies to help the poor and middle class with Trump’s Mar-a-Lago policies to enrich the rich and super-rich. But this might come as news to you. That’s because cable news networks were too busy covering Trump’s criminal trial in New York City. New York DA Alvin… Read more.
Carroll’s defamation award The jury in the defamation case E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump handed down its verdict today. A Manhattan jury on Friday ordered former President Donald J. Trump to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in social media posts, news conferences and even on the campaign trail… Read more.
Trump wins Iowa Caucuses in landslide The Iowa Caucuses are meaningless. I’ve argued this point for decades. After all, the winner of this lily-White farce hasn’t won the presidency in nearly 25 years. Case in point, Ted Cruz won in 2016. But Donald Trump won the Republican nomination and the presidency. As widely expected, former… Read more.
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appearing in the federal courthouse that sits just blocks away from where his angry supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to keep him in power. (The Washington Post, August 3, 2023) I’m following up on Tuesday’s post.… Read more.
The Justice Department plans to arrest Donald Trump tomorrow. And media reporting on his pending arrest is redolent with hypocrisy. Even worse, they are warning about Trump and Republican leaders inciting violence. Yet their coverage is inciting that violence. Of course, Trump has given the media cause to broadcast fears about him inciting violence. That’s… Read more.
Colleges treat female athletes as second-class citizens, especially compared with their male counterparts. And one can hardly blame most female athletes for accepting it. After all, even the highly successful and celebrated women’s USA soccer team has been waging a decades-long battle for equal treatment in this respect, to no avail. Sedona Prince exposes NCAA mistreatment The stark difference… Read more.
Justice for Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius became more famous after he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, than he ever was as a track star. It’s like how O.J. Simpson became more famous after he murdered his wife, Nicole Brown, than he ever was as a football player. The fateful symmetry began with Pistorius’s trial. Just like O.J.’s trial in America, the media… Read more.
Donors to Haiti who don’t donate Last January, Haiti was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake, killing an estimated 250,000 people. Still reeling from the aftershocks, the country witnessed global leaders parading their pledges of support for relief and recovery efforts. In that context, I sounded a cautionary, perhaps cynical, note. I warned those managing relief and recovery efforts to beware of… Read more.
