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Archives for May 2024

Donald J. Trump: Guilty, Guilty … 34 Times

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts

Donald Trump, convicted felon! I was convinced there would be at least one holdout, making this a hung jury. I was wrong. But rarely have I been so happy to be proven so. Donald J. Trump has made history by breaking all kinds of presidential norms. So perhaps it’s fitting that he has made history… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 34 felony counts, criminal justice, Donald Trump guilty, historic verdict, rule of law, Trump conviction

NCAA Paying Student-Athletes: Fairness Delayed but Not Denied?

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
collage of college sports superimposed over image of Benjamin Franklin bank note

Paying student-athletes Amateurism in college sports has always been akin to puritanism in escort services. But on Thursday, college sports finally gave up the charade. The NCAA and the Power Five athletic conferences agreed to pay student-athletes. And the legal right student-athletes won recently to profit from their name, image, and likeness  (NIL) will be the… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: athlete compensation, athlete pay, college athletes, college sports, NCAA, NCAA lawsuit, sports law

Continental Shame: Africans Travel More Freely in Europe than in Africa

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Africa's richest man complaining about need visas to travel through Africa

Nightmare for Africans traveling in Africa  Forbes ranks Aliko Dangote as the richest man in Africa. He does business in many African countries. Yet, traveling between them, Dangote must feel like a Mexican migrant trying to navigate the bureaucratic maze between the United States and Mexico. Nigerian-born Aliko Dangote complains he faces far more hurdles crossing Africa… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: African travel restrictions, African unity, Aliko Dangote visa issues, historical African disunity, preferential treatment of foreigners in Africa

Gun Laws in Turks and Caicos Proving Tougher on Tourism than Crime 

Friday, May 17, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
tourists arriving in Turks and Caicos Island and image of police rounding up Haitian migrants

Gun laws in TCI: tourists, beware The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) police arrested another American tourist on Monday for illegal possession of ammunition. No gun was involved. That marked their fifth arrest for the same ammo crime this year. ‘They have all maintained that they did not intend to bring ammunition into Turks and Caicos,’… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: ammunition possession, gang activity, gang violence, law enforcement, prison sentences, TCI crime, tourism impact, tourism revenue, tourist arrests, Turks and Caicos gun laws

MAGA Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker’s ‘Handmaiden’ Commencement Address

Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivering commencement address and image of Mahomes and Kelce

Make women barefoot and pregnant again The kicker on a football team is like the coxswain on a rowing team — they play a key role. But if you ranked 25 NFL positions by importance, the kicker would be no higher than 22. In other words, they’re among the most expendable players. Indeed, teams famously show little patience if a kicker lets… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 1950s values, Chiefs fans backlash, football controversy, Harrison Butker, Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, NFL controversy, NFL kicker, Patrick Mahomes, Taylor Swift, traditional values

In Trump’s GOP, Men Have No Shame and Even Less Pride

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump's VP wannbes attending his trial in New York City.

Trump’s GOP A picture is worth a thousand words, and no picture affirms that adage more than the one featured below. It shows the cowards’ gallery of Trump’s VP wannabes heeding his summons. He wanted them to prove their loyalty by showing up at the courtroom where he’s on trial for paying hush money to a porn star.  Any self-respecting… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Democracy, GOP loyalty, Republican shame, Republican sycophancy, Trump trial, Trump's dictatorship, Trump's GOP, VP wannabes

Biden’s Feckless Threat to Stop Supplying Weapons to Israel

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Biden looking troubled over conflict in Gaza and image inset of Netanyahu vowing to continue his war.

Biden’s feckless threat  President Biden threatened to stop supplying offensive weapons to Israel if it invades Rafah. Over a million Palestinians fled there after Israel invaded northern Gaza. Both Republicans and Democrats are making much ado about this threat:  Republicans are accusing Biden of betraying Israel. They’re virtue signaling by drafting legislation in a vain attempt to force… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Biden, Gaza, genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestinians, Rafah, US foreign policy, weapons

Cohen vs. Trump: Michael Cohen Is Too Zealous to Testify

Monday, May 13, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Michael Cohen to testify against Trump

Cohen for the prosecution  Michael Cohen is a meathead. He’s so blinded by revenge that he broke his own vow of silence on Trump in less than 48 hours. Worse still, like Trump, Cohen is such a reckless narcissist, he couldn’t care less he’s undermining the prosecutor’s case. So, I fully expect him to lose his cool on the stand this week and blow… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Cohen vs. Trump, hung jury, legal drama, MAGA polarization, Michael Cohen testimony, political trials, Trump trial

This Is My Twenty-Fifth Motherless Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Mother's Day gifts and image of Anna Jarvis inset

Happy Mother’s Day is a national contrivance US President Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. But one wonders why he was the first to honor mothers in this way in May 1914. Why didn’t any of his predecessors make this proclamation to honor mothers? Perhaps Wilson was merely the first president shameless enough to exploit… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Anna Jarvis, anti-Mother's Day sentiment, commercialization of Mother's Day, cultural criticism of holidays, Mother's Day, Mother's Day commercial impact, Mother's Day critique, personal reflections on Mother's Day, Woodrow Wilson

Stormy Spanks Trump’s Lawyer in Court After Spanking Him in Bed

Friday, May 10, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Images of Stormy Daniels testifying at Trump's hush money trail win image of Trump speaking outside the court inset.

Stormy spanks Trump’s lawyer This week, porn star Stormy Daniels performed quite a snow job in court. She was the star witness for the prosecution at Trump’s hush money/election interference trial in New York.  I’ll skip the salacious details. Just know that Daniels testified about their infamous hotel room tryst, which included her spanking Trump. The point is that, on… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: celebrity news, courtroom drama, Donald Trump, hush money trial, legal showdown, Stormy Daniels, Susan Necheles, Trump lawsuit

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