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HL 163 – Professional Soccer Will Not Be a Commercial Success in America Unless/Until End-Game Rules Change
We watched with joy and amazement, along with billions of others last Sunday as Argentina clobbered France for most of the match, that instantly was crowned the “greatest” (men’s) World Cup final. And if that’s plausible – “greatest” – it’s also an almost perfect...
HL 162 – Conventional Math Doesn’t Work in the Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout Swap
The math we constantly hear used in commentary of the Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout prisoner trade is wrongheaded. The erroneous and inapposite calculus does not involve the very dangerous threshold decision about whether or not to make these trades, with...
HL 161 – Should South Carolina Hold The First Democratic Presidential Primary in 2024?
“South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum” AND too red and nutty to hold the first blue primary in 2024. The former was pronounced in 1860 by James Petigru, South Carolina jurist and Attorney General, when his state became the...
HL 160 – New York’s Recipe for Losing the House: 2 Parts Kathy Hochul, 1 AOC and a Pinch of Jay Jacobs
While counting continues out West, it’s virtually certain that Democratic control of the House and Nancy Pelosi’s heroic service as Speaker will end in January. Due to Election 2022 loss of seats in the suburbs and exurbs of New York City. Most regrettably,...
HL 159 – As Bad As Dobbs Is – Bruen is Worse – Much
For most liberals, hopeless or otherwise, the June 23, 2022, SCOTUS decision in NYS Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen (providing constitutional protection for locking, loading and publicly carrying firearms) hit like a 6 on the Richter Scale. But the very next day’s...
HL 158 – Clarence Thomas – From High-Tech Lynching to 18th Century Screwing
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who during his 1991 confirmation hearings charged the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Joe Biden, with a “high tech lynching” has just subjected America to an 18th Century screwing. He did that in his June 23,...