The Donaghy Scandal: ESPN challenges the NBA on the number
ESPN’s just released a story on Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who conspired with several to fix NBA games. In it, ESPN concluded that – notwithstanding the NBA and Donaghy’s continuous denial of fixing games – the evidence overwhelmingly leads to that conclusion. It also concluded that Donaghy and others were enriched to the tune […]
Trump’s Border Wall Funding Will be Shut Down
According to President Trump, a border wall is necessary because the United States is suffering “an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it’s unacceptable.” He has declared a “state of emergency” and intends to pull funding from other areas of government to fund his controversial border wall. His actions are clearly […]
AMI crosses the extortion line
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, posted a blog post on Medium claiming that the publishers of the National Enquirer, AMI, extorted him when it threatened to release compromising pictures of him unless he shut down his investigation of leaks to AMI. Do those acts of AMI constitute extortion? Extortion is where: (i) one obtains “property” from […]
NYC Gets Tough on Airbnb Brokers
The City of New York hit Metropolitan Property Group, a real estate brokerage firm, with a $21 million law suit yesterday, accusing the firm of using Airbnb to illegally rent apartments in over 30 buildings in Manhattan. According to the complaint, the Metropolitan Property Group facilitated over 13,000 rentals through Airbnb, housing more than 75,000 […]
Be(zos) Prepared!
If any pre-marital couple ever questions whether they should enter into a pre-nuptial agreement, they can look no further than Jeff Bezos’s plight. That is, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, who announced they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, did not have a prenuptial agreement — meaning they will divide their […]
Federal Courts About to Shut Down!
With no end in sight on the government shut down and our President declaring that it could continue for months, or even years, the entire federal judiciary will shortly be in crisis! That is, the federal courts, which were set to run out of cash this Friday, now have one extra week remaining. So, if […]
The Trump Wall: It’s All Ego
The president’s in a bit of a pickle. First, he proclaimed Mexico would pay for the wall. Recently, he proclaimed that he would “own” the shutdown. Now he’s trying to shift the blame to the Democrats despite Republican control of the House and Senate. And he has recently tweeted that he is standing his ground. […]
Its Not Mueller v. Trump
What the country has to understand is that this is not a battle between Robert Mueller and Donald Trump. This is an investigation by the Department of Justice of Donald Trump. By that I mean that it’s not only the Mueller team that is performing the investigation. It is the United States United Attorney’s Office […]
CNN Strikes Back
CNN filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s access to the White House. The suit names Trump and Sanders along with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly; Bill Shine, the deputy chief of staff who handles communications; and […]
Will Celebrities Make a Difference in 2018?
While Republicans believe that the Democrats are making the same 2016 mistake by having celebrities speak on political issues and get out the vote, they may very well be wrong. That is, the blanket conclusion that the Democrats are wasting their time having celebrities stomp pre-election week ignores two very important criteria: (i) the difference […]
