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By BRUCE LOWITT Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has formally acknowledged that his unannounced but presumptive candidacy for president is modeled “from first step to last” on the successful rise of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s autocratic prime minister. “I have read Prime Minister Orban’s Roadmap to Power and I have found it quite engaging,” DeSantis said. “HisContinue reading “DeSantis: Freedom’s just another word”

By BRUCE LOWITT The Jets will give him an entire floor of his choice and a private elevator in New York’s One World Trade Center. The Saints will give him one quarter of the New Orleans French Quarter for his personal use. The Raiders will give him an ayahuasca franchise on the Las Vegas Strip.Continue reading “What’s next for Aaron Rodgers’ career – and colon?”

By BRUCE LOWITT After dramatically changing the face of Major League Baseball for the upcoming season, Commissioner Rob Manfred said he has “even more improvements in mind for 2024, which I think will either speed up or screw up the game even more, depending on your point of view.” By adding a pitch clock, increasingContinue reading “Want more offense? The MLB Commish has some big balls”

By BRUCE LOWITT Fox News, facing a $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, responded to filings in Delaware Superior Court with a statement by Fox News President Jay Wallace stating, in its entirety, “So what?” Wallace, who said he was acting on orders of Fox Corporation CEO and executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch, thenContinue reading “Fox to Dominion: “Get lost!””

By BRUCE LOWITT Mike Pence is challenging special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoena requiring him to testify about events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, but the former vice president insists it’s not that his wife told him not to do it. “It’s not because ‘Mother’ said I shouldn’t,” Pence said, using the nameContinue reading “‘Mother’? Oh, brother!”

By BRUCE LOWITT FOX NFL Sunday routinely beats the competition in the leadup to National Football League telecasts with host Curt Menefee and panelists Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan. But that wasn’t good enough for Mark Silverman, president and chief operating officer of FOX Sports. In order to attract what heContinue reading “The Super Bowl Pregame Show Gets FOXed Up”

By BRUCE LOWITT Residents in George Santos’ congressional district in New York strongly agree that he should give up his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives but have seriously differing opinions on the punishment he should face for all his lying. A Newsday/Siena College poll found that 78 percent of voters in District 3,Continue reading “They don’t just want Santos gone”

By BRUCE LOWITT INDIAN CREEK ISLAND, Fla., Jan. 1, 2024 – Tom Brady’s roller-coaster offseason and 2023 football season has finally rolled to a stop after the greatest quarterback ever was unable to jump start several new careers and rejected, or was rejected by, several NFL teams. What began as a promising second career asContinue reading “The 2023 Odyssey of Tom Brady”

By BRUCE LOWITT Kevin McCarthy and his fellow travelers in the House of Representatives have established the No Ways and By No Means Committee, Homeland Insecurity Committee, Re-Education Committee and more than a dozen others, furthering the Republicans’ goal of becoming the party of rich white males. “We don’t just want to refuse to raiseContinue reading “Committees that should be committed”

Transcript of a surreptitiously recorded conversation among United States Supreme Court justices following the announcement by the court that it was unable to determine who leaked a draft of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to abortion. “… (unintelligible) never said I wouldn’t like a goodContinue reading “They interviewed everyone except (probably) the guilty parties”