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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”

By BRUCE LOWITT The governors of 11 states plus Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., will begin shipping immigrants to Wyoming by midsummer because, as Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said, “they’ve got like six people per square mile up there. They could handle a few million people without even blinking.” Polis said asylum seekers inContinue reading “Wyoming: Bienvenidos solicitantes de asilo”

By BRUCE LOWITT In a mea culpa for their insensitive treatment of Ohio State kicker Noah Ruggles a week ago, the Atlanta Falcons’ halftime show during Sunday’s victory over Tampa Bay featured highlights of their Super Bowl meltdowns against New England and Denver and a fistful of other miserable moments during their mostly pathetic 57Continue reading “The Falcons blew more than a game”

By BRUCE LOWITT All it took was eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, plus discarding his soul and conscience, visits by Rumpelstiltskin and the Wicked Witch of the West, letters of support from Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban and a case of Stockholm Syndrome – and KevinContinue reading “McCarthy’s got game but no balls”

By BRUCE LOWITT Donald Trump, already steamed when 221 Republicans didn’t vote for him as Speaker of the House of Representatives, threw his cheeseburger, golf shoes and a folder of classified documents out a Mar-a-Lago window during a tantrum when Matt Gaetz, after initially nominating and voting for the former president, changed his mind andContinue reading “Trump: one and done, and so is the House”