The families of nine children who were shot and killed by 20-year old Adam Lanza in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 won a lawsuit today against Remington Arms Company, the maker of the rifle that the shooter used. The massacre had resulted in the deaths of 20 first graders and six adults. The weapon used was an AK-15 assault rifle. It was the largest such lawsuit ever won against an arms manufacturer,... Read more
I live in the Phoenix Valley in Arizona. Today, the Roman Catholic Church declared that thousands of baptisms performed by a single priest at the St. Gregory Catholic Church in the Diocese of Phoenix are void because Friar Andres Arango, ordained 25 years ago, always innocently pronounced the Catholic formula for baptism by using the word “we” instead of “I.” As reported in USA TODAY, he used the formula (in English), “we baptize you in the name of the father... Read more
Scottie Scheffler won his first tournament on the PGA Tour yesterday by defeating by defeating six-time winner Patrick Cantlay on the third hole of a sudden playoff. They played the par-four 18th hole three times, with both parring it the first two times. On the third extra hole, Scheffler drove in the right san bunker but played a good shot onto the green about 15 feet short of the hole. Cantlay putted first, on the same line but about 25... Read more
Sahith Theegala hung on to his one stroke lead today after three rounds in the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. This PGA Tour tournament advertises itself as “The Greatest Show on Grass,” and it truly is. I was out there today, and the gobs of fans who attend, and the many sophisticated grandstands they have, is astounding. Record Saturday attendance has been about 225,000 people in the past, and with today’s perfect 80 degrees temperature and... Read more
The big talk on the PGA Tour right now is a proposed international pro golf tour that is trying to draw PGA Tour players to compete on which would be in competition with the PGA Tour, and former superstar Greg Norman is promoting this new tour. Norman originally is from Australia, but has lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He gained his pro golf reputation largely by competing full time on the PGA Tour. But he has... Read more
Donald Trump, during his 2015-16 campaign for the U.S. presidency constantly berated former First Lady Hilary Clinton for her having used a private email server for both her government and personal emails while Secretary of State. (She explained that to do otherwise, she would have had to carry two cell/smart phones with her at all times.) It was improper conduct which she later admitted to being a blunder. Yet other people in the U.S. government had done likewise. Trump claimed... Read more
When Republican President Donald Trump finished delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress in 2020, we could see on television Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him tearing up her printed copy of the speech, one page at a time, in quite dramatic fashion. Afterwards, Pelosi explained to the media that she had no previous intention do that. But when she realized at that instant that not a single page that “didn’t have a lie... Read more
Former President Donald Trump, some of his family members, and his Trump Organization have been under investigation for over a year by New York Attorney General Letitia James and her office. In May last year, her civil investigation was joined together with the criminal fraud investigation of Trump and his Trump Organization that had been going on much longer by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Justice. The latter investigation had been initiated... Read more
During yesterday’s third round of the the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, on the 8th hole of the famed and picturesque Pebble Beach Golf Links, three-time major winner Jordan Spieth played a dangerous second shot to the green below. That hole is a par four in which you hit a lay-up club uphill to a blind fairway that ends abruptly with a 70-foot drop-off into the Pacific Ocean. Yes, the cliff actually descends inward somewhat, so that if a person fell... Read more
Due to a huge increase in unruly passengers on commercial airline flights, Delta Airlines has asked the Justice Department to help in setting up a national “no-fly” list of such unruly passengers. Delta alone has created its own no-fly list, which now consists of 1,900 people who refused to wear masks for COVID-19 on Delta flights. Delta says its unruly passenger incidents have doubled in the past two years. Why the recent increase? Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers! The Biden administration has... Read more
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