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Sunday Reads...

  • Greg McNeilly
  • Feb 8
  • 2 min read

An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The more issues of law are inescapably entangled in political controversies, especially those that touch the passions of the day, the more the Court is under duty to dispose of a controversy within the narrowest confines that intellectual integrity permits.” — Justice Felix Frankfurter in Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath


  • Apparently, immigration enforcement works. 

  • The legend of Dick Hammer. 

  • How Norman Rockwell leveraged identity theory for his work. 

  • Football: What NFL team is the only franchise to have a Billboard top hit?

    • A visual guide to the variation in taste on wing’s flavor. 

    • They have been at the last 60 Super Bowls, this might be their last. 

    • Go inside the stables where the Budweiser Clydesdales live. 

    • 27 Chicken Wing recipes. 

  • States and towns with the most winter Olympians. 

  • WSJ: Cash bonus or paid time off? 

  • 1950's tax humor, here.

  • AI:

    • Inside a marketplace for “deep fake” photos. 

    • College: Using AI to prove you didn’t use AI? 

    • AI and the current state within the legal practice. 

  • CHINA & RUSSIA & IRAN:

    • Russia is offering a cash bonus to fight in Ukraine. 

  • COURTS: 

    • A bad behaving judges and the general lack of accountability for the Article III branch gets noticed. 

    • 63% believe SCOTUS should clarify the President does not have taxing / tariff powers under Article II. 

  • ECONOMY:

    • Rut-roh: Typical American has $955 in retirement savings. 

    • Layoff plans jumped in January. 

  • POLS BEHAVING BADLY:

Dems

  • Mamdani claims “gifted” schools are unfair and seeks their end. 

  • Newsom observed his mother’s assisted suicide. 

  • Concerns raised over terrorist connections to Rep. Tlaibs. 

  • “Teacher of the Year” arrested twice for alleged sexual misconduct. 

Reps

  • One Senator notes the “most racist thing posted from the White House” on a Trump rant.  It’s gross yes, but bush-league compared to “Birth of a Nation” from everyone’s favorite Progressive. 

  • TRAVEL:

    • Italian church fresco resembling the current Prime Minister has face likeness scrubbed out.

    • WSJ: Best domestic airline.  

    • Inside one of America’s last Rainforest Cafe.

  • Reading recs for Black History. 

  • Sad: Illegal alien crashes truck into group and kills four. 

  • AMA joins groups calling for the end of mutilating minors who struggle with transsexuality. 

  • When Satan was in the White House - for real. 

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