I am shocked. No, make that flabbergasted. Who would have thought that allowing college athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness (NIL, as it’s called) could cause any problems whatsoever? I’m sure you’ve been just as stunned as I to find out that some (and I use that quantity advisedly) connected to sports [...]

Edith Wilson’s name has never officially been listed as the First Woman President of the United States. However, by many accounts, she assumed the duties associated with that office for about 18 months. From October 2,, 1919, through March 4, 1921, at the end of his second term,  the elected President and Edith’s husband, Woodrow [...]

Are you familiar with any of these names? Sergei Shoigu, Nikolai Patrushev, Alexander Bortnikov, Yuri Kovalchuk, Vladimir Medinsky, or Anton Vaino? Hint: They are NOT characters in a book written by Leo Tolstoy. Instead of fictitious, these individuals are reportedly Vladimir Putin’s BFFs. At least, they are today. Supposedly, there was another guy on that [...]

During the presidential race in 2020, several candidates talked about the possibility of forgiving millions, if not billions, of dollars of student loans. That rhetoric morphed into the current possibility that somewhere between $10,000 and $50,000 (or even more) per student might be wiped off the books. All of which probably prompted the following conversation [...]