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Seton Hall Prof Fires Back At Academia, Slamming Legalized Sports Betting
A professor of economics at Seton Hall has delivered a 24-page reality check to everyone wringing their hands about legalized sports betting.
Kurt Rotthoff’s new paper, published Aug. 1 on Social Science Research Network (SSRN.com) doesn’t just acknowledge that sports betting has downsides. It calls out the entire academic establishment for asserting that the benefits don’t exist.
“A majority of the literature looks at the negative impacts of legalized sports betting,” writes Rotthoff, Associate Provost for Strategy and Finance at the university. “Although many studies analyze the costs of legalized sports betting, most ignore the fact that benefits also exist.” Click here to read more.
The Collapse of Europe’s Socialist Experiment
There are mass demonstrations in Britain against illegal immigration and crime that’s not treated in the way it is with citizens. There’s a perception that immigrants, many of them in Britain illegally, are not treated equally. And I mean equally in the system, that they’re not treated severely as they should be, according to the law.
In Germany, there are massive defections in support for illegal migration. Remember, former Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “Yes, we can let in people from the Middle East.” Mostly Muslims. She let in 1 million into Germany. It’s got 15% to 16% of the population are aliens. They’re not German citizens. They weren’t born in Germany.
We have the same type of unrest appearing in the Netherlands and, to a lesser degree, in France.
Unfortunately, illegal immigration and unsecured borders are not Europe’s only problems. They made a conscientious decision—that is, most European countries—to lessen their carbon footprint, on the idea that they were going to go to zero-net emissions Click here to read more.
‘Wish I Never Brain-Washed Myself’: Minnesota School Shooter Said He Was ‘Tired Of Being Trans’
The trans-identifying shooter who killed two children and wounded more than a dozen others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday wrote in a journal entry that he was “tired of being trans” and regretted that he “brain-washed” himself.
A journal reportedly belonging to Robin Westman, 23, who was born Robert Westman, revealed some of the dark thoughts of the gunman who opened fire on students and staff while they were attending morning Mass at Annunciation Catholic School. The journal, which was written in a mix of Russian Cyrillic script and English, indicated that Westman held regrets about identifying as transgender, The New York Post reported.
“I only keep [long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” Westman reportedly wrote. Click here to read more.
Michigan’s child welfare system is broken
Rep. Luke Meerman, R-Coopersville, chair of the House Child Welfare Systems Subcommittee, presented a detailed update to Tuesday’s House Oversight Committee, highlighting ongoing challenges and systemic failures within Michigan’s child welfare system.
“Many of them will never stand in front of us,” Meerman remaked, emphasizing the responsibility of the state legislature to advocate for vulnerable children.
Despite efforts to address these issues, Michigan continues to face significant hurdles. “All those statistics say we have a lot of room to grow. These are kids that are struggling and we’re not doing as well as we should as a state,” Meerman noted.
The subcommittee’s investigation has uncovered disturbing cases of neglect and abuse. An audit revealed that Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services failed to review over 100 child deaths that met internal criteria for examination. The audit criticized MDHHS for inconsistently following procedures and for not updating the child fatality registry after 2022. “We agreed with the finding and took immediate actions to enhance the SSR process,” MDHHS Deputy Director Demetrius Starling acknowledged. Click here to read more.
Lawsuit links CA teen's suicide to artificial intelligence
The parents of a California teenager who committed suicide sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT taught him how to harm himself, according to a lawsuit the parents filed Aug. 26.
Matthew and Maria Raine, the parents, filed a 40-page lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco against the company OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. The lawsuit said OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, gave the California teenager explicit instructions for his suicide.
Adam Raine, 16, died after hanging himself on April 11, 2025.
“This tragedy was not a glitch or unforeseen edge case — it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices,” the lawsuit said.
Leading up to his death, Raine started to talk to artificial intelligence in September 2024 like it was his best friend, according to the suit. Rather than speaking with his family or friends about his anxiety and depression, he wrote to ChatGPT, the lawsuit said. Over time, AI went from being his confidant to his suicide coach, the lawsuit alleges. Click here to read more.
