Strong safety Troy Polamalu said football “just loses so much of its essence when it becomes like a pansy game.” He added that the NFL is trying to protect players from injuries because it is in the league’s best interests to do so.
“It has more to do with money and not really with our safety,” [...]
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When bin Laden declared war on the United States, it was in the hope that the United States would declare war in return – not just on him, but on the entire Muslim world. He wanted war, the bigger and more protracted the better. He wanted the Clash of Civilizations. He wanted, in a very [...]
Sometimes I like Hitchens, sometimes I find him a wordy dullard. This is one of the times I think he got it right.
Another feature of a banana republic is the tendency for tribal and cultish elements to flourish at the expense of reason and good order. Did it not seem quite bizarre, as the [...]
Sarah Palin is an idiot
Mr. Welch: ‘You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?’
Sixty-nine people witnessed a crime today and did nothing. I am drinking vodka tonics, what are you drinking?
Dear Senator Rockefeller,
I just called your office a few moments ago to express my opinion on FISA, and the Governments ability to spy on the citizenry. The fellow who answered the call did not seem very interested. I hope I did not make a mistake in calling your office in D.C. and wasting [...]
Letter from the dead.
Farewell Address
Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961.
My fellow Americans:
Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in [...]
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