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Quarterbacks: (more)

Wide Receivers (more)

As Americans live longer, state governments are increasingly faced with looming pension obligations that threaten to break their bank accounts. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder, at the behest of his boss, President Obama, is looking to file criminal charges over the BP oil rig explosion. Naturally, we all wait to see if he’ll name the Secretary of the Interior as co-defendant. Americans were shocked to learn of the Interior’s cozy relationship with the industry it’s supposed to regulate. (more)

By Stephen Richer and R. Ben Sperry (more)

Dear Mr. President, (more)

Many of our fellow citizens are up in arms about the prospect of the United States becoming a European-style social democracy. Their stubborn and unreasonable resistance to the obvious advantages of the modern European state, though frustrating, is really not surprising. They’re the same right-wing dullards that always raise a stink when someone tries to improve America. Luckily for the rest of us, we live in a time when our government is chock full of really, really smart people. (Nearly every one an Ivy League grad.) And I hear that they’ve come up with a truly brilliant plan to circumvent this obstinate, brain-dead conservative mob and finally enable the rest us to enjoy the benefits of a more compassionate and humane form of government. (more)

Today, many Americans will honor fallen brethren from all wars throughout our country’s history. (more)

“From now until the end of the world, we and it shall be remembered.
We few, we Band of Brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”
—William Shakespeare (King Henry V) (more)

If there were ever a moment in time to take a stand for American pride it’s now. If we want to preserve for our children the respect our ancestors enjoyed we need to draw a line in the sand and proclaim “enough.” (more)

By any objective standard, the administration has hit its political stride. The problem is that it has done so a year late. For very different reasons, Democrats and Republicans alike should be thinking: What if the administration’s first year had not been lost? (more)

During a commencement address at Hampton University, President Obama bemoaned increasing use of technology by Americans to stay entertained instead of “informed and engaged.” (more)

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In the wake of the incident at the California school wherein students were sent home for wearing the American flag, it has become abundantly clear (to me) that we are too entrenched in political correctness to hold people accountable for bad behavior. And political manipulation is growing dangerous. (more)

President Barack Obama promised “change we can believe in,” but we are discovering that the more things change, the more they stay the same. In fact, the president is promoting an egregious scheme that serves only to reward his political benefactors, while needlessly driving up the cost of taxpayer-funded construction by nearly 20 percent. (more)

For the time being, it seems the hype and brouhaha over Arizona’s simple legislation recognizing federal immigration laws has subsided: The Reverend Al “Don’t Get Between Me and the Camera” Sharpton has marched (again and again), boycotts have been threatened, though failed for MLB’s All Star Game, and somehow, no reports to date of a family out for ice cream being thrown in the local gulag for not having their “papers.” (more)

After I took my final exams, I decided to go to the beach for a few days. I wanted to feel close to God, and since I was a kid the ocean has always connected me to the divine. Growing up I spent a lot of summers at eastern shore of Maryland, about three hours from my home in Washington, D.C. The semester was over. It was time for a break—and to wrap up this diary. (more)

At first it might seem that Democratic Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Republican Sen. Bob Bennett (Utah) don’t have much in common ideologically. (more)

TO: Thomas Toch (more)

“Andy, if we allow those criminals to get away with breaking the law, we’ll just get more of ’em.” —Barney Fife, Mayberry Police, second in command (more)