“New England” on The Daily Caller

There is no excuse for a well-dressed gent to wilt in the warm months. Here is The Daily Caller’s list of the good-taste must-haves for this spring and summer. (more)

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” said President Harry Truman, “there’s only history we haven’t learned yet.” The history we haven’t learned yet was on display on page one of the Washington Post last week. Post writers Philip Rucker and David Farenthold reported on the reading of the Constitution by newly sworn-in members of the 112th Congress. (more)

FOXBOROUGH — They are a team that gives you chills on those freezing nights in December — just like in the good old days at the beginning of the century. (more)

As NFL teams jostle down the stretch with the finish line fast approaching, several division grudge matches loom large in Week 13, games that will help shape the playoff picture. (more)

Each week this NFL season there have been one or two games worth circling in red. (more)

Randy Moss has been waived by the Vikings just weeks after Minnesota traded a third-round draft pick to the New England Patriots for the receiver, the NFL Network reported Monday. (more)

FOXBOROUGH — Before this season, Patriots coach Bill Belichick removed all the pictures of New England’s past triumphs and big moments from the walls inside the football offices at Gillette Stadium. (more)

Pick a subplot. Any subplot. You’re bound to find something in Monday Night Football’s Vikings vs. Jets showdown to whet your whistle. (more)

Republican challengers are suddenly threatening once-safe Democrats in New England and the Northwest, expanding the terrain for potential GOP gains and raising the party’s hopes for a significant victory in next month’s elections. (more)

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. –In a surprising turn of events, it was not the Patriots offense that was largely responsible for their 41-14 win over the Dolphins last night. (more)

Wide Receivers (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — After a summer in the spotlight, the Jets are under scrutiny again. (more)

Donovan McNabb complained to Eagles head coach Andy Reid and owner Jeffrey Lurie that “no one in the organization ever stepped up and said anything” about the criticism the quarterback endured since his first season in the NFL, according to an interview that appears in the current issue of GQ magazine. (more)

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek holds a 39 – 29 percent lead over Jeff Greene in the Florida race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, while Attorney General Bill McCollum holds a slight 39 – 35 percent lead over Rick Scott in the contest for the Republican nomination for governor, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely primary voters released today. (more)

The road to a Republican congressional majority may not run through New England, but GOP officials expect to make at least a few inroads this fall in a region where they suffered heavy losses in recent election cycles. (more)

How could the Obamas relax on the New England coast, they fume, when the nation is fighting two wars, oil blobs are washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, and unemployment remains a stubbornly high 9.5 percent? The Republican National Committee last week launched a snarky website cataloging the president’s recreational activities, including his Maine trip, under the heading: “Play Golf or Save the Gulf?’’ (more)

A dangerous and record-challenging heat wave will affect much of the East this week as a once-delightful air mass turns ugly. (more)

According to Democratic leaders in the Senate, the 60 votes needed to pass a climate bill may be a lot more difficult to come by than they originally thought. Last weekend, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said, “If you actually have a bill that puts in place a cap-and-trade system or a limit on greenhouse gases and a mandatory reduction in greenhouse gases, I think it’s difficult to see where we get the 60 votes to pass that legislation.” (more)

A growing population of seals off Cape Cod and rising water temperatures are combining to create conditions that could attract great white sharks to Cape beaches this summer, state and local authorities said yesterday. (more)

If you’re planning to spend the next New Year’s Day in Concord, Massachusetts, don’t get caught nursing your annual hangover with a plastic bottle of cool spring water — you might be breaking the law. (more)