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A professional athlete, no matter the sport, enjoys a certain time of year called the off-season. Off-seasons allow athletes to clear their minds and heal their bodies. As an added benefit, off-seasons prevent fans from becoming bored with the sport. Professional offense-takers should follow that example. Maybe their minds wouldn’t be so cloudy and the rest of us wouldn’t grow so sick of them.

Feminists head the herd when it comes to taking offense. They can find affront at the drop of a hat. Feminists have taken umbrage at everything from Victoria’s Secret to My Little Pony. Anything that fails to promote feminism’s “strong” woman — the bra-burning, gruff, nagging, sea hag — renders women doting airheads suitable for serving the patriarchal society.
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Karl Rove has made a few political predictions for 2012.  What say you?

1. Republicans will keep the U.S. House, albeit with their 25-seat majority slightly reduced. In the 10 presidential re-elections since 1936, the party in control of the White House has added House seats in seven contests and lost them in three. The average gain has been 12 seats. The largest pickup was 24 seats in 1944—but President Barack Obama is no FDR, despite what he said in his recent “60 Minutes” interview. Read more

Speechless?  Yeah, I was too when I first read the headline on The Daily Caller.  Apparently Cain has completely lost his mind since “suspending” his presidential campaign due to allegations of sexual harassment and a 13-year extramarital affair.

This is the very same Herman Cain that did not know whether he was for or against Obama’s Libya policy and falsely claimed that the Taliban was playing a role in Libya’s new government.  This is also the same guy that insisted that leaders don’t need to know anything about world affairs, they just need to provide clarity and a competent staff.  In an interview with The Daily Caller, Cain had this to say about the expertise needed to be Secretary of Defense:

You don’t need to have defense expertise.  You don’t even need to have military expertise.  You need to have leadership expertise.  That’s what I would bring to that job.

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No need to watch out.

You might as well cry.

Go on and pout, I’m telling you why.

Santa Claus ain’t coming to town.

There won’t be any reindeer, or sleigh for you to see.

We’ve banned them all so we can prove our great sensitivity.

It’s no joke! The North Pole’s favorite son was banned from his annual appearance at the Hollings Cancer Center in South Carolina. Said spokeswoman Vicki Agnew: “Because of our state affiliation, we decided not to have a Santa presence this year.” The Center, Agnew continued, wanted to be “more secular and respectful to all beliefs. People who are Muslim or Jewish or have no religious beliefs come here for treatment.” Read more

What are we to make of the almost universal condemnation by the liberal media of the Denver Broncos’ quarterback Tim Tebow?

Tebow, an underperforming young NFL player who had previously failed to live up to his lofty college reputation, was recently pressed into the starting role as quarterback for the Broncos. He has responded by leading the Broncos on an extended winning streak, with several of the games being won in improbable fashion with last-minute rallies.

After each victory, Tebow gives thanks to G-d with an obvious, unashamed on-field display of reverence.
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As the public spectacle of the increasingly bizarre Occupy movements continues to unfold before our eyes, one overriding theme is becoming apparent:

Big Business (and their relentless pursuit of profits) is bad, evil, and inherently untrustworthy.

Is that really the lesson we want to take away from this mess? The same old clichés, presented for the same old reasons? How trite. How tired. How wrong.
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A guest submission from Rochelle Edvalson

Italian Premier Mario Monti formed a government of bankers, diplomats and business executives Wednesday, saying the absence of politicians in his Cabinet will spare political parties the “embarrassment” of taking the tough decisions needed to steer the country from financial disaster.

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Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier died November 7th 2011 at the age of 67 from liver cancer. Frazier rose to professional prominence in the 1960’s after winning an Olympic Gold Medal at the Tokyo Summer Games in 1964.

As background for those readers not familiar with the state of boxing in America 50 years ago, it was a very major sport, perhaps third in overall popularity and visibility to baseball and football. Major fights received significant television and newspaper coverage. There were “boxing writers” at the big national newspapers. The general public had a solid awareness of who the champions were in the various weight divisions.
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Imperfections notwithstanding, humans are a rather forgiving bunch. We’ve been known to forgive people who’ve stolen from us, damaged our property, or attacked us outright. We’ve forgiven con artists, robbers, and swindlers of all stripes. The more magnanimous among us can even forgive their rapist, or their loved one’s murderer. A big heart is essential to granting absolution in lieu of vengeance. Therefore, when such forgiveness is accorded, the gracious party rightly earns public respect.

To revere a forgiving victim is one thing. But what would we think of someone who encouraged their assailant? What would we think of a woman who cheered her attacker during a sexual assault? How about someone who applauds while their neighbor is being murdered, or roots for the thief who’s burglarizing their home, or praises the thug who’s vandalizing their property? We’d think them foolish, if not tetched. Read more

Six years ago, I wrote an article explaining that liberal media bias is not as obvious as one might think. Often, what the media don’t say is as important as what they do. I used Dizzy Gillespie as an example:

“Trumpeter John “Dizzy” Gillespie was one of jazz’s all-time great performers. With his colorful on-stage antics and trademark bent-bell horn, Gillespie was widely recognized as a prime architect of the influential be-bop movement of the 1940’s and 50’s and he remained a vital force in jazz right up until his death in 1993. Once, when asked how his playing always sounded so fresh and creative, he answered with his characteristically dry wit, “It ain’t the notes you play that count, man. It’s the ones you leave out.”
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We break momentarily from our normal politics to tell this tale.

It was a set up.

I’m in Philadelphia for an industry conference. This morning I was riding high. I had sat forth row in the center for Stuart Varney‘s keynote address, that by the way, was fantastic. I’ve long enjoyed Varney because he is so direct. I even tweeted some of his comments live during his speech (yeah, each word is a separate tweet).

Later, I somehow let David Kaiser talk me into lunch. When we pulled into Tony Luke’s rather than Geno’s or Pat’s, I should have known something was wrong.

I returned to the conference, attended a couple of dud sessions, then returned to my hotel room for the evening only to find this:

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Let me ask you something. How well would a construction worker do his job if he was handed a scalpel for his daily responsibilities? Obviously not very well. This morning I was watching the construction going on across the street from my Foggy Bottom apartment and it reminded me of all the times I have heard we need to use a scalpel instead of a wrecking ball when it comes to our budget.
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Thousands, if not millions of Americans read Paul Krugman’s repulsive article on the New York Times site yesterday. When I first read it, I was angry, very angry. It is clearly a politically-driven hack job from a frustrated economist who has been unsuccessful in his desire to be considered this generations’ great economist, whose Keyensian ideals based on a single data point prove over and over again not to work.

But people can see from what he wrote what a little man Krugman really is, so I will leave it at that.

What we should remember today is what happened after the atrocious attacks of 9/11/01.
Americans found God again. Churches and synagogues left previously half-empty were packed again, like they were during our parents’ generation and more so in the generation before theirs. Neighbors helped neighbors in true Godly service. We believed in each other and remembered a higher power again.

It is an interesting dichotomy how a tragedy can bring us closer together, closer to each other and our God. But it does. It is also easy to forget those feelings. Today, I hope we can all remember the spring that rose of the winter that was 9/11, the outpouring of good from the tragedy, the brighter side of a bitter evil brought by those who thought they could bring us to our knees.

Rather, today, we as Americans stand taller, stronger, and resolved to overcome with our genuine goodness.

God bless the USA.

We are only going to have one post for all the PD family to express their feelings and memories today. Rather than have several individual posts from contributors, we are going to let everyone who wishes the chance to talk about the day that changed everything for Americans through comments on this thread.

Thank you.

A guest submission from Rochelle Edvalson

Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs? The announcement of his departure is one of the biggest milestones in American business history.

Rarely has a single individual been so closely identified with and intertwined with a company’s fortunes as has Jobs. He is Apple. His vision and creativity spawned many successes (and failures!) over the years, but no one could ever say that he was unwilling to take a chance, to throw the dice.
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London is on fire. A quarter million protesters have made their views heard in Israel. Riots and protest have been frequent over the past few months in Spain Greece, and Portugal. The Philippines and China have workers protesting over the cost of living and doing business. Syria is seeing riots.

All of these events are related to economic issues. Some may argue that the evil rich are hoarding their money and letting everyone else starve. Others may argue that we have reached a tipping point where the incentive no longer exists for the producers to produce due to increasingly heavy taxation. One thing is certain. The global economy is largely dependent upon the United States economy. That being said, where do you see the global economy moving in the next few year? Will civil unrest, violence, and uprisings continue? How does it end? Or is this all no more than a cycle and the global economy along with the civil unrest will correct itself with time?

Check out the logo for the new ‘Department of Innovation‘. Do you see something innovative here?

Isn’t is ironic–almost a perfect metaphor for the country’s outlook and attitude–that the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down today, ending NASA’s manned space flight program for the foreseeable future.

The Shuttle program began in April 1981, just after President Reagan took office. His Presidency was a breath of fresh air after the ‘malaise’ of the Carter years, with the Iranian hostages and the economic quagmire of ‘stagflation,’ gas lines, and the oil crisis.

The Shuttle’s initial flight seemed to symbolize the country’s re-discovered confidence and optimism, as we reached for the heavens once again.

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The 2011 edition of the “Gang of Six” made their proposed debt reduction proposal today, take a look here.

Since I have only had a few moments to review the proposal, I have only formed an early opinion. My initial reaction is so far so good! The numbers are $3.7 trillion in total cuts and $500 billion in immediate cuts. This bipartisan measure seems to focus on spreading the tax base which allows us to increase revenue by $1 trillion yet lower marginal rates for everyone. The new highest income tax rate would be 29%. This bill sets up three tax brackets and abolishes the Alternative Minimum Tax (worth $1.7 trillion) The legislation also reforms enitlement spending and cuts from discretionary spending from every department.

I feel like this really is a fair and balanced compromise. (By this I do not mean a “Fox News compromise.”) Let me know what you guys think about this deficit plan. Judging from the comments on the last post I am sure we will have a number of varying views so go ahead and sound off on this!