After Tebow led the Denver Broncos to victory over Miami in his first game as an NFL starting quarterback, Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby was heard on Jim Rome's radio show to say: Us losing to Tim Tebow the way we did, we seen it first hand. Young man is blessed. Young man has a special anointing on him. And for God to show himself in that game the way He did, through the guy He did it through, it opened a lot of guys’ eyes on our team. And it brought a lot of guys closer to God, so like I said, everything happens for a reason. . . . My hat goes off to Tim. And God working through him like that, it opened up a lot of eyes. He’s a blessed young man and I wish him much success the rest of his career. ESPN's Jemele Hill opined that Detroit players were "disrespecting his faith" during the Lion's blowout win in his second week as Denver's starting quarterback. Players openly mocked Tebow in the course of the game, pretending to pray after a sack or a score. Since that game, the Broncos record is 5-0 while the Lions have gone 2-3. Just pointing out the obvious. So...what is the big deal about Tim Tebow? This absolutely fascinating, sometimes heated debate between Stephen A. Smith, Cris Carter, and Skip Bayless about whether Tebow's Christian beliefs influence the outcome of football games on ESPN's First Take can be found at the link below. The Tebow Debate In the course of argument, all three men profess to sharing Tebow's Christian faith. Each analyst thinks he knows the "logical" explanation why the Broncos are 7-1 with Tebow as their … [Read more...]

We Georgia Bulldog fans don't deserve our football coach. After his only losing season in a decade of multiple SEC championships and an incredible overall winning percentage, critical remarks by Internet rabble became more frequent. Some fans openly called for his firing. They looked at Alabama, Florida and LSU and declared our program could no longer compete. But now Florida is in decline. True, Alabama and LSU are about to play for the national championship. LSU beat us for the SEC championship, fair and square. Well, mostly fair. Because it's also true that those two programs are champions of "oversigning", a legal but highly questionable practice where players awarded scholarships do not have them renewed when better players become available. By contrast, Mark Richt has a reputation for honoring four year commitments, sometimes to his detriment in the past because his discipline was believed too lax. He gave players more than one chance, even if they weren't superstars. I believe it is because the coach takes seriously his responsibility to shape these teenagers into men, not just football players. That should be to his credit. The programs at Alabama and LSU are not run like typical college programs. They operate more like minor league NFL teams, complete with roster cuts for under-performing players. The coaches use more pleasant euphemisms such as "attrition" and "medical hardship" which happens at every school, but a cut is a cut. And "conveniently" for Saban and Miles, there always happens to be players on campus available to … [Read more...]

A friend of mine directed me to this video I thought I'd share. It's a performance by artist Michael Israel as he creates the painting "Hero" in New York.   You'll realize how amazing the finished product is after you've watched the process by which the painting was created. I wouldn't want this guy to paint the interior of my house, but I'd love to buy a piece of his artwork or at least to watch him work in person. Enjoy! … [Read more...]

Growing up, it was virtually impossible to tell which political party the news anchors of the three major networks favored. I had no idea that Walter Cronkite was a flaming liberal until he gave interviews after he retired. But Dan Rather left nothing to the imagination about where his allegiance lay when he did his best to undermine George W. Bush's presidential candidacy with a biased, falsified report about his National Guard service. Today's mainstream media is almost exclusively populated with liberal Democrats unafraid to show their true colors. Recently in an interview on the Today show, David Gregory of NBC's Meet the Press went even further in an attempt to destroy the career of a politician he doesn't like. Gregory said the only reason that Herman Cain remained candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was because the GOP lacked a "Grand Wizard" to force him out of the race. Do you think he meant Gandalf from Lord of the Rings? No, of course not. Gregory meant to insinuate a Grand Wizard from the Ku Klux Klan. What other kind of "Grand Wizard" is there? This whole business of suggesting Republicans don't care about sexual harassment is patently absurd. Republicans don't care about false smear campaigns against a man with impeccable integrity, by all accounts (except five.) Republicans cared when accusers with legitimate complaints against Bill Clinton were vilified. But most conservative voters can recognize a hatchet job when they see it, and Herman Cain is being Is Gregory so ignorant that he doesn't remember the Democrat … [Read more...]

The "Occupy" protests have been largely misguided efforts directed at bankers and private corporations. But who is actually robbing the taxpayer? Sure, there are some cases of actual fraud...but what about the legal shenanigans involving politicians and union leaders? One Chicago union boss is triple dipping into three pension funds to the tune of $450,000 a year. This article asks a very good question -- how would you like to buy into an annuity with a 25% return on investment? Too bad, "you" can't. Because you weren't a Chicago Streets and Sanitation worker for only a single day -- you can't qualify for a special pension of $158,000. Now Chicago might be famous for gangsters and corrupt politics, but the city is not alone. The city of Boston has a problem where it has to fight in court against a legal obligation to pay pension benefits to a man convicted of corruption for taking bribes for helping a company win state contracts. Not to be outdone, the entire state of California is drowning in pension liabilities for public sector workers. Maybe "we the people" need to occupy state legislatures and positions in the federal government (instead of public parks in futile protests) in order to eliminate this grotesque public-sector corruption and greed. … [Read more...]