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Reasons Against College Football Playoff Legitimate, Joe Paterno Be Damned

Quote the Penn State coach last week:"To be frank with you, I don't know what the reasons are not to have a playoff," Paterno said during a speaking appearance in Pittsburgh. "You can talk about missing class and all that kind of stuff, (yet) you see basketball go on forever. You have a lot of bogus excuses.Now, far be it...

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Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle

Harkening back to the grand old days of Sino-Soviet diplomatic chicanery, Moscow and Beijing yesterday jointly vetoed a watered-down United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its escalating brutality against democracy protestors.

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Michael Sigman: Enough With 'On Steroids' -- How About 'On Acid'?

The time has come for hyperbolists throughout the nation to find a better metaphor than "on steroids" to satisfy their exaggeration jones.

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DJ Jaffe: Improve Care For Mentally Ill: Eliminate Mental Health Agencies

In this week's National Review , Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, of the Treatment Advocacy Center, argues that to improve care for people with mental illness, President Obama should eliminate the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA).

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Libya: The Arab League Should Conduct the No-Fly Zone

Many in the international community are pushing President Obama to authorize war against the regime of Libyan dictator, Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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WikiLeaks Show 'War on Drugs' Epitomizes 'Mission Creep'

A hand-full of conservatives have already weighed-in on the latest WikiLeaks revelations regarding the D.E.A.'s War on Drugs in 63 countries, but I figured I would add my two cents to the debate, as well.

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05/10/11 Mission creep Source: Toledo City Paper - Toledo OH It has become an epithet thrown around casually whose meaning is bent to various political ends.
04/20/11 Is the Libya mission creeping? Is that wrong? Source: The Christian Science Monitor "Mission creep" is the phrase of the week in arguments over what to do, or not do, about Libya , spurred on by news that France and the UK are sending military advisers to assist Libya's rebels in their war to oust strongman Muammar Qaddafi.
04/01/11 Mission Creeps Source: Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish
10/12/10 Mission creep Source: The Devil's Kitchen It is a simple fact that the range of EU competencies is astonishingly wide, and are prone to mission creep: an EU competency in "green" issues, for instance, becomes a plausible excuse for EU meddling in energy generation policy.