Just look at the ratings for Duck Dynasty.

and theres multiple videos of stewart starting altercations and causing life threateing wrecks ohh and the kicker he murdered a 20yr old last night

hate to play the race card but stewart has always been a dick and has always caused wrecks but yet no one says anything he killed a 20yr old kid last night and yet ESPN and nascar analyst are down playing this like it was a accident and that stewart didnt mean yet stewart struck that kid with bad intentions

Fighting happens in all of these sports, on and off the field. Only in the NBA and NFL does it cause moral handwringing about thuggery.

This is an argument people have already made about hockey, but it's just as valid here.

So Tony Stewart is going to jail, right? Even if it was an "accident", he still revved the car and created a situation that didn't have to happen. He murdered a 17 year old.

How come racists always ignore Nascar when talking about out of control violent athletes and thug culture. Seriously not trying to be typical uppity white commenter that feels the need to defend every minority group, but do you really think the nfl or NBA would put up w players constantly fighting after games any time…

NASCAR is full of thugs.

A man may can punch a woman in the face if their life is truly threatened. Otherwise restraining them is suffice.

Is this the rationalization you use when you knock your girlfriend unconscious? "oh, she threw the first slap, everything is fair game now."

Actually, they did inform the Russians. It got lost in the bureaucracy.

Then Obama should have known better when he started these wars....... Oh wait.

DON'T BLAME ME: I VOTED FOR YIP YIP YIP.

Of course, because the barometer of whether a President is successful or not is whether he is Jesus.

The Democrats have pretty much taken the political center. The GOP continues to marginalize itself as vocal extremists (Tea Party, etc.) in the coalition continue to alienate the public.

"If they tried to form an army half would call the other half not consservative enough, half of that right flank would piss on the other half for some perceived compromise and so on until you have a rump faction of Ted Nugent and Cliven Bundy holding a pageant to see who can stick their chest out farthest while…

Over the past 10+ years, policy has drifted right to the point where "left" is where "moderate right" used to be, and "right" boils down to "fuck the liberals, burn it all to the ground to spite them."

Yes, sort of, but this time it will lead to nothing but more dysfunction. The Civil War happened because people wanted or did not want a very specific thing. We needed a war to determine whether we could that thing or not.

Except the right views compromise as an ideological weakness.