He swore an oath to defend the U.S. constitution and the United States, not Virginia. Virginia’s attempted secession from the U.S. was unconstitutional and illegal, therefore they were in open rebellion against the nation to which he had sworn fealty. That is treason under any definition.

The winners write the history. As such, the southern states unconstitutionally attempted to leave the union and took up arms against the rest of the country. Ergo, traitors.

Let’s be clear: a complete reversal of the Tam case, leaving the “disparagement” prohibition of Section 2(a), will still leave lots of room for interpretation. Grey area is inherent in statutory construction.

I’m assuming the last 15 minutes was when the penny dropped for the Democrats that Comey was aware of the Trump/Russian dossier investigation at about the same time as he was publicly dangling HRC over the cliff of the Weiner emails, but Comey said nothing about Trump. This boggles the mind.

This is the beginning of a much more important discussion than NFL matters, but one of the primary reasons to have a state income tax is to provide funding for state services. If you can’t afford to educate your citizens, maybe you need to have a state income tax, Nevada.

I have no problem remembering Robert E. Lee as a great general in the history books and as an example of grace in the face of defeat. But he is, first and foremost, a traitor who took up arms against his country in defense of slavery (yes, I know he put it as “defending my home, Virginia”, but the only reason - the…

Way back when Letterman had a show on NBC, he had a recurring sketch about the NBC bookmobile, featuring books with humorously topical titles. My dad was never a really big Letterman fan (a Carson guy, all the way), but he always referenced one of their bits as one of his favorite jokes. It was right after the…

I don’t think the conservative powers-that-be really fear Trump’s irrationality. Trump says shit, it generates a bunch of “bad” publicity, the media and the electorate focus on the spectacle, then something new comes along and Trump says shit, that generates a bunch of “bad” publicity, lather, rinse, repeat. …

Honest question: how bad is L.A.’s football attendance historically? It was my sense that the Rams drew fairly well until they moved to Anaheim and began to perennially suck. One problem they and the Raiders faced was never being able to sell-out the Coliseum, but I thought that was just because it was huge.

As much as Iceland and Wales were a delight during the Euros, there were a shitload of boring games, primarily due to previously unqualified teams playing poorly against far superior teams that were giving half-effort in order to save themselves. But the drop-off between top tier European football nations and lower…

I’m an advanced stat guy, but I want a small Hall. The Pro Football HOF should be the model, not the Rock ‘n Roll HOF.

I think you are missing the better criticism of this idiocy. The people who are “anti-political correctness” aren’t saying that want to be allowed to be racist, misogynist, homophobic, Islamophobic, etc. Instead, they believe they live in a world in which political correctness requires one to love and respect all…

Jesus fucking Christ on the cross. This is the most depressing thing I’ve read. Ignorance of reality, particularly willful ignorance of reality, runs through almost all these responses. The only two responses here that show any awareness of reality were the the first one under “Pure Self Interest” and the one under…

Musburger has been an unctuous stain on broadcast sports for 50 years. I refuse to watch a game he’s broadcasting (if its an important enough game to me, I’ll watch it with the audio off and the radio broadcast playing). If he says someone is “one of the best”, you know he’s saying it only as part of his clumsy,…

I don’t think you can include Kelly in the “failed former coaches carousel”, Tom.

True story: Sam Darnold’s grandfather gave me my first haircut. So even though I’m a Cal man, I rooted for SC last night. Amazing performance.

The Niners are fucked top to bottom. If the Yorks are in any way serious about returning the team to its former glory under Denise’s brother, they have to start by completely cleaning house, starting with giving Jed a job outside the organization; Tommy Boy was a funny movie but an embarrassing reality. Then they…

There’s a good chance one of us will be one of the starting QBs in this game. If its me, I’m definitely taping it.

I think what we’re seeing here is that the police half-assed the original investigation (“just another girl who had too much to drink, lost control of herself, suffered buyer’s remorse the morning after, and is now looking to make a buck off a football program.”) and now the DA is fucked. It’s one thing if the police…

Sure, I’m a partisan progressive, but for fuck’s sake, how come it’s only the Right that outright publicly lies like this: