Brodhead

I join with everyone who cares about justice in welcoming the North Carolina State Attorney General’s announcement that the remaining charges have been dropped against David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. This announcement comes at the end of an extraordinarily painful year for the young men and their families. They have carried themselves with dignity through an ordeal of deep unfairness.

- Duke President Brodhead

I remember Brodhead from when he was at Yale. I once thought he was a decent guy, now I think he is smarmy.

His present tone is very different than his previous anti-player rants.

He has obviously shifted into defense mode. He expects that the players' attorneys are going to sue him and Duke, rightfully so.

Jesse and Al's excellent adventure

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

- Jason Whitlock

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Entrepreneurs.

Crocodile

A zoo worker had his forearm reattached Thursday after his colleagues recovered the severed limb from the mouth of a 440-pound Nile crocodile, an official said.

- AP/azcentral

Ouch.

Hairy Reed

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared President Bush to former President Nixon today....

- politico.com

I voted for Nixon.

And I would vote for Nixon again, if the choice was Nixon vs. Clinton, or Nixon vs. Edwards, or Nixon vs. Obama....

When will Sharpton apologize to Duke players?

Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by an overreaching district attorney.

- AP

The liberal/islamofascist alliance

The liberal war against America is no more likely to suddenly become benign, and henceforth cease being a threat to the future of the country, than is the threat of militant Islam. Both result from ideologies whose leaders believe in their own inherent intellectual, moral and (most importantly) spiritual supremacy. As such, they currently benefit from a collaborative effort to tear down the strongholds of American tradition and its Judeo-Christian roots.

From the onset of the terror war, the left has epitomized Lenin’s characterization of “useful idiots.”

- Christopher G. Adamo