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• Can You Spot the Embarrassing Mistake the Lakers Made With Shaquille O’Neal’s Retired Jersey?

  April 4, 2013 at 6:27pm

  In reply to The-Monk.

  It’s also a different style jersey, as you can see from the purple material down both sides.

  I thought at first that the had just hung the jersey backwards, as the story correctly notes that the notch above “O’Neal” is on the front of the jersey, not the back. But the numbers are also white instead of black and there’s the purple material I mentioned above. Pretty much a screw-up all around.

• Autographed Beatles Album Sells For More Than Most Houses (Plus: Is There Gold in Your Record Collection?)

  April 1, 2013 at 5:40pm

  I’ve been a fan of The Beatles for about as long as I can remember.

  If I had a spare $300k laying around that I didn’t need for some necessity, I’d be sorely tempted to have bid on the record. For one thing, it’s an original Parlophone issue, not Capitol. Second, it’s signed and authenticated (not one of the tons of forgeries out there). Third, it looks to have been signed by all four with the same pen and at the same time. Those three conditions come together (no pun intended) to make this an extreme rarity.

  As for the impact of their music, The Beatles were and are the seminal rock and roll group of all time. Period, end of discussion. They did not invent rock, but they made it, in a perverse sense, ‘respectable’ in that rock was taken as a serious art form after they burst onto the scene.

• ‘What Would the World Look Like if America Never Existed?’: ‘2016′ Creator Dinesh D’Souza Is Back With a New Movie

  March 17, 2013 at 6:35pm

  In reply to txs_sxs.

  Not only did I do a report along those exact same lines for what was then Honors History (I suppose it would be AP History now), I did a book report on “Mein Kampf”. I’m thinking that would not only get you expelled but probably on some sort of governmental watch list nowadays.

• ‘What Would the World Look Like if America Never Existed?’: ‘2016′ Creator Dinesh D’Souza Is Back With a New Movie

  March 17, 2013 at 6:32pm

  And there is at least some evidence that the Chinese made it to the west coast of North American well before Columbus made it to the West Indies (though by all accounts the Vikings were here before the Chinese). Columbus gets the credit, though, because Europe, unlike China and Scandanavia before, actually did something with the knowledge.

  As for the discussion about WW1, WW2 and the Nazis…..

  Yes, there would have been a WW1. Germany’s humiliation of France in their 1870 war was just too complete, and France would have sought revenge at some point. Toss in the fatal web of truly “entangling alliances” that politicians wove among the principal countries of Europe and you have more than enough tinder.

  Had the US not been around, I think it likely that Germany would have either won WW1 outright or at least signed an armistice on terms most favorable to them. Remember that they had knocked Russia out of the war, and those troops could be sent west without meeting fresh US troops. The only reason they ceased unrestricted submarine warfare was to appease Wilson, and it was on the verge of starving England and France out of the war. France’s morale was at its nadir and England’s little better.

  If Germany had won WW1 or it ended on terms favorable to it, then of course the reasons for Hitler’s rise would not have existed and thus the likelihood of a WW2 significantly reduced or changed (perhaps Germany, England, France, et.al. against Communist Russia?).

• CNN Features Ben Carson Interview…But Why Did They Avoid Talking Politics?

  March 17, 2013 at 6:12pm

  From what little- emphasis on that- I know, Dr. Carson would make an excellent representative of the Conservative movement. If that leads to a political future, then so much the better.

  However, I would caution my fellow Conservatives not to jump on the bandwagon until more of his views are learned. Remember not all that long ago when we on the Right were begging Colin Powell to run for President as a Republican? How about David Petraeus?

  I’m in no way comparing Dr. Carson to either of them, except insofar as there was much we didn’t know about Powell and Petraeus and that there is much we do not know about Carson. If his views on other issues are as solidly Conservative as are his views on Obamacare and the excessive size and influence of the Federal government, then we may have found a winner. But I council patience here until we learn more.

• Prominent University Boots Chick-fil-A Off Campus — Is It Because of the Company’s Stance on Gays?

  March 12, 2013 at 6:19pm

  In reply to ricckky.

  @KeatonC333-

  To what “certified hate group” did Chik-Fil-A donate to and who “certified” the group as being a “hate group”?

• CNN Anchor’s Stunning Question to Laura Bush: To Effect Change Do We Just Need to Accept Some Anti-Semitism & Anti-Americanism?

  March 12, 2013 at 6:14pm

  Would Ms. Burnett ask Barack Obama if we should “accept” some racism or homophobia to “effect change”?

  Of course not. Blacks and gays are part of the new protected class and are therefore off-limits to criticism of any kind. Jews and whites are not part of that class and can be besmirched at will.

  Welcome to Obama’s Post-Racial world.

• What If George W. Bush Were President?

  March 12, 2013 at 6:10pm

  I think I’d take the worst days of the Bush economy (reached, oddly enough, only after the 2006 elections returned the House to Democrat control,,,I’m sure that was a coincidence though) than the best under President Obama.

• Krugman Accuses Scarborough of ‘Ad Hominem’ For…Quoting Him?

  March 5, 2013 at 9:45pm

  “Conservatives get angry when you quote them incorrectly. Liberals get angry when you quote them correctly.”- Ann Coulter

• Karl Rove: GOP Needs to ‘Get Up Off the Mat’ & Find More Diverse Candidates

  March 3, 2013 at 3:49pm

  Why can we not select candidates by both the color of their skin AND the content of their character?

  There are more black, Hispanic and Asian Conservatives out there than is typically thought. What Rove is advocating is that we find minorities who are authentic Conservatives/Libertarians and at least consider nominating them to run against the Social Democrats. So long as they are being selected based on being the most qualified candidates, why not work a but harder to find minorities to run?