Randy White speaks to Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 2

Randy White spoke at the Little Rock Touchdown Club yesterday. He did a great job. I have always been a big Dallas Cowboy fan.

Here is a story from Arkansas Sports 360:

HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS: The Touchdown Club welcomed Randy White to town this Monday. The former Dallas Cowboy defensive tackle is one of the most honored college and pro football players to play the game and he has a place in both the College and NFL halls of fame. He’s also a great storyteller, with most of what he told Monday being true.

He mentioned running the Las Vegas strip after his playing days with the likes of former Razorback and Chicago Bear Dan Hampton and former Washington Redskins star John Riggins. Riggins and White were part of two teams that absolutely hated each other in the 1980s, but away from football they found they had a bond.

White didn’t realize it, but he brought up another former Razorback in offensive lineman Greg Koch, now a lawyer in the Houston area who played for the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings. White said Koch “used to crack me up” trying to get under his skin. Lately, they’ve struck up a friendship over the phone as Koch also is a Houston area sports talk show host and often has White on his program.

White, who retired before Jerry Jones took over the ownership of the franchise, said the Cowboys appear headed in the right direction. He had high marks for Coach Jason Garrett while noting that after an impressive opening victory at New York, the Cowpokes “kinda stubbed their toe” in losing at Seattle on Sunday.

The formula for all that success in the Tom Landry era in which he played was fairly simple, White said. The team “cared about each other.” In 1975, quarterback Roger Staubach made an effort to greet all 12 rookies, including White, and told them they mattered in the team’s success, and Dallas went on to post a surprising run to the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh. Everyone on the roster had drive, White said, and they all had a strength to react positively when times were tough.

Arkansas fans today can probably see where little of that is happening with the Razorbacks after week three of what was supposed to be a special season.

White said that when he stopped playing, he contemplated being a coach, but Jimmy Johnson had already put together his own staff for the Cowboys. “I started doing Miller Lite commercials, and that was that,” he said with a laugh.

Someone in the audience asked him if he was interested in a job opportunity in Fayetteville. He laughed again.

Later, he said, “To me, recruiting talent is more important than being a great coach. If my guys are better than your guys, I can make some mistakes as a coach but I’m still probably going to win.”

Email: jharris@abpg.com. Also follow Jim on Twitter @jimharris360

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September 19, 2012 – 8:19 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Woody Allen quotes on “Woody Wednesday”

Here are some good ones:

Email this Quote to a friend I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend In my house I’m the boss. My wife is just the decision maker.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend Intellectuals are like the mafia; they only kill their own.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen

Email this Quote to a friend It’s worse than dog eats dog. It’s dog doesn’t return dog’s phone calls.
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September 19, 2012 – 7:19 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Responding to the liberals at the Arkansas Times concerning tax policy

Spending Restraint, Part I: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton

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Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both reduced the relative burden of government, largely because they were able to restrain the growth of domestic spending. The mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity uses data from the Historical Tables of the Budget to show how Reagan and Clinton succeeded and compares their record to the fiscal profligacy of the Bush-Obama years.

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On 9-18-12 I noted on the Arkansaas Times Blog:

The federal government has how much money? Negative 16 trillion I believe. How can they pay for all our medical needs in the future without turning everything around on us at the state level? I guess liberals are the only ones dumb enough to believe Obama’s empty promises. He took over when there was a federal debt of around 10 trillion and now it is over 16 trillion. I guess we could do even better if we gave him his Obamacare and re-elected him. The only alternative is to elect a Republican House and Senate and President and kill Obamacare. I sure that sounds heartless to the liberals. Everything is working so good right now why change course.

Couldn’t be better responded with a good point,  “Interesting, Saline, that Republicans ran up that $10 trillion in the national debt during good times when they should have been paying it down or totally writing it off.”

I totally agree that Republicans have also had a lot to do with running up the debt. They have got us into wars that we have not budgeted for and we continue to pay for Japan and Germany’s defenses when they are wealthy enough to do it on their own.

However, what is the answer to getting us out of this budget mess? Is raising taxes the answer? Let’s see what the Clinton Administration had to say about that. Below is the last portion of an article by Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute:

Debunking Myth after Myth in Financial Times Column by Former Clinton White House Economist
September 18, 2012 by Dan Mitchell

Even though I have remarked on many occasions that the burden of government was reduced during the Clinton years, that doesn’t mean Bill Clinton was in favor of smaller government. And it definitely doesn’t mean that his appointees believed in economic liberty.

Consider the case of Laura Tyson, who served as Chair of Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. She recently penned a column for the UK-based Financial Times that is riddled with disingenuous assertions.

Even though it deserves to be ignored, I can’t resist the temptation to make corrections.

Tyson myth:

The US economy needs efficient and progressive tax reform and it needs more revenues for deficit reduction. Revenue increases have been a significant component of all major deficit-reduction packages enacted over the past 30 years.

Factual correction:

This is remarkable. I assume Ms. Tyson reads the New York Times, so perhaps she overlooked or deliberate forgot the column that inadvertently revealed that the only successful deficit-reduction package in recent memory was the one that cut taxes instead of raising them.

Interestingly, that successful package was implemented during the Clinton years, but only after she left office.

During Tyson’s tenure at CEA, we did get a tax increase rather than a tax cut. But the Clinton Administration admitted 18 months later that the tax hike was a failure and was not going to balance the budget.

Yet she wants to push the same failed class-warfare tax policy today.

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September 19, 2012 – 7:17 am Categories: Bill Clinton, spending out of control, Taxes | Post a comment

Open letter to President Obama (Part 143)

Milton Friedman discusses J.D. Rockefeller

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President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

Government officials always think they know better how to spend money than the private individual. We have a huge government deficit today that demonstrates that the government does not know best. Below are some wise words from Milton Friedman:

  • “The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”
    • “Free to Choose” (1980), segment 2 of 10, “The Tyranny of Control”

Here are some quotes from Milton Friedman that I thought you would enjoy:

  • Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.… A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.
    • The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
  • On the level of political principle, the imposition of taxes and the expenditure of tax proceeds are governmental functions. We have established elaborate constitutional, parliamentary and judicial provisions to control these functions, to assure that taxes are imposed so far as possible in accordance with the preferences and desires of the public — after all, “taxation without representation” was one of the battle cries of the American Revolution. We have a system of checks and balances to separate the legislative function of imposing taxes and enacting expenditures from the executive function of collecting taxes and administering expenditure programs and from the judicial function of mediating disputes and interpreting the law.
    Here the businessman — self-selected or appointed directly or indirectly by stockholders — is to be simultaneously legislator, executive and, jurist. He is to decide whom to tax by how much and for what purpose, and he is to spend the proceeds — all this guided only by general exhortations from on high to restrain inflation, improve the environment, fight poverty and so on and on.

  • The political principle that underlies the market mechanism is unanimity. In an ideal free market resting on private property, no individual can coerce any other, all cooperation is voluntary, all parties to such cooperation benefit or they need not participate. There are no values, no “social” responsibilities in any sense other than the shared values and responsibilities of individuals. Society is a collection of individuals and of the various groups they voluntarily form.
    The political principle that underlies the political mechanism is conformity. The individual must serve a more general social interest — whether that be determined by a church or a dictator or a majority. The individual may have a vote and say in what is to be done, but if he is overruled, he must conform. It is appropriate for some to require others to contribute to a general social purpose whether they wish to or not.
    Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.There are some respects in which conformity appears unavoidable, so I do not see how one can avoid the use of the political mechanism altogether.

    • “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” in The New York Times Magazine (13 September 1970)
  • So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.
    • Interview “Milton Friedman Responds” in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
  • There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
    • Free to Choose (1980), segment Who protects the consumer?
  • “The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”
    • “Free to Choose” (1980), segment 2 of 10, “The Tyranny of Control”
  • Governments never learn. Only people learn.
    • Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic’s Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎ (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77
  • With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
  • The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
    • Lecture “The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community” (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

September 19, 2012 – 6:58 am Categories: Milton Friedman, President Obama | Post a comment

Dan Mitchell: “Romney is Right that You Can Lower Tax Rates and Reduce Tax Preferences without Hurting the Middle Class”

The Laffer Curve, Part I: Understanding the Theory

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The Laffer Curve charts a relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. While the theory behind the Laffer Curve is widely accepted, the concept has become very controversial because politicians on both sides of the debate exaggerate. This video shows the middle ground between those who claim “all tax cuts pay for themselves” and those who claim tax policy has no impact on economic performance. This video, focusing on the theory of the Laffer Curve, is Part I of a three-part series. Part II reviews evidence of Laffer-Curve responses. Part III discusses how the revenue-estimating process in Washington can be improved. For more information please visit the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s web site: http://www.freedomandprosperity.org

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We got to reduce taxes to grow our economy!!!

Even though I’m not a Romney fan, I sometimes feel compelled to defend him against leftist demagoguery.

But instead of writing about tax havens, as I’ve done in the past, today we’re going to look at incremental tax reform.

The left has been loudly asserting that the middle class would lose under Mitt Romney’s plan to cut tax rates by 20 percent and finance those reductions by closing loopholes.

That class-warfare accusation struck me as a bit sketchy because when I looked at the data a couple of years ago, I put together this chart showing that rich people, on average, enjoyed deductions that were seven times as large as the deductions of middle-income taxpayers.

And the chart includes only the big itemized deductions. There are dozens of other special tax preferences, as shown in this depressing image, and you can be sure that rich people are far more likely to have the lawyers, lobbyists, and accountants needed to exploit those provisions.

But that’s not a surprise since the internal revenue code has morphed into a 72,000-page monstrosity (this is why I sometimes try to convince honest leftists that a flat tax is a great way of reducing political corruption).

But this chart doesn’t disprove the leftist talking point, so I’m glad that Martin Feldstein addressed the issue in today’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s some of what he wrote.

The IRS data show that taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes over $100,000 (the top 21% of all taxpayers) made itemized deductions totaling $636 billion in 2009. Those high-income taxpayers paid marginal tax rates of 25% to 35%, with most $200,000-plus earners paying marginal rates of 33% or 35%. And what do we get when we apply a 30% marginal tax rate to the $636 billion in itemized deductions? Extra revenue of $191 billion—more than enough to offset the revenue losses from the individual income tax cuts proposed by Gov. Romney. …Additional revenue could be raised from high-income taxpayers by limiting the use of the “preferences” identified for the Alternative Minimum Tax (such as excess oil depletion allowances) or the broader list of all official individual “tax expenditures” (such as tax credits for energy efficiency improvements in homes), among other credits and exclusions. None of this base-broadening would require taxing capital gains or making other changes that would reduce the incentives for saving and investment. …Since broadening the tax base would produce enough revenue to pay for cutting everyone’s tax rates, it is clear that the proposed Romney cuts wouldn’t require any middle-class tax increase, nor would they produce a net windfall for high-income taxpayers. The Tax Policy Center and others are wrong to claim otherwise.

In other words, even with a very modest assumption about the Laffer Curve, it would be quite possible to implement something akin to what Romney’s proposing and not “lose” tax revenue.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that Romney seriously intends to push for good policy. I’m much more concerned, for instance, that he’ll wander in the wrong direction and propose something very bad such as a value-added tax.

But Romney certainly can do the right thing if he wins. Assuming that’s what he wants to do.

Just like he can fulfill his promise the reduce the burden of government spending by implementing Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms. But don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

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The Laffer Curve, Part II: Reviewing the Evidence

This video is second installment of a three-part series. Part I reviews theoretical relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. Part III discusses how the revenue-estimating process in Washington can be improved. For more information please visit the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s web site: http://www.freedomandprosperity.org.

The Laffer Curve, Part III: Dynamic Scoring

September 19, 2012 – 6:37 am Categories: Cato Institute, Taxes | Post a comment

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Romney responds to my letter on abortion

Francis Schaeffer February 21, 1982 (Part 1)

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I sent Romney 12 letters on the prolife movement and many of these letters including the writings of Dr. Francis Schaeffer. Here are two clips from Schaeffer that sum up his views on abortion.

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Francis Schaeffer February 21, 1982 (Part 2)

I know that letters like this from Romney below have been spotted over the internet and I don’t suggest that this was written up recently just for me. I received a letter back on September 17, 2012 from Mitt Romney and it stated:

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002,

Dear Everette,

Thank you for contacting me about the important issue of abortion. I appreciate your interest in my campaign for president and would like to thank you for taking the time to share your views with me.

I am firmly pro-life. I believe that if abortion were limited to cases of rape, incest, and circumstances in which the mother’s life is in peril, we will have gone a long way to ending abortion in this country. I support the reversal of Roe v. Wade, because it is bad law and bad medicine. Roe was a misguided ruling that was a result of a small group of activist federal judges legislating from the bench.

I support the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions. And as president, I will end federal funding for abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood.

I will reinstate the Mexico City Policy to ensure that nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from America refrain from performing or promoting abortion services, as a method of family planning, in other countries. This includes ending American funding for any United Nations or other foreign assistance program that promotes or performs abortions on women around the world.

I will advocate for and support a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.

And perhaps most importantly, I will only appoint judges who adhere to the Constitution and the laws as they are written, not as they want them to be written.

As Governor of Massachusetts, I fought to promote abstinence education in the classroom, vetoed legislation to provide emergency contraception without a prescription, and vetoed embryonic cloning legislation. I am proud to say that each time I was presented with legislation on life issues, I sided with life. I remain strongly dedicated to that position.

I am running for president because I believe in America and know that our best days are still ahead. I believe that the principles that made America the leader of the world today—freedom, opportunity, and free enterprise to name just a few—are the very principles that will keep America the leader of the world tomorrow. These last few years have not been the best of times. But while we’ve lost a few years, we have not lost our way.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I encourage you to visit my website at www.MittRomney.com for updated information on this and other issues that maybe of interest to you. I look forward to hearing from you in the future, and earning your support.

Sincerely, Mitt Romney

Romney for President. Inc, P.O.Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756.

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Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 8)

Superbowl commercial with Tim Tebow and Mom. To Mitt Romney, Box 96994, Washington, DC 20077-7556  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 7)

___________________________________________ Francis Schaeffer is a hero of mine and I want to honor him with a series of posts on Sundays called “Schaeffer Sundays” which will include his writings and clips from his film series. I have posted many times in the past using his material. Philosopher and Theologian, Francis A. Schaeffer has argued, “If […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 6)

A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer (Part 1) To Mitt Romney, Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 5)

Part 1 Part 2 To Mitt Romney, Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 4)

Part 1 Part 2 To Mitt Romney, Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 3)

To Mitt Romney, Box 96994, Washington, DC 20077-7556  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He told him that the […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 2)

What Ever Happened to the Human Race? To Mitt Romney, Box 96861, Washington, DC 20090-6861,  From Everette Hatcher of http://www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002 Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush […]

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 1)

Francis Schaeffer February 21, 1982 (Part 1) Uploaded by DeBunker7 on Feb 21, 2008 READ THIS FIRST: In decline of all civilizations we first see a war against the freedom of ideas. Discussion is limited or prohibited. Speakers at universities are shouted down. Corruption takes over city governments and towns as dishonesty and corruption expands. […]

 

September 18, 2012 – 7:39 am Categories: Prolife | Post a comment

Randy White speaks to Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 1

I have written a lot about the Dallas Cowboys in the past. One of my favorite stories is getting to ask Pat Summerall a question about Tom Landry and his answer was a classic one. 

I simply asked him if he had a chance to interact with any Christian Coaches like Tony Dungy or Tom Landry about his conversion. He said that he told Landry about his conversion and that was the only time he ever saw Landry smile. Walt Garrison told Summerall that he never saw Landry smile but he only played for him for 9 years.

Recalling NFL reality of yore

White has stories, concerns

 

By Jeff Halpern

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

LITTLE ROCK — Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White said he would not change the way he played the game as a member of the Dallas Cowboys, but he would like to see change in the way the NFL treats its retirees.

Randy White speaks to LRTD Club

 

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Randy White spoke to members of the Little Rock Touchdown Club. The Hall of Famer was a 9-time All-Pro selection. (By David Harten)
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White, who was a nine time All-Pro in a 14-year career, said he hopes players who are retired get better care when it comes to health insurance and current and future players get better information about concussions.

White, 59, who lives in Dallas, hosts a Cowboys pregame show on KTVT, Channel 11, in Dallas and owns Randy White’s Hall of Fame BBQ & Grill in Frisco, Texas, addressed those two issues Monday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club’s weekly luncheon at the Embassy Suites hotel in Little Rock.

White said he started paying serious attention to retirement issues about15 years ago after he and a group of Hall of Famers attended a speech given by the late Gene Upshaw, former NFL Players Association executive director.

“He told us his loyalty was to the current players and not the former ones and that almost started a fight,” White said. “As a player, I never thought about retirement, but all of the players are going to be retired someday and I want them to be taken care of. Sometimes, it seems like the NFL and its union have taken the attitude that [former player and coach] Mike Ditka has referred to as deny, deny and die.”

White, who said he’s going to need to have his shoulder and knee replaced eventually, is starting to feel some of the effects from a 209-game career. He’s also among approximately 3,000 former players who have sued the NFL, charging that the NFL did not do enough to inform them about the dangers of concussions when they were playing.

“When it’s time to for my grandson to play football, I hope the research is there and contains valuable information,” White said. “I know these things filter down and I want them to know what the risks are. We’re suing because we feel some of the information was withheld from us. Me personally, I wouldn’t do anything differently. You can get hurt playing football. Then again, you can get hurt stepping off a curb.”

White also addressed the New Orleans bounty scandal, which drew a one-year suspension for Coach Sean Payon and pending suspensions for four players. White said cheap shots would have been flagged by the officials and he also had a difficult time believing players were being paid to deliver those hits. He said the players don’t need extra incentive and if they did, they didn’t need to be in the NFL.

“I wanted to hit guys hard, but I never wanted to hurt somebody,” White said. “I was never a dirty player and it was never my intention to hurt somebody.”

White said he was stirred up by the Cowboys’ NFC East rivalries and liked to quiet their fans.

He said games against the Washington Redskins were the best because there was usually a playoff berth, division title or home-field advantage in the playoffs at stake.

“We’d go in those places and it would be loud because those fans didn’t like you and it was always a lot of fun walking out of there after beating them and being able to hear a pin drop,” White said.

He said he often disliked rival players, using former Washington Redskins running back John Riggins as an example, until doing a show handicapping NFL games in Las Vegas with Riggins and former Chicago Bears defensive lineman Dan Hampton.

“At first, I said, ‘Riggins, I used to push him and step on him’ and one day he looked at me and said, ‘Randy, I’m not sure I like you, but you’re all right,’ ” White said.

That attitude extended to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who defeated the Cowboys in Super Bowl X and XIII. “Did I hate the Steelers? I didn’t like them, but I respected them.”

Sports, Pages 15 on 09/18/2012

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Howard Schnellenberger speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 3

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I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger talk on Sept 4, 2012 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. Schnellenberger said that Bear Bryant had the greatest ability to both instruct a player with criticism but then build him up also. He made a point of making sure he did both during a practice. Under Schnellenburger direction […]

Howard Schnellenberger speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 1

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Hogs benefit by trading Kentucky for Tennessee in 2012 football schedule?

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Who deserved the 1978 national championship: USC or Bama?

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USC-ND ’74 – The Anthony Davis Game Uploaded by sckego on Aug 6, 2006 Notre Dame was killing USC 24-0 with a minute left in first half of the 1974 game in Los Angeles. Anthony Davis caught a TD pass to close out the half, then returned the 2nd half kickoff for a touchdown, and […]

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September 18, 2012 – 7:16 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Will entitlement society kill American dream?

Sadly, “The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government.” I really do hate it because it affects so many people’s attitudes towards hard work and government dependency. However, after reading this article below I am very aware of that sad fact.

I wrote a celebratory post last November about the dramatic difference between Americans and Europeans. There truly is American exceptionalism in that Europeans are much more likely to think it is government’s responsibility to provide the basics of life.

Another poll in 2010 showed Americans, by a 20-percentage point margin, want smaller government and lower taxes. A 2011 poll revealed negative views, by an almost 2-1 margin, of the federal government. And it’s not scientific, or even a poll, but I also enjoyed this Mark Steyn column  describing how Americans were the only people in the world to protest for less government when the financial crisis hit.

Perhaps most impressive is this data from late last year showing that Americans overwhelmingly view big government as the greatest threat to the nation’s future.

But self reliance and individualism are not necessarily a permanent part of American DNA, and some left wingers openly argue that they want to create an entitlement mindset.

Based on what’s already happened, Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute is worried that the narcotic of dependency may be diluting American exceptionalism.

Here are some key passages from Eberstadt’s column, beginning with a look at what makes America special.

From the founding of our nation until quite recently, the U.S. and its citizens were regarded, at home and abroad, as exceptional in a number of deep and important respects. One of these was their fierce and principled independence, which informed not only the design of the political experiment that is the U.S. Constitution but also their approach to everyday affairs. The proud self-reliance that struck Alexis de Tocqueville in his visit to the U.S. in the early 1830s extended to personal finances. The American “individualism” about which he wrote did not exclude social cooperation—the young nation was a hotbed of civic associations and voluntary organizations. But in an environment bursting with opportunity, American men and women viewed themselves as accountable for their own situation through their own achievements—a novel outlook at that time, markedly different from the prevailing attitudes of the Old World (or at least the Continent). The corollaries of this American ethos were, on the one hand, an affinity for personal enterprise and industry and, on the other, a horror of dependency and contempt for anything that smacked of a mendicant mentality. Although many Americans in earlier times were poor, even people in fairly desperate circumstances were known to refuse help or handouts as an affront to their dignity and independence. People who subsisted on public resources were known as “paupers,” and provision for them was a local undertaking. Neither beneficiaries nor recipients held the condition of pauperism in high regard.

That’s the good news. Now for the bad news.

The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government. From cradle to grave, a treasure chest of government-supplied benefits is there for the taking for every American citizen—and exercising one’s legal rights to these many blandishments is now part of the American way of life. …Citizens have become ever more broad-minded about the propriety of tapping new sources of finance for supporting their appetite for more entitlements. The taker mentality has thus ineluctably gravitated toward taking from a pool of citizens who can offer no resistance to such schemes: the unborn descendants of today’s entitlement-seeking population. …The U.S. is a very wealthy society. If it so chooses, it has vast resources to squander. And internationally, the dollar is still the world’s reserve currency; there remains great scope for financial abuse of that privilege. Such devices might well postpone the day of fiscal judgment: not so the day of reckoning for American character, which may be sacrificed long before the credibility of the U.S. economy. Some would argue that it is an asset already wasting away before our very eyes.

If you think Eberstadt is being needlessly pessimistic, you may change your mind if you read this and this.

To be sure, it’s possible to reverse this trend if we implement entitlement reform. But how likely is that given the short-sighted outlook and self-interested attitude of the political class.

P.S. You can enjoy some cartoons about dependency here, here, and here. If you need some more humor, this cartoon looks at the issue from the government’s perspective, and here’s a great Ramirez cartoon about Julia, a.k.a., the poster child of dependency.

P.P.S. Redistribution is bad for prosperity because you’re paying some people not to produce and you’re penalizing some people who do produce. To get a better idea of how the former kills incentives, look at this amazing chart.

September 18, 2012 – 6:22 am Categories: Uncategorized | Post a comment

Open letter to President Obama (Part 142 B)

President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

This excessive spending by Washington today is not responsible government in action.

Obama’s Comments: A Gift that Keeps on Giving

Posted by Roger Pilon

Today POLITICO Arena asks:

Does Senator Grassley’s tweet, that the American people “r not stupid as this x prof of con law,” make an important point or was it disrespectful? Is this a sign that Obama’s Supreme Court comments won’t be going away?

There’s enough disrespect to go around – for the president (Grassley), for the Supreme Court (Obama). It’s the larger question about Obama’s comments on the Court and the Constitution that’s more important, because it’s not going away, and for good reason. Look no further than to this morning’s Washington Post, where E.J. Dionne Jr. is falling all over himself in defense of Obama. After the Court’s oral arguments over ObamaCare, it’s finally dawning on modern liberals that their project for ubiquitous government is under serious political and even legal attack, so they’re fighting back.

Like others in the liberal establishment last week, Dionne links Obama’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s attacks on the Court. But he links those in turn to Obama’s ”social Darwinism” attack next day on the Ryan-Romney budget — a budget, Dionne writes, that would cut back “student loans, medical and scientific research grants, Head Start, feeding programs for the poor, and possibly even the weather service.” Indeed, it’s “so far to the right,” Obama said, that it makes the Republicans’ 1994 Contract With America “look like the New Deal.”

What Obama and his liberal apologists fail to accept, of course, is that their welfare-state project is spent, literally. They pose as defenders of welfare programs for the poor and, now, the middle class, while either ignoring the deficits and debt those programs have run up or, at best, arguing that taxing the rich will solve the problem, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Thus the Democratic Senate has failed to pass a budget in over a thousand days, and no one gives the administration’s budget a moment’s thought. Their pose is just that, because unless we come to grips with these systemic problems, there will be no student loans, Head Start, and all the rest, because “entitlements” and service on the debt will consume everything, until they too will go by the way.

Our Constitution for limited government was written to avoid this dilemma. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust” thought they were wiser than the Framers, much like today’s liberals. Grassley’s mistake was in choosing the wrong word. It’s not “stupid,” it’s “irresponsible.” Santa Claus comes only once a year. The rest of the year we have to behave like adults.

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

I have posted many times about the overspending in Washington. Here are a few of those posts listed below:

Conan hires comics to invent mythical wasteful programs

Sometimes it is tragic that you got to laugh about it. Dear Conan, Reckless Government Spending Is Worse Than You Think Brandon Stewart August 10, 2011 at 7:31 pm Late-night comedian Conan O’Brien’s blog has a new post parodying Washington’s excessive spending. “Team Coco has found out why our government is so broke,” the blog explains, “They’ve […]

Stimulus did not work (Great advice from a letter to the editor series)

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Senator Pryor asks for Spending Cut Suggestions! Here are a few!(Part 142)

Senator Mark Pryor wants our ideas on how to cut federal spending. Take a look at this video clip below: Senator Pryor has asked us to send our ideas to him at cutspending@pryor.senate.gov and I have done so in the past and will continue to do so in the future. On May 11, 2011,  I emailed to […]

Listing of transcripts and videos of “Free to Choose” episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave on www.theDailyHatch.org

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Obama’s big government solutions have not worked

Government Spending Doesn’t Create Jobs Uploaded by catoinstitutevideo on Sep 7, 2011 Share this on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/qnjkn9 Tweet it: http://tiny.cc/o9v9t In the debate of job creation and how best to pursue it as a policy goal, one point is forgotten: Government doesn’t create jobs. Government only diverts resources from one use to another, which doesn’t […]

“Feedback Friday” Letter to White House generated form letter response Jan 25, 2011 (part 1)

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President Obama’s plan is failing and he is attacking all opposing plans

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Dear Senator Pryor, why not pass the Balanced Budget Amendment? (“Thirsty Thursday”, Open letter to Senator Pryor)

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Heritage Foundation Videos and Interviews are displayed on www.thedailyhatch.org

Sen. Mitch McConnell: Americans Don’t Approve of Anything Obama Has Done Uploaded by HeritageFoundation on Dec 8, 2011 In an exclusive interview at The Heritage Foundation, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sharply criticized President Obama for engaging in class warfare and accused him of shifting the focus away from his own failed policies in […]

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute on President Obama’s “Social Darwinism speech”

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute rightly has pointed out that President Obama is off base to be critical of Paul Ryan’s budget since it allows the government to grow by over 3% each year and he wished that the Republicans would taking a sharper knife to the budget cuts!!!! Appearing on PBS to Debate […]

September 18, 2012 – 6:16 am Categories: Cato Institute, President Obama, spending out of control | Post a comment

“Tennis Tuesday” David Wheaton (Part 1)

Testimony David Wheaton Tennis

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Testimony David Wheaton Tennis

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Wikipedia reports:

Country  United States
Residence Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota
Born June 2, 1969 (1969-06-02) (age 42)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 84 kg (190 lb; 13.2 st)
Turned pro 1988
Retired 2001
Plays Right-handed
Career prize money US$5,238,401
Singles
Career record 232–191
Career titles 3
Highest ranking No. 12 (July 22, 1991)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open QF (1990)
French Open 3R (1995)
Wimbledon SF (1991)
US Open QF (1990)
Doubles
Career record 157–122
Career titles 3
Highest ranking No. 24 (June 24, 1991)
Last updated on: July 4, 2007.

1991 Wimbledon Jimmy Connors Michael Stich Boris Becker Final

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1991 Wimbledon Jimmy Connors David Wheaton Andre Agassi Michael Stich Boris Becker Final
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David Wheaton has an excellent show and website at www.Christianworldview.org Below is some material from his website:

Mission

The Christian Worldview has a two-fold mission: 1.) to help Christians develop a comprehensive biblical worldview about all matters of life and faith so that they, their families, and their churches will be strong, effective, God-glorifying ambassadors for Jesus Christ, and 2.) to share the good news that all people can be reconciled to God through repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

This mission is pursued two ways:

  1. The Christian Worldview is a nationally-syndicated radio program hosted by David Wheaton that airs every Saturday from 8-9am Central Time on ~200 radio stations and is also available online via podcast, streaming, and TheChristianWorldview.org. Featuring compelling topics, notable guests, listener calls, and sound bites, the program focuses on current events, cultural issues, and matters of faith from a decidedly biblical perspective.
  2. TheChristianWorldview.org is an extensive website resource that provides audio, video, and written content from some of the most respected Christian leaders.

What is a Worldview?

A worldview is a personal collection of beliefs through which all of life is perceived and lived. There are several prominent worldviews — Christian, secular humanistic, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, New Age and others — including subsets of each and crossovers between two or more. Every person has a worldview.

The real question is: “Is your worldview true?” All worldviews are based on someone or something — a religious leader, philosopher, professor, writer, popular culture, organization, book, etc. The reason we believe the Christian worldview is worth following is because it is based on the Bible which claims to be entirely true and has never been proven otherwise.

Bad News – Good News

Rejection of the Christian worldview — or in other words, disobeying God’s will as written in the Bible, also known as sin — is ultimately the root cause of all the conflict and injustice within individuals, families, communities, nations, and the world.

The good news is that anyone who repents of their sin against God and places their faith or trust in His Son, Jesus Christ, as paying the required sacrifice for their sin and then follows Him as Lord, can be reconciled to God and then begin the life-long process of developing a Christian worldview to the praise and honor and glory of God.

Being in a right relationship with your Creator and then seeking to understand and live as He desires is the purpose of life. Hence our slogan: “Think Biblically, Live Accordingly.”

Until Christians are strengthened and non-Christians are reconciled,

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