Brock and the Glock [Reader Post]

Sometimes a story is just too good to let pass

Armed men guarded Media Matters boss as he took $400,000 gun control donation

The recent revelation that the head of Media Matters walked the streets of Washington with a Glock-toting personal assistant acting as a bodyguard may make it a little awkward for the group the next time it seeks a donation from a gun control advocacy group.

Senate’s Intransigence Should Prompt Repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment [Reader Post]

As of today, it has been 1,028 days since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget.

That’s about 20 dog years.

Imagine if you were employed in a business where one of your duties was to plan an annual budget for each upcoming year and you just decided you weren’t going to do it. And 1,028 days later, you still had not done it.

Undefeated

“You think football builds character…it does not. Football reveals character.”– Bill Courtney, turnaround coach of the Manassas Tigers

Not to be confused with the Sarah Palin movie. This one isn’t about partisan politics. It’s not even about football. Football is merely the vessel carrying the spiritual nourishment.

Best-doc nominee Undefeated chronicles a struggling inner-city Memphis football team led by a coach who transforms their game—and their lives.