Bingo!!!!!

It's just words, right? Another writer who relies on spell checker instead of actually proof-reading.

Yes, let's join hands with the Paulistas, whose hero just showed that he not only hates war but also the soldiers who fight it. As restoreliberty wrote, I think not!

"And so this game of Texas Hold 'Em goes on" Actually, it is closer akin to "Go Fish."

Well, of course they have fact-checkers! And, they all use the pages of the NY Times for their facts!

Chris, you are not being fair! There is no way that you, with your actual experience and firsthand knowledge, should be allowed to question the Talking Points Paper this guy is trying to parrot.

Fabius, How about we try 4.5597 billion instead of trillion. He means, I guess, that even though the US and China have relatively huge populations, they can enter only so many athletes in an event. I think the pertinent point about this is not in the numbers who actually participate in the competition, but in the much larger national pool of athletes from which the teams could be selected. In sports, I think the only thing worse than a poor loser is a poor winner!

Gordon, the only true expert on sleaze that you have nominated is Karl Rove. To have a panel of true sleaze experts (i.e., who live and breathe the philosophy of sleaze-ism), we would have to add Alan Colmes, Bob Boeckel, Nancy Pelosi and one (any) politician from Chicago!

Of course, he can't really become a recidivist until he gets thrown into prison where he so richly belongs.

"With this hopeful prospect, why the near despair among so many Republicans about the long term?" Maybe it's because we realize that we have an even chance of being stuck with leadership composed of Romney, Boehner and McConnell. The only thing I can think of right now that is worse is Obama, Reid and Pelosi!