Quick Name Press At NFL Draft

We thought this was an interesting story. We wondered how they did it and now we know.  Yes, it's a bit off the traditional stuff about which we write, however, don't we all need something light every once in a while?

Conservative Tom

P.S.  The Lions are the last team in this article and they should be the last team in my book (as well as every NFL fan) even if they are our home team. They will not be our team until the owner sells them! Detroit has suffered with over 50 years of mediocrity, at best, and holds the record for the only 0-16 team in NFL history. It is time for a new owner!

EVER WONDER HOW NAMES GET ON JERSEYS SO QUICKLY AT THE NFL DRAFT?

Apr. 26, 2013 9:23am Liz Klimas

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If you caught any part of the NFL draft’s first round on Thursday you might have wondered how new players’ names were on jerseys of the team signing them so quickly.

Are there options for each player for each potential team (which would be a huge waste)? Are there few options for teams speculated to sign a specific player? Or is someone there actually sewing names onto the appropriate jersey in real time?

Believe it or not, as Yahoo! Sports pointed out, Nike actually has a crew in the wings putting the correct name with the jersey once the decision is made. NFL expert Darren Rovell has a picture:

This practice began last year and NBC Sports Pro Football Talk reported at the time that the names of players are already printed and then applied onto the back of the appropriate jersey for photo ops.

Here’s a look at such jerseys from Thursday night:

New Draftees Holding Jerseys

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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Former New England Patriots player Joe Andruzzi (L) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hold up a New England Patriot jersey with the # 617 on it in honor of the victims and those affected by this years bombing at the Boston Marathon in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Cordarelle Patterson of the Tennessee Volunteers holds up a jersey after he was selected #29 overall by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Chris Chambers/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Eric Fisher (R) of Central Michigan Chippewas stands on stage with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after Fisher was picked #1 overall by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Xavier Rhodes of the Florida State Seminoles holds up a jersey on stage after he was picked #25 overall by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Sharrif Floyd of the Florida Gators holds up a jersey on stage after he was picked #23 overall by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Bjoern Werner of the Florida State Seminoles holds up a jersey on stage after he was picked #24 overall by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Kenny Vaccaro of the Texas Longhorns, stands with 13-year-old Markell Gregoire (L) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (R) as they hold up a jersey on stage after he was picked #15 overall by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Dee Milliner (R) of the Alabama Crimson Tide stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as they hold up a jersey on stage after Milliner was picked #9 overall by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Eric Reid (C) of the LSU Tigers holds his daughter Leilani as they stand with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as they hold up a jersey on stage after Reid was picked #18 overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: E.J. Manuel of the Florida State Seminoles holds up a jersey on stage after he was picked #16 overall by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Chris Chambers/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Dee Milliner (R) of the Alabama Crimson Tide stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as they hold up a jersey on stage after Milliner was picked #9 overall by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Chance Warmack of the Alabama Crimson Tide stands on stage with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (L) as they hold up a jersey on stage after he was picked #10 overall by the Tennessee Titans in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Jonathan Cooper of North Carolina Tar Heels stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (L) as they hold up a jersey on stage after Cooper was picked #7 overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: D.J. Fluker of the Alabama Crimson Tide holds up a jersey on stage after he was picked #11 overall by the San Diego Chargers in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Sheldon Richardson of the Missouri Tigers stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (L) as they hold up a jersey on stage after Richardson was picked #13 overall by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Lane Johnson of the Oklahoma Sooners stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (L) as they hold up a jersey on stage after Johnson was picked #4 overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Dee Milliner of the Alabama Crimson holds up a jersey on stage after Milliner was picked #9 overall by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Barkevious Mingo of the LSU Tigers stands on stage with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell as they hold up a jersey on stage after Mingo was picked #6 overall by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Al Bello/Getty ImagesNEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Tavon Austin (R) of West Virginia Mountaineers reacts after Austin was picked #8 overall by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City.
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  Jason DeCrow/APEzekiel Ansah, from Brigham Young, stands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Barry Sanders after being selected fifth overall by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 25, 2013, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The number one draft pick went to the Kansas City Chiefs who took offensive tackle Eric Fisher of Central Michigan.

Linemen were among the most drafted during the first round with 18 teams picking up more than 2 1/2 tons of linemen.

Surprising to some though Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker who was taken for a very publicly exposed ride over a fake Internet girlfriend last year, was not drafted and waits for the second round Friday. It wasn’t this embarrassing hoax that likely dropped him out of a first round pick, but his less than stellar performance in the national championship game against Alabama.

Watch the Fox Sports NFL first round draft recap:

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Shotgun vs. Baseball Bat -Wonder What Happenned

INTRUDER WITH A BASEBALL BAT VS. TEXAS MAN WITH A SHOTGUN — HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED

Apr. 24, 2013 10:37pm Jason Howerton

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A man in Midland, Texas shot and killed an intruder who attempted to break into his residence on Tuesday night, the Midland Reporter-Telegram reports. The intruder was armed with a baseball bat.

Police in Midland responded to the shooting at around midnight on Tuesday where they found 32-year-old Samuel Pompa with a shotgun wound to the chest. He was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital where he later died from his injuries, according to a press release from the city’s public information officer.

Police say Pompa tried to break into the residence of a 19-year-old who was living in a different unit but at the same address as him. It was likely an apartment complex, however, the reports did not confirm that.

The victim in the case told police that he used his shotgun to protect himself and others in his residence after Pompa tried to gain entry armed with a baseball bat. Police have not arrested anyone in connection with Pompa’s death.

“An autopsy will be conducted, and after it is completed the case will be sent to the District Attorney’s Office,” the Reporter-Telegram adds.

Media Political Correctness At The NRA 500

DID THE AP, ESPN, AND FOX REFUSE TO MENTION ‘NRA 500′ BY OFFICIAL NAME? WHAT WE FOUND MAY SURPRISE YOU

Apr. 14, 2013 3:32am Jonathon M. Seidl

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FORT WORTH, TX – APRIL 13: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Interstate Batteries Toyota, celebrates by shooting revolvers in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 13, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: (Credit too long, see caption)

If you thought that the media was fueling an anti-NRA bias in the wake of the group sponsoring a NASCAR race in Texas, the Associated Press (AP), ESPN, and even reportedly Fox fueled that theory with their handling of the race’s coverage.

The AP wrote an entire article without referencing the race’s official name, the NRA 500. ESPN’s live, 1am ET edition of SportsCenter did the same thing. TheBlaze also received several tips from those who watched the race on Fox’s local affiliates saying the network, too, seemed to be erasing the NRA from it’s paid-for position.

But further examination reveals that the three outlets seem to have been simply keeping in line with the way they’ve recently handled official race names, specifically when looking at last week’s race in Martinsville as a comparison.

The coverage and complaints

The AP’s recap of the NRA 500, titled “Kyle Busch gets NASCAR weekend sweep at Texas,” references “Texas Motor Speedway” and “Saturday night in the Sprint Cup race,” while also mentioning the controversy surrounding the “National Rifle Association.” But it never goes on to mention the full race name.

Similarly, on Saturday’s early morning recap of the race on ESPN the anchors used more generic references to the race being in Texas. Likewise, the network’s graphics never showed the race’s correct, full name. Here’s the official version on the ESPN YouTube channel:

And here’s a more complete version:

“Fox NASCAR broadcast hasn’t mentioned the ACTUAL name of the race tonight (NRA 500) once since the race began,” one tipper told TheBlaze in extending the critique toward Fox. “Only mentioning sprint cup series, Texas Motor Speedway, etc. Also not using ANY NRA 500 graphics for their broadcast.”

“Not only did FOX avoid saying or showing ‘NRA 500′ tonight, but they changed the name of the race on the TV screen,” another said. “After the race, the scroll bar with the results was titled ‘Texas 500 Unofficial Results.’  It should have been titled ‘NRA 500 Unofficial Results.’”*

But when compared to last week…

Upon further examination, The AP’s non-use might not be that odd. In it’s recap of last week’s context at Martinsville, the AP did not use that race’s official name, the STP Gas Booster 500.

“No matter the changes to the car, the tires, or the weather, Martinsville Speedway is Jimmie Johnson’s kind of place,” that story’s introduction says. “Johnson led a career-best 346 laps Sunday and pulled away on a restart with eight laps to go for his eighth career victory on the shortest track in the Sprint Cup Series, taking over third place on the career victories list on NASCAR’s oldest track.”

And this is how the story on the NRA 500 begins:

Kyle Busch was just trying to maintain the pace behind Martin Truex Jr. while waiting for his chance.

The No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team pounced when the yellow flag came out with 21 laps to go at Texas Motor Speedway.

Busch finally regained the lead on pit road during that caution then held on for the final 16 laps after the last restart Saturday night in the Sprint Cup race, completing a NASCAR weekend sweep.

As for ESPN, while recapping last week’s Martinsville race on air, the network did not mention the name “STP Gas Booster 500″:

Additionally, in a post-race interview with Busch the initials “NRA” as well as the race’s NRA logo are visible over his left shoulder. (ESPN had earlier reported that two racers were told not to conduct interviews in the track’s media center to avoid appearing with the NRA log — it appears Busch wasn’t one of them.)

So what about Fox?

An initial review of video from last week’s finish in Martinsville, Virginia, reveals that Fox referred to those results as the “Martinsville 500 unofficial results,” which would mirror the way our tipster says Fox proceeded on Saturday:

Screen shot from Fox’s coverage of the Spring Cup race at Martinsville on April 7.

Also, the introduction show of last week’s race didn’t include that Martinsville race’s official name either:

A screen shot showing how Fox referred to the STP Gas Booster 500 at Martinsville on April 7.

And finally, it appears there are several races that Fox doesn’t refer to by the sponsorship name when we compared the Fox race schedule with the official NASCAR schedule. It’s unclear what determines when or why the Fox schedule will refer to some sponsor-named races but not others.

Still, it should be pointed out that USA Today did not shy away from using the full name for Saturday’s race — it mentioned the “NRA 500″ in both its headline and its introduction, while even including a picture of winner Kyle Busch taking part in the Texas track’s tradition of the winner firing blanks from revolvers in the winner’s circle:

A screen shot of how USA Today covered the results of the NRA 500.

So did the outlets intentionally ignore the NRA and its sponsorship? It seems they at least kept in line with last week’s precedent.

But then again, maybe they were all breathing a sigh of a relief that such a precedent existed.

​*Editor’s note: TheBlaze cannot confirm nor deny our tipsters’ claims that no mentions were made of the “NRA 500″ during broadcast, but the point of our story is to note that at key parts of the race, not mentioning the name seems to fall in line with previous races.

UPDATE:

According to the Associated Press’s 2010 style book, the guide says to name sponsors. From the book:

Sports Sponsorship: If the sponsor’s name is part of the event name, such as the Buick Open, use the name in the title. If there is a previously established name commonly accepted for the event — ​Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl ​– use that name even if there currently is a corporate sponsor. ​orange Bowl​, not ​FedEx Orange Bowl​. However, mention the sponsor somewhere in the story or in a self-contained paragraph after a 3-em dash at the bottom of the story.

It’s unclear if the style guide has changed on this subject since 2010, but TheBlaze has reached out to the Associated Press for clarification.

Additionally, Blaze reader Richard C., claiming to have “worked in motorsports tv for around 20 years,” writes to say that race sponsors do not necessarily automatically get TV mentions. He explains:

The deal is this: the track sells sponsorship of the race, for track naming rights only. If the track sponsor (NRA) wants the whole on air naming and graphics and such, they have to buy a minimum ad buy or race name rights from the network. This has come up several times in Nascar, with the last time I remember was at Atlanta (coincidentally a Speedway Motorsports owned track) a few years ago. So the real question is, did NRA (of which I am a member) buy ad time or television naming rights, not if Fox was censoring.

If true, that’s a good question. We’ve reached out to the NRA with it.

Liberal Education Encouraged Bombers

Rush Limbaugh always has a unique look at the world. He is able to put several pieces together to come up with a very interesting point. So it is with is reflection, as reported in the following article, that liberal educators who despise  America and what it stands for encourage those who might become disaffected such as the Tsarnaev brothers.

Most liberal educators will probably turn themselves inside out to disagree but we believe that Rush is on target.  One cannot be inundated with hate speech against America and think that it will not have an negative effect.

It is time for educators to take responsibility for the seeds they have sowed!

Conservative Tom  

Rush Is Right About Boston Influence on Bombers

Radio talk show host and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013 11:56 AM

By Kent Clizbe

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The Boston Marathon massacre was carried out by two Caucasian Muslim brothers, one an American citizen, the other likely a green-card holder.

In the aftermath, the politically correct media and commentators are all flabbergasted. Over and over, the media reported, “Dzhokhar was a normal American kid.”

They wondered: What could be the terrorists’ motivations?

Recently, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh came under liberal media attack for linking the bombers’ behavior to the “liberal elite intellectual thought” that infects the Boston community.

Limbaugh explained to a caller on his show how such a mindset harms young kids.

“They hang around people that don’t like America, they get inspired or influenced by it somehow, and it’s no wonder,” Limbaugh said.

“And if you end up around the wrong people long enough and you’re young enough and impressionable enough, then that kind of thing can happen,” Limbaugh said.

With the questions swirling of why two upwardly mobile young people in America could commit such acts, a good place to start would be the “educations” the two Tsarnaev brothers received.

Younger brother Dzhokhar graduated from the celebrated Boston high school Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS). A graduate of CRLS has had years of anti-American claptrap crammed down his throat.

The media has widely quoted retired CRLS teacher Larry Aaronson’s shocked reminiscences about Dzhokhar. Aaronson told The Boston Globe, “This is a progressive town, the People’s Republic, and how could this be in our midst?

“I’m at a loss. I’m at a total and complete loss.”

Well, Larry might start looking at his own classroom handiwork. Aaronson is an acolyte of the raving, America-hating, deceased “revisionist historian” Howard Zinn.

Zinn was a liberal elite darling. Zinn claimed his eyes were opened to the racist, imperialist horror that is America by writer I.F. Stone, who later was confirmed to be a KGB covert influence agent when the Iron Curtain fell and certain Soviet documents became public.

Aaronson, who retired in 2007, used to brag to anyone who would listen that he had taught Zinn’s textbook to CLRS students since the beginning of his career in 1981.

Aaronson also proudly related how his students at CLRS had included actor Matt Damon and Damon’s brother.

He proudly told how the Damon boys were taken with the anti-American history of Zinn.
Larry, in an homage to Zinn upon his death in 2008, started with this quote from the movie “Good Will Hunting,” quoting Matt Damon, “You wanna read a really good American history book? Read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States.’ It will knock your socks off.”

If you don’t know Zinn’s handiwork, here’s a sample of his writing in The Progressive. Zinn’s contempt for America and its citizens fairly drips from each word: “The deeply ingrained belief — no, not from birth but from the educational system and from our culture in general that the United States is an especially virtuous nation makes us especially vulnerable to government deception. It starts early, in the first grade, when we are compelled to ‘pledge allegiance’ (before we even know what that means), forced to proclaim that we are a nation with ‘liberty and justice for all.’

“And then come the countless ceremonies, whether at the ballpark or elsewhere, where we are expected to stand and bow our heads during the singing of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ announcing that we are ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ There is also the unofficial national anthem ‘God Bless America,’ and you are looked on with suspicion if you ask why we would expect God to single out this one nation — just 5 percent of the world’s population — for his or her blessing.”

Aaronson boasted that angry parents called him to say their kids were talking about “that bastard Christopher Columbus … and his genocide, and how we have to question our history books and re-examine the evidence.” The CRLS teacher continued with relish, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

With that backstory illuminated, let’s return to the liberal media puzzling over “What could the Tsarnaev boys’ motive possibly be?”

After the Marathon massacre, the media quoted the Zinn-acolyte Aaronson in its stories about the terrorist mass murderer.

Aaronson was “utterly shocked by the news.” The media reported that, “Aaronson taught social studies at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, where Dzhokhar was a student.”
The media reports continued, “Dzhokhar also lives just about three houses down from Aaronson’s condo, so they would talk from time to time after Dzhokhar's graduation in 2011.”

“I will say to you and to anyone who asks me,” Aaronson told WBUR’s David Boeri outside his home in Cambridge on Friday morning, “he had a heart of gold, he was a sweetheart, he was gracious, he was caring, he was compassionate.”

ABC, CBS, USA Today, The New York Times, and CNN all carried versions of Aaronson’s comments about “how normal” his neighbor and student Dzhokhar was.
None of the media provided any other background on Aaronson and his brainwashing of students at CRLS with Zinn’s history.

The media reports studiously ignore the connection between Dzhokhar’s anti-American lessons taught by a “social justice” weenie like Aaronson or from a book by follower Zinn who took his cues from a KGB covert influence agent named Stone – and was later slyly celebrated in a Hollywood film known as Matt Damon’s “Good Will Hunting.”

As for the older brother Tamerlan’s “education,” it appears that he was a follower of a Lebanese-Australian extremist cleric whose messages of hatred for Western culture were prominent on Tamerlan’s YouTube playlists, and he may well have been taught terrorist techniques during a recent trip abroad.

It appears that Tamerlan recently spent six months overseas. In Russia? Or did he travel elsewhere? Did he go to Chechnya? Did he spend time in what appears to be his homeland, Dagestan, where his father now lives? Who did he meet there? What did he do there?


We do know that Tamerlan returned “from Russia” in the summer of 2012. His brother would have been out of high school for about a year. His return was about nine months before the Boston Marathon bombing.

If Tamerlan trained on bombing and attack techniques, he could have returned to Boston with the attack plan fully laid out. He would have the skills required to make the bombs. He would likely already have identified the target.

And he would have the techniques required to carry out the attacks. All that would be missing was the materials to make the bombs, and an accomplice.

So, in this scenario, we have a committed, trained Islamic terrorist ready to carry out his attack. What pool will he draw from to recruit his accomplice?

Why, his “average American” brother, Dzhokhar.

Kent Clizbe is a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer. His two books, “Willing Accomplices” and “Obliterating Exceptionalism,” detail how political correctness became part of American culture. His website is KentClizbe.com
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