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Karl Zinsmeister
American Enterprise Institute 1150 17th Street. NW, Suite 1100 Washington, D.C. 20036
General Karl Eikenberry
(just searching the documents for Karls)
I agree with 95% of your column, but I think you're selling Robbie Lawler very short.
Lawler's last fight in the UFC was in 2004, and he's improved massively since then. He's an interesting case because, with a losing record in the UFC, he was always offered small purses to come back, whereas since he was the biggest name fighter in his division in the small organizations he was fighting in, he would receive larger purses outside of the UFC.
In the UFC Lawler was utterly green, just a tough kid with tons and tons of talent, and in the years since then he's matured and grown into the elite fighter we saw on Saturday. He's probably one of the four or five best fighters at 185 in the world, and deserves much more credit than just being called a 'UFC Washout'.
We should remember though, that a DUI conviction or two delegitimizes that other woman as a credible witness.
I take great exception to your comment, Glenn.
You have insulted unprepared junior high students across this great country.
One could talk about how to influence the likely democrat-dominated government in a positive way, through organizations such as actblue. Of course you realize it, but it bears acknowledging that an Obama victory is only the first step down a long road to a better country.
Forgive me if I'm exposing my ignorance, but doesn't the geneva convention bar any sort of coercion in interrogations?
That is, it's possible (and from the language used, seems to me likely) that Holder was advocating a system where the prisoners would be given geneva-like rights while still being interrogated humanely.
Obviously it was an act of political cowardice to try to appease those in the military/intelligence community trying to cover their own asses, but couldn't a rejection of such pathetic reasoning have been completely expected?
I mean, if Obama had really wanted to keep the photos secret, couldn't he has just decreed states secrets yet again? Seems like what transpired here is just him caving to pressure and being an unprincipled weakling more than anything.
Or maybe I'm just being naive.
Glenn,
I will not sit idly by while you smear the Green Arrow. He is a hero of the working class, wrongfully imprisoned. To imply that arch-villains such as Lex Luthor or the Joker would assist him, and thereby lumping him in with them is irresponsible and nothing more than a smear campaign.