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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>The Conversation We Won&#8217;t Have About Raising Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconvenient questions raised by the Ray Rice abuse scandal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241126" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RayRicePresser-397x350.jpg" alt="RayRicePresser" width="319" height="281" /></a>On Thursday night, the Baltimore Ravens took on the Pittsburgh Steelers. The event carried national significance thanks to the Ravens&#8217; public-induced decision to cut running back Ray Rice after tape emerged of Rice clocking his then-fiancee in the head, knocking her out cold. CBS sportscaster James Brown utilized his pregame show to draw attention to the problem of domestic violence — and suggest widespread culpability for domestic violence. &#8220;Our language is important,&#8221; Brown suggested. &#8220;For instance, when a guy says, &#8216;You throw the ball like a girl&#8217; or &#8216;You&#8217;re a little sissy,&#8217; it reflects an attitude that devalues women, and attitudes will eventually manifest in some fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brown wasn&#8217;t the only commentator to blame &#8220;The Sandlot&#8221; for Ray Rice&#8217;s horrifying Mike Tyson-esque blow to his future wife&#8217;s head. ESPN commentator Kate Fagan explained, &#8220;This is behavior that is happening at the grassroots level that is born through years of our culture like raising men to want to not be like women and using language like &#8216;sissy&#8217; and &#8216;you throw like a girl&#8217; that demean women. &#8230; [We need to focus on] really reprogramming how we raise men.&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, this talking point was celebrated far and wide by a mainstream press more interested in perpetuating the tenets of political correctness than in actually fighting domestic abuse. The real solution to domestic abuse is twofold: punishing it to the greatest possible extent, and yes, raising young men differently. But to state that the greatest risk factor for future domestic violence is insulting other boys as &#8220;throwing like girls&#8221; is pure idiocy. No man has ever hit a woman because she &#8220;throws like a girl.&#8221; But plenty of young men have hit women because they had no moral compass and did not believe in basic concepts of virtue — and plenty of young men lack such a moral compass and belief in virtue thanks to lack of male role models.</p>
<p>Teaching respect for women begins with ensuring that solid male influences models fill the lives of young men — men who respect women, cherish them, treasure them, and believe in protecting them. This is an unpopular stance, because it suggests that boys require men to raise them. Which they do. But that truth doesn&#8217;t fit the logic of the left, which seems to think that lack of fathers counts less than rhetorically bothersome phrases.</p>
<p>For leftists, the answer to domestic violence isn&#8217;t to deal with any of the issues that could lead boys to become abusing men. The answer, instead, is to lecture Americans about the use of the word &#8220;sissy&#8221; — not because that solves the problem, but because it makes those on the left feel warm and fuzzy inside. Similarly, the left will tell Americans that the name of the Washington Redskins matters far more to Native-Americans than the nearly half of Native-American youths who drop out of high school; they will explain that &#8220;microaggressions&#8221; are the true problem faced by blacks in America, not lack of education, poverty or unwed motherhood.</p>
<p>We extol the language police even as we castigate moral authorities. And so our problems grow worse. But at least we feel better about them.</p>
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		<title>Meet HuffPost’s New National Security Pundit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NFL vet &#038; former (?) 9/11 truther.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240464" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kj-233x350.jpg" alt="kj" width="172" height="258" /></a>The <em>Huffington Post</em> just raised some eyebrows in the journalism world last week by hiring an unusual political commentator to cover national security issues: ex-football player Donté Stallworth.</p>
<p>Stallworth, 33, played for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, and Washington Redskins before being waived by the latter team a year ago (asked in an <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/01/donte-stallworth-nfl-football-foreign-policy-twitter-dui?page=1">interview</a> where he stood on the Redskins name controversy, Stallworth stalled for 330 words only to end up saying “I don’t know”). In 2009 he was charged with DUI manslaughter for striking a pedestrian with his Bentley Continental; he plea-bargained to a 30-day sentence, probation, and community service, and settled with the victim’s family out of court.</p>
<p>As for his transition from pro athlete to political pundit for the <em>HuffPost</em>, Stallworth, who <a href="https://twitter.com/DonteStallworth">describes</a> himself on Twitter as a “Leonardo da Vinci wanna-be that reveres Frederick Douglass Love books, sports, history &amp; politics Advocate for peace, truth &amp; equality 10 year NFL vet,” became a political junkie after 9/11. In an <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/01/donte-stallworth-nfl-football-foreign-policy-twitter-dui?page=1">interview</a> with <em>Mother Jones</em> magazine, Stallworth said he set out to understand “why these people are terrorizing us, and who are they?”</p>
<p>He disagreed with Bush’s assessment that “they hate us because of our freedoms.” Stallworth didn’t elaborate in the interview on why he thinks the jihadists <em>do</em> hate us; he only stated that his attitude toward foreign policy sprang out of researching “9/11, the Patriot Act, the FISA/warrantless wiretapping, Gitmo, kidnapping, extrajudicial killings, all that… What other countries,” he wondered, “have the capability to do this? And what kind of precedent are we setting with other countries when they have the capabilities that we have?”</p>
<p>As he dug into all this, Stallworth developed a reputation as a 9/11 Truther. “I don&#8217;t know how to say this nicely,” a friend <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/news/stallworth-cognizant-decisions-173700854--nfl.html">joked</a>, “but everything’s a conspiracy to him,” as evidenced in assertions like this on Twitter, where Stallworth spends a lot of time issuing forth 140-character sports and political commentary to his 152,000 followers:</p>
<blockquote><p>NO WAY 9/11 was carried out by ‘dying’ Bin Laden, 19 men who couldn’t fly a damn kite. STILL have NO EVIDENCE Osama was connected, like Iraq.</p>
<p>Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr @ ppl who actually believe a plane hit the pentagon on 9/11&#8230; hole woulda been ASTRONOMICALLY bigger, God bless lost lives.</p></blockquote>
<p>Asked about this, <em>HuffPost</em>’s Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim defended Stallworth:</p>
<blockquote><p>“That doesn’t represent how he thinks today. You know, that was five years ago, and people say dumb things, but that shouldn’t define him.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It needn’t define him, but it certainly should be taken into account if he’s expounding upon national security issues for a hugely popular website.</p>
<p>Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/huffington-post-hires-truther-to-cover-national-security-194868.html">points out</a> that Stallworth apparently held forth on trutherism as recently as late last year, but recently he tried to quell that controversy by claiming that, like Obama on gay marriage, he has evolved:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I no longer feel the way I did in that tweet 5 years ago&#8230; After a lot of reading and researching on it, my views changed&#8230; and that’s ok&#8230; Credit goes to James Bamford, whose great book disabused me of that stuff and showed what a disastrous intelligence failure 9/11 was.”</p></blockquote>
<p>(He is probably referring to Bamford’s Bush-bashing <em>A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America&#8217;s Intelligence Agencies</em>.) Just a couple of days ago, he <a href="https://twitter.com/DonteStallworth/status/508287494937673728">tweeted</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“For the record &amp; for the last time, I&#8217;m not a ‘9/11 truther.’ I believe the intel community failed us, as stated by respected media agencies.”</p></blockquote>
<p>[His political awakening actually mirrors <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/a-progressive%E2%80%99s-second-thoughts/">my own</a>, which began with 9/11 and my subsequent research into the Islamic threat. But unlike Stallworth and probably everyone else at <em>HuffPost</em>, I recognized who the real enemy is and why, and that led to my transformation to conservative and my rejection of the party that always seeks to blame America first.]</p>
<p>Speaking of patriotism, Stallworth claims in the <em>Mother Jones</em> interview that he loves our country and its history so much that his friends always point out a U.S. flag to him whenever they see one. But “a lot of people are blinded by their love for this country,” he said (while many are blinded by their progressive hostility toward it, I might add). “My biggest thing is I want people to understand that when there are hostilities between nations there’s always two sides.” This reeks suspiciously of the kind of moral equivalence that progressives love; sure there are two sides, but that doesn’t mean they are equally valid and defensible. “So I think that we do have a great country,” he ended, “but there’s a lot of things that we’re not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.”</p>
<p>And hiring qualified national security pundits seems to be another. How did Stallworth even show up on <em>HuffPost</em>’s radar to begin with? Grim <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/09/04/huffington-post-hires-ex-nfl-player-donte-stallworth/">said</a> that the athlete’s “LGBT work brought him to our attention and impressed us.” Stallworth has been a passionate supporter, for example, of St. Louis Rams draftee Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay player (who was recently cut from the team).</p>
<p>What else ultimately sold <em>HuffPost</em> on Stallworth? Grim <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/huffington-post-hires-truther-to-cover-national-security-194868.html">said</a> he “has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity and a passion for politics — the necessary qualities of a great journalist.” He left out another necessary quality: an Old School commitment to reporting the truth as opposed to the new journalist activism.</p>
<p>I have no problem with former athletes reinventing themselves. Athletes, particularly football players, whose career lifespans tend to run very short, have pretty much no choice but to create new careers for themselves. I also reject the dumb jock stereotype. But with Donté Stallworth, <em>Huffington Post </em>seems to have opted for a controversial, popular personality – passionate though he may be about politics – over journalists trained in the critical arena of national security, who might actually have lent the site some experience and credibility.</p>
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		<title>The War on Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/9781621571551_p0_v2_s260x420.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-204955" alt="9781621571551_p0_v2_s260x420" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/9781621571551_p0_v2_s260x420-231x350.jpg" width="231" height="350" /></a><em>&#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Football-Saving-Americas/dp/1621571556">The War on Football:</a></em><br />
<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Football-Saving-Americas/dp/1621571556"> Saving America&#8217;s Game</a>&#8220;</em><br />
<em>Daniel J. Flynn</em><br />
<em>Regnery Publishing</em><br />
<em>256 pages</em><br />
<em>Hardcover, $27.95</em></p>
<p>As the latest football season unfolds, a timely book by Daniel J. Flynn takes on the do-gooders who would relegate the sport to the ash heap of history. &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Football-Saving-Americas/dp/1621571556">The War on Football: Saving America&#8217;s Game</a>,&#8221; explores the history of the sport and debunks many of the myths surrounding its iconic characters. More importantly, Flynn tackles the oft-repeated misinformation about concussions and other health-related issues critics exploit in their attempts to convince Americans the game is far too violent. He also illuminates why the game remains a critical rite of passage in a nation seemingly bent on emasculating young men.</p>
<p>Flynn begins by shining the spot light on the latest crusade against the sport, noting how many of its uninformed critics compare it to smoking. He reveals the various efforts being undertaken by legislators and the medical community to put new restrictions on the game at the Pop Warner, middle school and high schools levels, as well as critics&#8217; calls for an outright ban. In the process, Flynn de-mythologizes Carlisle Indian School coach Glenn &#8220;Pop&#8221; Warner, revealing that Warner leaked fake injury information to the press, recruited athletes of dubious academic and amateur standing, and gambled on teams he coached.</p>
<p>Flynn then takes on the central argument of football&#8217;s critics, namely that the sport causes too many concussions. He begins with a look at women&#8217;s football, and notes that women&#8217;s sports activities<i> in general</i> have a higher concussion rate than men&#8217;s, yet no one suggests banning women from playing sports. And while football places number one on a list of sports that cause this particular injury, Flynn reveals that girls’ soccer and basketball, as well as ice hockey and boys&#8217; lacrosse, are not far behind.</p>
<p>The &#8220;vexing&#8221; nature of concussions themselves is also explored in &#8220;The War on Football.&#8221; What many do not realize is that the field of concussion research is rife with experts who directly profit from their own analyses, such as Mark Lovell and his ImPACT studies. The current science on concussions, however, is inconclusive because there is no test for the symptoms, only a post-event diagnosis. This reality has led a number of scientists and others to speculate about how many concussions go unreported. Flynn explains that such speculation further undermines the science surrounding the injury.</p>
<p>But the science doesn&#8217;t stop litigation. Flynn details the current class-action lawsuit filed by former NFL players, which involves about 4000 players. The two main defendants are the NFL and Riddell helmets, despite the reality that many of the plaintiffs never wore Riddell helmets or played in an NFL game. Flynn admits that some of the claims within the overall suit have merit, but notes that players were well aware of the nature of football when they agreed to play the game, and were amply compensated at the time. While such a lawsuit may not frighten the NFL, litigation on the college and high school levels may eventually make football &#8220;cost prohibitive&#8221; and easier to abolish as a result.</p>
<p>Lawsuits may be a modern albatross on the football industry, but contempt for the &#8220;savage&#8221; sport is nothing new. The first &#8220;Foot-Ball&#8221; game, a sport invented by Walter Camp who extrapolated it from English rugby, took place in 1869. Camp himself revealed that even back then there were laws passed &#8220;making it an offense to engage in the sport.&#8221; Yet the game became impossible to contain as it became a &#8220;civilized substitute for war&#8221; for the legions of young men returning from WWl. Flynn notes the reality that baseball was a deadlier sport back in that era, but never endured the existential crisis that has regularly attended football.</p>
<p>Both games have evolved into far safer enterprises than they once were, and leading the impetus for football reform was Teddy Roosevelt. In 1905, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (ICAA), which eventually became the more familiar National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), was formed to reinvent the game, which seemed on the verge of extinction.</p>
<p>Injuries played a large part in precipitating that potential demise. Yet Flynn puts football-related injuries in perspective, noting that several sports, including bicycling, hunting, swimming, skateboarding and horse racing produce more deaths than football. And while Flynn admits the distinction regarding the intent of hits in football, he turns the argument back at the critics, contending that non-intent has produced more fatalities, even as there is no mass movement to ban these other sports. He believes this is because far more attention is paid to football, despite the reality that a game averaging 25 deaths per season in the 1960s averages only four collision deaths a year today. Furthermore, dying from a football hit is less than a one-in-a-million occurrence.</p>
<p>So why the outrage? &#8220;Football isn&#8217;t less safe,” Flynn writes. “Americans are more squeamish.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is a squeamishness abetted by a media-inspired misinformation campaign. Flynn reveals the &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; regarding football players&#8217; shorter-than-average life expectancy is a complete fabrication, perpetrated by former Hall of Fame tackle Ron Mix, who reinvented himself as a workman&#8217;s compensation attorney specializing in injured athletes. It was amplified by former NFL lineman Len Teeuws, who became an insurance agent. Though neither man published a study, they inspired the government to do so. It turned the conventional wisdom on its head, revealing that football players lived longer, healthier lives than average Americans. Even the number of neurodegenerative causes of death, which did outpace the general population, were small: out of 334 deaths within and pool of 3,449 players examined, only 17 were attributable to the condition. Furthermore, Flynn notes that many of the highly publicized suicides and violent behavior committed by former players ignore other factors, such as heavy drinking and drug usage.</p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence notwithstanding, Flynn remains convinced the positives of football far outweigh the negatives. He explains how football builds character in ways that other sports can&#8217;t, due to its demanding physical requirements, the emotional connection to others it builds in teammates, and the sophisticated strategies that must be mastered to play the game as well as possible. &#8220;Football isn’t a game of the body,&#8221; Flynn contends. &#8220;Its a game of the soul.&#8221;</p>
<p>So why is the game currently under fire? &#8220;We don&#8217;t allow boys to be boys,&#8221; he explains, even as that failure leads to physically mature males prolonging adolescence in a culture that &#8220;no longer sees childhood as preparation for adult responsibilities.” He compares football to other cultural coming-of-age rituals that are far more dangerous, and notes that the overprotective nature of our culture makes football a necessity now more than ever. &#8220;We can abolish football,&#8221; he states, &#8220;But we can&#8217;t abolish nature.&#8221; It is nature that produces twenty times the amount of testosterone in young men than in young women, and the resulting angst and aggression can be channeled in ways that are &#8220;both maladaptive and adaptive,&#8221; he warns.</p>
<p>According to Flynn, football is also bigger than the sport itself. Rituals associated with the sport, including tailgate parties, college romances, and alumni reunions are irresistible to many Americans. The game has also played an integral part in breaking down racial barriers, and gives cities, such as Katrina-battered new Orleans, a sense of pride and hopefulness. It transcends political differences, and prepares men and women for the rigors of war. &#8220;Football, like capitalism or the First Amendment helps compose American identity,&#8221; Flynn concludes. &#8220;It is who we are.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the end of the book, Flynn warns that the war on football is perpetual, and that its critics fight for &#8220;unconditional surrender.&#8221; Yet he notes that the invaluable positives of the game produce Americans with character and integrity. &#8220;Lessons abound,&#8221; the author concludes. Millions of Americans currently agree: football is the nation&#8217;s most popular sport. If Daniel Flynn&#8217;s well-organized and highly persuasive argument resonates as it should, it will remain that way.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I posed a political question in the process and in the context of trying to help a friend and my audience understand the concept that people ask me about a lot: “Why are so many Jewish people liberal?” And a friend of mine — a good friend of mine, Norman Podhoretz — [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Earlier this week, I posed a political question in the process and in the context of trying to help a friend and my audience understand the concept that people ask me about a lot: “Why are so many Jewish people liberal?” And a friend of mine — a good friend of mine, Norman Podhoretz — has written a book, an excellent book to explain it. Mr. Podhoretz is himself Jewish. He is the husband of Midge Decter and the father of John Podhoretz, and I know all of them very well and have socialized with them on a number of occasions, and in the process of… Let me just read you this. Podhoretz has written a response to Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, who is demanding that I apologize for “borderline anti-Semitism.” Now, anybody who listens to this program even marginally knows that this program is and has consistently been one of the most outspoken supporters of the Jewish people and of Israel in particular.</p>
<p>And Mr. Foxman knows this as well. What I suspect is the usual thing that happened. Somebody took a few words that I said in a pretty long monologue, cut them up, and published them in a way to make it appear I said something that I didn’t say, and rather than check it out… And by now I would think anybody in the mainstream media or in any mainstream American endeavor, after 20 years of these types of attacks — me being taken out of context and every one of them being shown to be wrong, every one of these attacks being shown to be fallacious — I would think that by now some people would realize what’s going on. But I don’t think that they do. I think they want these attacks to be real. I think they want the out-of-context quotes to be real. It’s just like during this NFL controversy, when there were purely fabricated quotes of me that were plastered all over the American media: newspapers, websites, television.</p>
<p>The Reverend Jackson repeated them. They said that I supposedly supported slavery because it kept the streets safe at night and that I wanted a congressional medal given to the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King. And people knew that I didn’t say it but they wanted to believe I’d said it, because they would love to get rid of me. Folks, the left has never been angrier at me than they are this week because of what I myself said this week only yesterday. Back when Obama was inaugurated, even prior to him being inaugurated, everybody was inside the celebrity bubble. “Oh, we must not criticize our brand-new president. He’s so young and he’s so historical. This means so much to America. We must hope and we must pray that he succeeds.” Well, I didn’t join any of that. I didn’t want him to succeed. I don’t want socialism in this country. I do not want the government running car companies, the banks, the student loan program.</p>
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