Security at this years annual Super Bowl games around the Levi Stadium in California will resemble a war zone. Patrolling F-15 warplanes, tanker planes, police sharpshooters, bomb-sniffing dogs, metal detectors, helicopters, and a no-fly zone imposed in San Fransisco are just a handful of measures authorities are taking to prevent a terrorist attack from taking place.
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The departure of Rand from the presidential race has left the hawks gloating. Non-interventionism is dead, the Ron Paul Movement is over, we’re all neocons now, they crow. Let’s just see about that!
Angela Merkel has delivered President Vladimir Putin an extraordinary, strongly worded warning: ‘You are making a big mistake going rogue from the New World Order – come into the fold before it’s too late.’ Merkel is getting ‘more and more exasperated’ with the ‘reckless behaviour’ of President Putin, to the point where she felt it necessary to instruct Rudiger von Fritsch, the German Ambassador to the Russian Federation, to pass on her strongly worded threat. It is understood Putin prefers not to take direct personal telephone calls from Merkel, hence her use of von Fritsch as messenger.
Benjamin Morris at FiveThirtyEight:
Thus, our best (and perhaps slightly conservative) estimate is that the Packers cost themselves about 7.9 percent of a win by kicking rather than going for two, and this whole thing could have been avoided if NFL coaches took the time to sit down and learn some basic percentages….
Another year, another year with NFL coaches not doing their jobs and not being taken to task for it. By now, coaches have no excuse for not having mastered basic decisions like these.