NFL Network: NFL 1972- America's game: 1972 Miami Dolphins

Source:NFL Network- Miami Dolphins FB Larry Czonka.

Source:The Daily Post 

"NFL America's Game Super Bowl 7 Champions 1972 Dolphins." 

Source:NFL Network- Miami Dolphins DT Manny Fernandez.

From David Stronach

What's the definition of perfect?  I guess it's someone or something that lacks weakness and doesn't make mistakes.  That's an impossible accomplishment, especially when we are talking about human beings. If we were perfect, what would be the point of living?  We've accomplished everything and therefore can't learn anything else because we are perfect.  I guess we could show the world what we know and spread our perfection around so to speak. Hey, look at me, I'm perfect, be like me.  This is all nonsense.

None of is perfect and I wouldn't have it any other way, because we learn whether we are intelligent by making mistakes. The 1972 Miami Dolphins were not perfect, but they did have a perfect record.  They played 17 games and won 17 and, when it comes to sports, that's the best you can do. But they didn't have a perfect team, they just made fewer mistakes then anyone else in the NFL in 1972 and had a perfect record.  They played the best as a team that season, so much better that they went undefeated, and they did this by being the best team.

They didn't have the best talent.  I would argue that the team they beat in the 1972 AFC Final, the Oakland Raider, had better talent and a better team even though they lost 2-3 games that year and the Dolphins lost none.  I would also argue that the Washington Redskins, the team they beat in Super Bowl 7, had better talent and a better team as well.  If their quarterback, Sonny Jurgenson, who's one of the best QB ever and in the Hall of Fame (a better QB than the Dolphins' QB Bob Griese, who's also in the Hall of Fame) had been healthy and played in that Super Bowl, I believe the Redskins would have won, but of course we'll never know.

The 1972 Miami Dolphins were exactly what a great team should look like. They understood what kind of team they had, the type of talent they had, and the type of players. They didn't win because of the overwhelming talent they had, not including their Head Coach Don Shula. 

The Dolphins had five Hall of Famers from all on offense, except for MLB Nick Bonoconti. QB Bob Griese, FB Larry Csonka, WR Paul Warfield, and OG Larry Little. They ran a Power Ball Control Offense that ran the ball about 70% of the time. Their No Name Defense was exactly that.  Most of the players on that defense weren't known outside South Florida very well until they won that Super Bowl.  Perhaps not that many people in South Florida were familiar with the No Name Defense, but they were all very good players, defensive tackle Manny Fernandez, middle linebacker Nick Bonoconti, safety Larry Anderson, and others. 

Head coach Don Shula knew what type of team he had in 1972, that they weren't going to blow teams away with their talent and had to beat teams as a team, run the ball well, and run the ball a lot, Bob Griese hitting key passes off of play action, don't turn the ball over, and play great defense, stuff the run, attack the QB, and get a few takeaways. 

The 1972 Dolphins, the team with the perfect record, won because Don Shula knew exactly what type of team he had, what type of system to have, and how to utilize his players to get their best performance and execution every week for all 17 weeks. And he had the players who understood that if they made 1972 about themselves rather than the team, they were going to fail and maybe even not make the playoffs. But together as a team, with every player and coach understanding their role the best that they could and playing their part, they would be champions.

The Federalist Society: 'Property Rights: The Forgotten Spark of the Arab Spring'

Source:The Federalist Society- holding an event about the Arab Spring, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

"The Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group hosted this panel on "Property Rights: The Forgotten Spark of the Arab Spring" on Saturday, November 12, 2011, during the 2011 National Lawyers Convention.

Environmental Law: Property Rights: The Forgotten Spark of the Arab Spring

10:45 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.

State Room - Overflow: Senate Room

--Mr. Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy

--Prof. Steven J. Eagle, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

--Prof. John D. Echeverria, Professor of Law and Acting Director Environmental Law Center, Vermont Law School

--Prof. Donald J. Kochan, Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law

--Moderator: Hon. Jerry E. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit... 

From The Federalist Society

Property rights are essential in a democracy, especially in a liberal democracy, because it's one way people can limit the power of government, because they have property and they can limit what government can do to them. 

In America government has to have permission under law and the U.S. Constitution to enter or take property from individuals. Without property rights the State would essentially own everything. Even the Communist Republic of Cuba has now recognized the need for property rights in a functioning society. 

Jeremy Arendt: Milton Friedman- Free To Choose: 'The Tyranny of Control (1980)'

Source:Jeremy Arendt- Donald Rumseld: former U.S. Representative (Republican, Illinois) and Secretary of Defense (President Gearld R. Ford) 

"Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by "approved" or "authorized." Friedman shows how "established" industries or methods, seek government protection or subsidization in their attempts to stop or limit product improvements which they don't control. Friedman visits India, Japan and U.S."

From Jeremy Arendt

If you look at the Federal Government in America and its size post-World War II, we've generally spent around 20% of our GDP on the public sector. Defense, law enforcement, foreign affairs, social welfare, etc. 

And then you add state and local governments, government total in America at all three levels have spent around 30-35 of our GDP on the public sector. 

And then you go to the Federal, or national government's in Europe, except for the United Kingdom, which basically has basically unitarian government without much if any provincial or local governments, they generally spend around 50-60% of their GDP on their public sectors. And thats just as their national level. 

So the the role of government has gotten bigger in America than it was before the Great Depression, but if you're someone who believes in individual freedom and freedom of choice, which I do, I still rather live in America, than anywhere else even in the developed world.  

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John Boehner: 'GOP Highlights American Energy Production & Infrastructure Jobs Bill'

Source:Speaker of the House John Boehner- and company talking about their jobs bill.

"At a press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) announced that House Republicans will soon unveil legislation -- the American Jobs & Infrastructure Act -- linking expanded American energy production to high-priority infrastructure projects." 

From John Boehner

Yesterday the House Republican Leadership introduced their first serious jobs bill in this Congress. Introducing an energy and infrastructure investment plan that has bipartisan support in the House. That would open more parts of the country to energy production including, oil production. And use the revenue thats collected from that through leases to pay for infrastructure investment. So we would be able to put more people to work in the oil and gas industry as well as construction workers in the construction industry. 

Now, I would expand this plan to include other energy sectors, natural Gas, electricity, nuclear power, solar, wind put everything on the table. Not pick winners and losers and use the lease revenue from these energy sectors, to pay for infrastructure investment in the short-term, but also create a National Infrastructure Bank to fund our infrastructure investment for the long-term, which would also help our manufacturing industry in the short and long-term as well. Because of the equipment that it would take to do all of this work. 

But this plan that the House GOP Leadership introduced Thursday, is a good first step. And something that should be considered by the Democratic Senate and White House. And at least House Republicans are finally taking the need for infrastructure investment in America seriously and even proposing their own plan. Perhaps they are hearing this from their constituents and perhaps even construction company's in their own House districts, that there's a lot of work to do here and we would like to be hired to do this work. 

Forbes Magazine: Jim Yong Kim- 'The Next Phase of Health Care Reform: Providing Low Cost, High Quality Medical Care'

Source:Forbes Magazine- Jim Yong Kim: President of Dartmouth College.

"To save costs, we need to fix the delivery system says Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim.  And he's got a plan to do just that." 

From Forbes Magazine

The 2010 Affordable Care Act wasn't about healthcare reform in general, but about health insurance expansion. And regulating the private health insurance industry with a Patients Bill of Rights. And these things will help bring down our healthcare costs with everybody contributing to their own healthcare costs. As well as some reforms in Medicare and some other reforms in Medicaid. Which were less positive because it made millions of more people eligible for Medicaid. But without paying for it leaving the bill to the states which they aren't going to like. 

So the first round of healthcare reform (as I call it) was about health insurance expansion and regulation. Not so much about bringing down our long term healthcare costs. And that gets to things like expanding healthcare, more hospitals and clinics, taking better care of ourselves as a country, so we don't have to consume as much healthcare in the future and only getting Healthcare that we actually need to stay healthy and survive. And discourage things that are more on the luxury side of healthcare, like certain plastic surgery's, massages, that sort of thing. 

The Federalist Society: 'A Federal Sunset Law'

Source:The Federalist Society- Professor William Eskridge: Yale Law School.

"In the years since the New Deal and the Great Society, a huge number of federal statutes have been enacted into law and have become permanent fixtures of American life.  Repealing these statutes is politically impossible because one needs a majority of the House of Representatives, sixty votes in the Senate, and the President's signature to repeal a law.  The cumbersome mechanisms of bicameralism, the Senate filibuster, and the President's veto, which were meant to ensure limited government, now serve the wholly different purpose of entrenching big government by making federal laws immortal.  This panel will consider whether Congress should pass a general federal sunset law that would require that most federal statutes sunset after ten or twenty years unless they are re-enacted by the two Houses of Congress together with the President.  Arguably, such a law would return us to the Framers' vision where small government was entrenched instead of big government being entrenched.  Many states have adopted sunset laws, and maybe now it is time for the federal government to follow their good example.  Thomas Jefferson once proposed that even the Constitution itself should sunset every 20 years -- an idea that James Madison wisely rejected.  But even if the Constitution ought not to sunset and even if a few landmark laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ought not to sunset, surely most federal laws ought to be periodically in need of being reenacted.  This panel will examine that question.This panel was featured as Showcase Panel IV at the 2011 National Lawyers Convention on November 12, 2011." 

From The Federalist Society

Our Founding Fathers (our Founding Liberals) deliberately designed a governmental system and Federal Government to make it difficult for them to pass laws. And more difficult to make the Federal Government more powerful and intrusive, with things like the the three co-equal branches, executive, that carries out laws and can propose them. 

Congress that writes laws and oversees the other two branches including themselves. The Judicial Branch that obviously decides cases in the criminal and civil justice system. And sometimes passes on cases as well as ruling on the constitutionality of laws that the executive and legislative passes. And of course forcing the executive and legislative branches to work together to pass new laws. 

This is what checks and balances are about to make it difficult to pass laws and even harder to pass laws. Because even if one party controls both the White House and Congress, if the opposition party has enough Senate seats, they can block legislation that the Senate majority party is trying to pass. And even if one party controls both the Administration and Congress, to amend our Constitution, that takes a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress, as well as 67 states to pass and amend the Constitution. 

James Michi: 'Glenn Beck-Ben Franklin Health Care'

Source:James Michi- Glenn Beck talking about Ben Franklin.

"Ben Franklin and Health care was not ever around government it was all private. its unconstitutional in the eyes of our founding fathers! gov must get out of health care  NOW!" 

From James Michi

Glen Beck using Ben Franklin to make his case that health care reform at least at the Federal level is unconstitutional, by saying that Ben Franklin's vision of health care was to raise private money to build hospitals. And apparently thats all it takes to give people more health care in America. And that government at least not the Federal Government has no role in it. Is interesting but not accurate. 

Another thing that Glen Beck uses to make his case is the U.S. Constitution and says that no where in the U.S. Constitution does it give the Federal Government authority in health care. Not to expand health insurance or expand health care by financing through taxes, community health centers, and other infrastructure, which were part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. 

What Mr. Beck doesn't mention is the Commerce Clause and the Welfare Clause, which clearly gives the Federal Government the authority to regulate interstate commerce, which health care clearly is. So that means the Federal Government can regulate both hospitals and health insurers. 

The Welfare Clause gives the Federal Government the authority to look after the welfare of its citizens. Which means things like Unemployment Insurance and Medicaid are constitutional, to help people to are out-of-work, get by while they are looking for another job, health insurance for people who can't afford it who live in poverty. 

I'm not making these points as someone who''s a believer in Big Government, because I'm not. Just to say that just because you disagree with something, doesn't mean exactly its unconstitutional, it just might be a bad idea instead. I don't disagree with aspects of the New Deal and Great Society, because I believe they are unconstitutional, but I disagree with how they were set up and managed.