Defending football’s most controversial play, Christopher Jacobs in The Federalist argues the NFL should reject calls to ban the “tush-push” on safety grounds. The play, in which running backs shove their quarterback from behind to gain a crucial yard or two, “resulted in exactly zero injuries last season.” As Jacobs points out, the more likely reason for the proposed ban is simple envy, as the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles are masters of the move.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
