With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.

“I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

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I am very concerned about the fact that Arlen Specter thinks this is any of his or the government’s business.

Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you’ll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state’s House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state’s Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi’s Council on Obesity.

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With morons like these, who needs John McCain to change the face of the GOP?

John McCain will apparently attend CPAC next week. This is a tremendous move in the right direction for his campaign in its efforts to get the conservative base behind him.

But this will not be the first time McCain has attended CPAC. In 1974, Ronald Reagan gave the first of his many CPAC addresses, which is probably one of the finest speeches he ever gave in public life. But most importantly, it began with this:

There are three men here tonight I am very proud to introduce. It was a year ago this coming February when this country had its spirits lifted as they have never been lifted in many years. This happened when planes began landing on American soil and in the Philippines, bringing back men who had lived with honor for many miserable years in North Vietnam prisons. Three of those men are here tonight, John McCain, Bill Lawrence and Ed Martin. It is an honor to be here tonight. I am proud that you asked me and I feel more than a little humble in the presence of this distinguished company.

If John McCain leads by reminding CPAC attendees of this, then he will have the crowd from the moment his speech begins.

This article came out early last year, but it bears reminding: Democrats Say McCain Nearly Abandoned GOP.

I’m not quoting any of it; read any or all of it as you please.

It does come down to a he said/she said situation, but the fact that there is enough substance to merit even writing an article like this about McCain in a respected newspaper is damning. This is the guy who is likely to be the Republican nominee for President? Spare me.