Bob Costas’ Political Football

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Dec
31
2012

Happy New Year, Such As It Is

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Englehart’s View by Bob Englehart

I’ve talked to people from all over the country and all over the world during the holiday season and I’ve come to this conclusion. Whatever we decide to do about guns and gun control is filled with pitfalls, so, pick your pitfalls.

Geneticists are studying the DNA of the Sandy Hook Elementary School killer to see if there’s anything they can find out about him on a molecular level. Maybe that’s ultimately the answer. I still say that a hundred years from now, doctors will take a newborn baby, extract his or her DNA, examine it for susceptibility to disease, tweak it, put it back and like magic, the kid will grow up free of the maladies that affect us today.

Maybe the scientists will be able to fix a broken spirit, a madness, a tendency toward violence. Even that is filled with pitfalls. Again, what pitfalls are you willing to live with?

Dec
24
2012

Christmas Gun Show Miracle

Sometimes a story is so bizarre you have make sure you’re not reading The Onion, the satirical newspaper that once convinced the Iranian news agency that Congress was selling corporate naming rights to the capitol dome. It’s a tricky world, and you have to check your sources to know whether to laugh or cry. Case in point: The other day [Read More]
Dec
5
2012

Bob Costas’ Political Football

In a tragedy that has affected a football team, a city, and more importantly a three-month-old little girl, politics has taken center stage where it should not be. Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend, the mother of his daughter, on Saturday morning then drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility and turned the gun on himself in front [Read More]