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    NFL Free Agency 2018

    2018 NFL Free Agents (Spotrack) Sortable. Also links to NFL Teams Salary Cap Tracker 2018 NFL Free Agency Tracker (With PFF grades for 2017, snaps, age - PFF) PFF does each team's free agent analysis articles Top 100 Free Agents (position links at bottom) (Walter)
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    The Paradise Papers

    Offshore Trove Exposes Trump-Russia Links And Piggy Banks Of The Wealthiest 1 Percent (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) AN ICIJ INVESTIGATION PARADISE PAPERS: SECRETS OF THE GLOBAL ELITE (ICIJ) The Paradise Papers (The Guardian)
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    Local News

    Post any stories with local flavor you wish. Not too far from the geographical center of the 48 states (Lebanon, Ks) are Hastings (and Kearney), Nebraska. From the Hastings Star Gazette, whose sections include News, Sports, Life, Opinion, Obits, etc. Some articles: PHOTOS: Make Music Day...
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    Environmental Issues

    A while back, a poster commented that oil spill cleanups are the responsibility of the owner/operator in an exchange on DAPL. That’s true but brings up some interesting points and holes in the laws. The Oil Pollution Act (1990) states that parties that release hazardous materials and oil...
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    2016 What Ifs

    This may be opening a Pandora's box for all kinds of what ifs, but.... What if Central Michigan did not get an extra play and Oklahoma State won that game? They would have gone into Bedlam with an 11-1 record, ranked in the top 7 and been in the conversation for the Playoff.
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    Scholarship Numbers

    Since Oversigning is not really appropriate anymore, scholarship numbers seems is a more accurate name of a thread. Here are some other football sites that acccurately assess their schools numbers in a timely manner throughout the year. Feel free to post any information on any of these...
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    Travel

    Feel free to post any travel info to countries you have visited, likes or dislikes, recommendations for sights or experiences, observations, photos, links or anything else.
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    Tech

    For news, new gadgets, info, issues like privacy, etc. I'll start this off. Wall Street Journal, Tech section NY Times, Tech section CNET, All the cool new gadjects from CES, 2016 (From a post in another thread): How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last...
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    SEC Media Days

    SEC Media Days is a summer tent revival like no other SEC media days: Times, TV schedule, streaming info for football media days in Alabama (NCAA)
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    Olympics

    Congrats to Molly Huddle!! Women’s 5,000 Meters: Huddle Wins Her Second Event of the Trials Women’s 10,000 Meters: Huddle, Infeld, Hall Earn Spots for Rio Go Irish! Irish Fencing Boasts Five Olympians On Team USA
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    Civil Rights, Police, Justice, Federal Government

    This seems like a good thread to start. Here's a starter. Forced reforms, Mixed results Federal interventions at troubled police departments across the country drag on for years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. (Washington Post) Excerpt: Justice Department found police had...
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    Getting To Know Each Other Survey

    Tenth Anniversary Tenth Anniversary Since the end of this year will be the tenth anniversary of joining Irish Envy, I've been reflecting on the early years, long-time posters, and its evolution. I wanted to give a shout out to those posters who joined IE before me and continue to...
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    Congress

    Is this the worst Congress in memory? No bills passed on healthcare reform, tax reform, immigration, economic safeguards whittled away, balancing the budget.... Maybe I'm being extreme. I just read the letter of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on...
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    Religious Liberty

    Starting this one out: History as farce at the Alabama supreme court Liberals trying to 'purge godly men' like Roy Moore, Rep. Will Ainsworth says Alabama drag queen is Roy Moore nemesis
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    Issues of Principle

    For anything you want to contribue, comment or share. Daniel Berrigan, poet, peacemaker, dies at 94
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    Media Matters

    Bias? Undue Influence? Elite? Isolated? Ted Cruz yesterday: Cruz: "Media Will Say Trump Is The Nominee"; Trump is Media's "Chosen Republican Candidate" (Real Clear Politics) Cruz said the media executives have colluded to push Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, because Hillary...
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    Healthcare

    Any Congress faces the task addressing rising healthcare costs for federal expenditures and for individuals while providing appropriate access to the healthcare system efficiently. Prior to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), healthcare costs were rising at 6% or more per year threatening to...
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    Hard-Working Americans

    This might be an interesting topic. Any thoughts, stories, suggestions for our Presidential candidates/Congress? "Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why." JJ Go raibh maith agat.
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    Big 12 Discussion Thread

    TCU football loading up on track stars In 2015, his Senior year, Flowers posted a 10.27 in the 100, the nation's fastest.
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    Football player's stories

    The hurdles people overcome to play the game they love... Here's a couple. Feel free to post any you may know. A Champion at 20. A Graduate at 74. Bobby Bell, a Former Football Star, Earns a College Degree and Honors His Father "To this day, people call me a liar”: A campus rape victim’s...
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