thing. the nfl players are at it again taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the national anthem. numerous players wanted to show outrage something most of them are unable to define. they make a fortune doing what they love. that was friday. they know exactly why they re taking a knee. colin kaepernick hasn t worked since he s been black baballed the nfl. it would do the country a great service one if he would stop tweeting about that and two truly find out what the players are protesting and again, the last part of that tweet, be happy, be cool. a football game that fans are paying so much money to watch and enjoy is no place to protest. you can read the rest of that yourself, but i want to make one thing clear. i don t know if many people realize or understand. when colin kaepernick started protesting at the nfl games, he originally sat on the bench out. sat out the national anthem until another then nfl player
who was also a veteran wrote an open letter to him.
not. but this much we now know to be true it s better with a democrat. the economy, that is. so says two economists at princeton university. alan blinder and mark watson. now, these are two of the top economists in the country. and in july they released a paper entitled presidents and the u.s. economy: an economic exploration. maybe the title doesn t scream 63-page summer beach read material, but nerdland rejoice because we have the highlights. among them, the u.s. economy has grown faster and scored higher on many other macro economic metrics when the president of the united states is a democrat rather than a republican. the members tell the tale. from 1947 to 2012, the economy grew at an average annual rate of 4.35 with a democrat in the oval office and 2.54 with a republican. whereas we can get into deficit spending versus supply side economics, stimulus versus austerity, social safety net versus wall street coddling, it turns out it may be just better to be lucky, you
illegal chokehold, the fact that there was that it was the cause of death and the medical examiner says, therefore, homicide. that, in and of itself, is probable cause for an arrest. [ applause ] the district attorney needs to even say i m going to move forward and arrest or i m going to defer to the federal government, but you cannot have the facts and not address the facts. that s where we are. then you go on if the federal government takes it or the prosecutor does to a grand jury. but all we are interested in is justice. don t do us no favors, but don t do us any way different than anyone else that probable cause has been established. [ applause ] now there are two issues here. i want to be real clear. there s the criminal justice issue, justice for eric garner. justice for eric garner s family, friends, loved ones, and then there s the issue of policing to make sure this doesn t happen again. what the media is trying to do is run one past the other. i want to be real c
Egyptian champion Nour el-Sherbini, the world's current number one in women's squash, has made a new global achievement after breaking the record set by Australian Michelle Martin.