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2011 Chrysler 200 Review

The Good

A smooth ride, stout V6 and slightly upscale interior make for a great value in the 2011 Chrysler 200.

The Bad

A lack of both interior space and exterior style keep the 2011 Chrysler 200 from matching its rivals.

The CarGurus View

It’s not that Chrysler's 200 is a bad car, it’s just not a great car, and ten years ago, even five years ago, it would’ve been a good car – if you could get past the boring styling. As it stands, the 200 simply brings the Sebring up to where it should have been years ago, and that’s just not good enough for today. Still, with the V6 it’s a fine choice for a midsize, especially for the price.

At a Glance

It’s still a Sebring. Sure, Chrysler will tell you different, and beg you to forget about that loathsome entry into its vehicular timeline, but at its heart the “new” Chrysler 200 is nothing more than a massaged Sebring.

That’s not to say the car is no good. Truly, the Chrysler 200 is in a different league than the Sebring, but it’s still playing the same boring game. Coming in four trim levels – LX, Touring, Limited and S – in sedan and convertible form, the 200 has a new skin, a vastly improved interior and several suspension updates. The car looks, feels and drives different than the Sebring – although whether or not these are all improvements is up to you. However, the addition of a new V6 is a benefit no matter who you talk to, offering more power and better efficiency than the outgoing V6 lump.

2011 Chrysler 200

That said, the V6 is not the only powerplant you have to work with. In fact, only the S and Limited convertible trims get the V6 as a standard feature, and only the Limited and Touring sedan trims get it as an option. Otherwise you’ll be dealing with the 173-hp, 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder GEMA engine that we’ve seen in so many Chrysler applications before – including the Sebring. You know it as the “World Engine.” Aluminum block design is from Hyundai and features cast iron cylinder liners for durability. Variable valve timing is also utilized here for efficiency. LX trims are set to be utilized as fleet vehicles and get a 4-speed automatic transmission that should’ve been left in the 20th-century where it was designed. It’ll return 21/30 mpg and thankfully won’t be something you’ll encounter unless you’re looking to rent. All other trims fitted with the 2.4 get a 6-speed automatic that unfortunately doesn’t do much for efficiency. 20/31 is the best it’ll do, so don’t expect to save much at the pump.

V6 power is one of the only things that actually sets the 200 apart, and the 283 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque you get with the 3.6-liter V6 actually make the 200 one of the most powerful entrants in its class. It’s enough to shoot you to 60 in about 6.5 seconds, and the car will do a quarter mile in under 15, but you’ll also get a good amount of torque steer with that. The real difficulty is in the 6-speed tranny, which tries to hold onto higher gears longer than necessary in order to maximize efficiency, here rated at 19/29. Good for the highway, bad for the track. But you’re not taking the 200 to the track.

Ride & Handling

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And that’s a good thing, as the 200 just doesn’t belong on the track. Ride height has been dropped overall, a half-inch up front and a quarter in back, and the track has been widened as well. Stiffer springs, thicker anti-roll bars and beefier control-arm bushings are complemented by an increased steering rate, but all of this adds up to nothing more than an improvement on the Sebring’s dismal previous performance.

It’s a large improvement, but it’s still just bringing the 200 up to where the Sebring should have been years ago. It won’t inspire you to toss the 200 into any corners, nor to carve any canyon roads, but it’s still a completely enjoyable experience, helped immensely by the best part of the 200 – the interior.

Cabin & Comfort

2011 Chrysler 200

While indisputably the weakest part of the Sebring, and most Chrysler products, the interior of the 200 bears little resemblance to its ill-reputed forbear. Gone are the vast expanses of hard plastics and cavernous gaps, and likewise gone are the roaring decibels of unwanted noise. Thanks to reconfigured engine mounts that reduce vibration transmission, additional sound insulation and “sound-isolating glass,” the interior noise of the 200 is half that of the Sebring, or so claims Chrysler. Whether or not the "half" boast is true, the difference is noticeable and makes the ride a much more pleasant experience.

Unfortunately, since this is still a Sebring, you’ll still get the internal dimensions of the Sebring. This means the typical lack of headroom front and back, especially if you get the optional sunroof, and the same lack of shoulder space we enjoyed with the Sebring. You’ll also remember the lack of rearward visibility, here made worse thanks to the even greater suspension slope. With no rear-view camera, a feature fast becoming expected in this segment, it can get frustrating quite quickly. To be fair, the space issues have a lot to do with the fact that the Sebri … ahem … the 200 is still sporting the same old midsize dimensions, while most of its competitors have grown substantially over the years. But that doesn’t change the fact that you’ll feel cramped, especially in the back. There you’ll find a lack of head- and legroom, as well as the expected lack of shoulder space. There’s also a hump in the middle of the floor, a curious find in a FWD car.

And if you needed even more evidence that this truly is a Sebring, look to the switchgear. That’s right, it’s carryover equipment. It looked cheap and felt terrible in the Sebring, and it’s the same story here. Well done, Chrysler.

2011 Chrysler 200

While the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has yet to release crash-test results for the 200, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named the 2011 Chrysler 200 as one of its Top Safety Picks. Regardless of trim, the 200 comes standard with traction and stability control, six airbags, 4-wheel antilock discs, a tire-pressure monitor and front-seat active head restraints.

What Owners Think

Improvements all around mean lots of praise for the Chrysler 200, although its boring styling has had a lackluster response at best, with many noticing the Hyundai similarities in more than just the engine. While cramped, the interior has been very well received, especially the metal trim and plentiful soft-touch surfaces, but the recycled switchgear is a huge disappointment. The overall feel of the car has been mentioned by owners frequently, described as being improved significantly, especially with regard to bump and noise isolation. The new V6 has been praised as quite fast, but the smaller 4-cylinder engine lacks the power to climb or pass effectively.

A CarGurus contributor since 2008, Michael started his career writing about cars with the SCCA - winning awards during his time as editor of Top End magazine. Since then, his journalistic travels have taken him from NY to Boston to CA, completing a cross-country tour on a restored vintage Suzuki. While his preference is for fine German automobiles - and the extra leg room they so often afford - his first automobile memories center around impromptu Mustang vs. Corvette races down the local highway, in the backseat of his father's latest acquisition.

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Carl Davis' Biography

I was born in New York in 1936.  Pre-birth, my mother went to a lot of concerts and my reaction was quite passionate!  After, she played piano and I imitated her.  My first lessons were at 7.  I sacked my first teacher when, after seeing Disney’s Fantasia, I insisted on studying Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and he refused.  I kept playing though, driven by curiosity – pop to Parsifal.  We had good public libraries in Brooklyn with fairly comprehensive music sections and I devoured scores. My mission was to be able to sight-read and sing operas, text and all.  I went on to orchestral scores, helped by New York’s two classical music radio stations.  I was equally attracted by dance.  After all, New York was home to American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe, The New York City Centre Ballet and Martha Graham.

In my teens I widened my circle with singers and musicians.  There were opera workshops, choirs, chamber music and Leider to play.  My first professional engagements were at Tanglewood, touring with the Robert Shaw Chorale and The New York City Opera and  at 18, composition.  A choice had to be made and I chose composition and London.

Helped by Diversions, a revue written at college, that had won Off-Broadway prizes, my colleague, Steven Vinaver, who had joined me in London, the revue Twists was produced at the Edinburgh Festival and then the Arts Theatre in the West End.  An encouraging review from Richard Buckle led to my first radio work and television.  There were strong collaborators:  Jack Gold, Ronald Eyre and Patrick Garland.  The breakthrough came in 1969 with Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On.  Jonathan Miller took me to The National Theatre and Ron to the RSC. A collaboration with John Wells produced three full length musicals for stage:  Alice in Wonderland, Peace (Aristophenes) and The Projector for Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop.  There I met my future wife, Jean Boht and began a family: two daughters, Hannah and Jessie and currently 3 grandchildren.

In the 1970’s, Jeremy Isaacs commissioned The World at War TV Series and the BBC commissioned scores for classic serials, including:  The Snow Goose, Our Mutual Friend and The Mayor of Casterbridge.  The decade ended working with Producer, David Gill and film-maker and historian, Kevin Brownlow on the 13 Part Series Hollywood.  In 1980 this led to a landmark performance with orchestra of Kevin Brownlow’s restoration of the 5 hour epic Napoleon:  live cinema was re-born.  Channel 4 continued this development with a chain of restorations of the major silent films featuring Garbo, Gish, Fairbanks and the three great clowns:  Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, as well as epics like Ben Hur and Intolerance.  Orchestras were now keen to mount these films and I fancied myself a conductor climaxing in an 8 year run in a series of popular concerts in Big Top on The King’s Dock in Liverpool! This helped me develop a unique performance style involving costumes and a rapport with my audience.

The 1990’s opened with a collaboration with Paul McCartney: The Liverpool Oratorio, and then there was ballet.  First, Gillian Lynne’s A Simple Man for The BBC’s Omnibus and Northern Ballet Theatre.  Then, A Picture of Dorian Grey for The Sadler’s Wells ballet, choreographed by Derek Deane, followed by Fire and Ice, a television ballet for LWT for Torvill and Dean.  The Millenium brought forth A Christmas Carol for NBT; Aladdin for Scottish Ballet and an Alice in Wonderland ballet, again for Derek(now Artistic Director of The English National Ballet).  A new collaboration began with choreographer David Bintley when I was invited to compose a new score for his Cyrano ballet.  This was followed by a revival of Aladdin with new choreography by David Bintley for The National Ballet of Japan.  Recently, created was a ballet based on The Lady of the Camellias for the Croatian National Ballet with choreography by Derek Deane.

As we moved into the new century, my older daughter Hannah and her husband Dave began to produce, direct, write and act in feature films involving Jean and myself (Jean, in the mid-1980’s had triumphed in the role of Mrs Boswell in Carl’s Lane’s Bread and is now a major star).  We all participated in helping make their two feature films – Mothers and Daughters and The Understudy.  Hannah and Dave are now in Hollywood, further developing their careers.  Jessie, after a phenomenal start in Television Production, produced 3 fabulous grandchildren and is now helping the further development of Threefold Music.  Hitting 70 running, Jean and I together with record executive Charles Padley, formed the Carl Davis Collection with the aim of continuing the flow.

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My experiences with blog communities for SEO

For a couple of years now I’ve been playing around social bookmarking sites, blog communities and other widget type sites like Blogrush, and for almost as long I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts about them. Well, at long last, here it is.

Technorati and SEO
I started with Technorati like most bloggers do, I even have all of my tags set to the Technorati standard so they get read properly by the Technorati spider, and it wasn’t until I did this that I noticed any traffic from Technorati. I’m one of the fortunate few who use Serendipity as my blog software so I have a plugin that automatically converts my tags into the format they use, and this really is absolutely necessary if you hope to get any serious traffic.

Technorati users seem to work almost exclusively on tag searches. Out of interest, almost all traffic I get is to entries with descriptive titles, and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the description or first paragraph so if you want Technorati traffic, use tags and write good entry titles.

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I’ve also tried Digg and which can be great sites for gaining backlinks and traffic but need to used wisely. Both of my profiles are examples of how not to use these sites if you want to be successful. Let me tell you why, I haven’t really used their services for anything other than a half hearted attempt at self promotion, and if I was serious about using them I’d be digging or bookmarking worthy sites within my keyword niche as well as a few of my own entries. In terms of traffic, I get nothing from either of these sites but I’m going to change the way I use them both and try to improve that.Get Stumbled
Stumbleupon is a service I use for fun, I won’t link to my username there since it has nothing to do with this blog, so of course I haven’t been able to generate any traffic from SU on my own. I have however had entries that were stumbled by other readers, some of which have been spectacularly successful for generating traffic.

However, looking at the stats for these times, very few of these people visit other pages, the majority don’t seem to stay very long, which kinda suggests if the info isn’t compelling they won’t even bother reading below the fold. This is useful information for anyone hoping to get good results from Stumbelupon. My most successful entry has been the 4 SEO tips for bloggers which I think works so well because the 4 pointers are introduced by a bold headline. Other SEO experts have mentioned that lists work really well with SU.

Blogrush is a dud
For several months I had a blogrush widget on this site, and honestly the only value I got out of it was using the widget on my own site to find other blogs I could make comments on, I don’t think I generated any traffic to my site using the widget, and the time delays on accessing the blogrush network were intolerable, with page rendering slowing down by as much 10 seconds or more at times. If anyone else has had success with blogrush I’d love to learn how since the concept seems so attractive.

MyBlogLog is a great way to make new friends
MyBlogLog is wonderful, I love their widget, although traffic is still small but in fairness to them you really need to visit a lot of other sites that have the mybloglog widget to generate enough views of your profile to in turn generate the traffic. Tags are also really important in the MyBlogLog world but I’ve found that the tags I’ve used just don’t work for me, so this is an appeal to my readers, please visit my profile and tag my site.

As for friendships, so often your site readers are anonymous, all you can tell from your stats is the country of origin and which pages they view, and if you’re interested, some of the details of their PC like screen size etc. Not useful if you want to connect with your readers. But by visiting a reader’s profile page on MyBlogLog you can send them a message, visit their own site and really connect with why they visited your site. I’ve developed a few nice online friendships from this, my latest being Jillian, a lady from California who has some weird ideas for blog entry titles.

Blogcatalog is slow but gives good traffic
Another service I like is blogcatalog which is a directory of blogs but they also have a widget similar to MyBlogLog. Most of my readers don’t have a blogcatalog profile so the widget shows people who visited this site as much as 8months ago, but the directory generates good traffic, at least one visitor per day, most of which is highly targeted at my keywords. Despite the fact they’ve been around for a long time and still seem to have such a small member base I’m keeping an eye on Blogcatalog. I think they have potential.

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Love was born Langston Santisima and grew up as a military brat; raised in San Diego and Newark,New Jersey, because of his father’s Navy career. Love got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut in an Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut Bebe’s Kids had him providing the voice of comedian Robin Harris, who died before production began on the film; Love offered a close vocal impression of Harris. He then had a role in The Meteor Manstarring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent ‘Hood.

He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug dealer Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday. Follow-up films have included Elf, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, Tourque, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild.Love also guests on Ludacris’ Freaky Thangs from the album Word of Mouf. In 2001, he cameos as a bus driver, in the music video for Lil Jon & The East Side Boys’s Put Yo Hood Up. Love also starred in 3 Strikes. Love co-starred in the 2009 film Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. In 2012, Love plays the role of Stringer Bell in the satirical trailer for “The Wire: The Musical.”

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Dolmen Creative
07-07-2010, 05:48 PM
OK, this is horribly off topic. While cruising this forum, the eldest menhir gremlin asked, "is there any word in the English language that rhymes with the word 'orange'?" :?:

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07-07-2010, 06:40 PM
This is worth a few chuckles - linky-linky (http://www.skorks.com/2008/10/here-are-some-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/)

07-08-2010, 03:54 AM
hehe... funny guy... reminds me of the book Douglas Adams wrote with "silly" words "The meaning of Liff"

07-08-2010, 04:39 AM
@SG: Indeed it is! :D

From the same blog. (http://www.skorks.com/2009/08/the-anatomy-of-a-rhyme-and-what-really-rhymes-with-orange/)

07-08-2010, 08:12 AM
A clip from QI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C8-Y8FGbM), my absolute favorite quiz show, hosted by Stephen Fry.

Dolmen Creative
07-08-2010, 10:52 AM
It's nice to see that there are others here with our sense of humor.

07-08-2010, 01:35 PM
Its easy to find rhymes for orange if one thinks musically. The word boring can rhyme with orange if you say it with the right accents as part of a song.

I was a-walkin' through da mall,
an' I saw a perfect orange.
I a-tried to make a song,
but this song is pretty borin'.

In this case it rhymes because the middle part of the words "oran/orin" sounds the same.

Not so difficult. Its only "perfect" rhymes that are a problem, because there are so few in the English language for 'orange', all of which are hard to fit into any sensible rhyme. But most rhymes, ie. the ones used in music and folk culture, are not about perfect rhymes.

07-08-2010, 01:39 PM
A very tenous connection, but this is one my favourite humorous small rhymes:

Celia Celia
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on

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Given that I made my first post over in the map gallery, I suppose I should really introduce myself.

I'm an old gamer who at one time wrote for Iron Crown Enterprises (20 years ago). I recently returned to my home town where I have gotten back together with my gaming buddies from back in the day. We picked up a game of 4th Edition D&D on a lark, and now the old group is back at it. I decided that I wanted to do a bit more than what the existing maps were providing for me, so I bit the bullet and picked up campaign cartographer... and in the process discovered that there was a symbol set in the 2008 annual from Pete Fenlon. Back when I wrote for ICE, I had the privilege of Pete putting things on the middle earth super-map that I had named. I even got a chance to see his handiwork in person... It seemed a logical fit to try to do the Nentir Vale in Pete Fenlon's style. You can find the essentially finished map here:

Anyway, I'm just getting started... but this was a fun first attempt, and I'd love any feedback anyone might have.

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Hi, I'm a current writer for the new I.C.E. (which has kept me too busy to map recently by eating away my spare time), working on the new edition of Rolemaster (currently in open beta test if you weren't aware).

What did you write?

10-25-2012, 08:39 AM
For Middle-earth, I wrote Ghosts of the Southern Anduin, Rogues of the Borderlands, Hazards of the Harad Wood, and was a primary co-author of Gorgoroth. I wrote Disaster on Adanis III for Space Master and Islands of the Oracle for Shadow World. The latter was just recently re-released on rpgnow. I've been aware that Rolemaster is in a new playtest mode. I've not had the chance to look at it yet, but I plan to very soon. :)

10-25-2012, 01:12 PM
Welcome !! That's a pretty nice first map. :)

10-26-2012, 04:37 PM
Welcome to the Guild Agatheron! Nice map that is.

10-26-2012, 08:50 PM
Thanks for the welcome. I think a better gauge of my map making might be in the next few maps that I do. The Nentir Vale one I was working with an existing world map that I wanted to do in Pete Fenlon's style. Up next in this style will be moving beyond the Nentir Vale into areas which are less well defined than the original map I was working with. I'm also going to be doing some semi-regional maps using the city designer. The group I am playing D&D with are going to be going into an adventure where they will be involved in a small scale battle. Knowing this group, they are going to want a larger semi-regional tactical map than what is provided. I figure that this will be my next project, and a way to learn city designer.


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    In this case, it is recommended to include another special building phase after player 5 or 6 has finished his turn, so that the players can use the resources they just have received. Otherwise, the last player to take a turn is at a disadvantage, because no one will trade with him any more. The order in which the players take their turns would have too much bearing on the outcome of the game, because during the last round the number of trades performed would diminish player by player – after all, why should a player who is no longer allowed to build keep on trading?
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Priest and martyr, b. in the Diocese of St. Asaph, Wales, date unknown; d. in London, 6 May 1590. Bred an Anglican, he was received into the Church at the English College, Reims, 1587; he was ordained priest in 1588, and went to England in the same year. In 1590 he was arrested by a priest-catcher, who pretended to be a Catholic, in a shop in Fleet Street. He was imprisoned in the Tower and brutally tortured by Topcliffe, finally admitting he was a priest and had been an Anglican. These admissions were used against him at his trial, but he made a skillful and learned defense, pleading that a confession elicited under torture was not legally sufficient to ensure a conviction. The court complimented him on his courageous bearing, but of course he was convicted of high treason as a priest coming into England. On the same day he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, opposite the grocer's shop where he had been captured, in Fleet Street near the Conduit. On the same day there suffered Anthony Middleton, priest and martyr, born probably at Middleton-Tyas, Yorkshire, date unknown, son of Ambrose Middleton of Barnard Castle, Durham, and Cecil, daughter of Anthony Crackenthorpe of Howgill Castle, Westmoreland. He entered the English College at Reims 9 Jan., 1582; was ordained 30 May 1586, and went to England in the same year. His work lay in London and the neighbourhood and he laboured very successfully; he was captured at a house in Clerkenwell (London) by the same artifice which was practiced on Father Jones. On the ladder he said: "I call God to witness I die merely for the Catholic Faith, and for being a priest of the true Religion"; and someone present called out, "Sir, you have spoken very well". The martyr was cut down and disemboweled while yet alive.

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According to a release from the Holy See, the pact “comes in the wake of the accord between the two countries concluded in 2002, and creates a juridical framework for the fiscal treatment of ecclesiastical institutions recognized as non-profit juridical entities.”  Particularly, “it regulates the fiscal status of Catholic Church organizations in Albania, the economic administration of such structures, and the contributory- insurance scheme for the non-Albanian religious and lay personnel who serve in them."

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Lawsuit claims California college threatened to expel students who prayed

.- Two students filed a federal lawsuit this past Monday against the publicly-funded College of Alameda alleging that school officials at the California school threatened to expel them for praying.

The events prompting the lawsuit took place in December, 2007, a press release from the Pacific Justice Institute reports.

That month, student Kandy Kyriacou visited an instructor to give her a Christmas gift. Kyriacou found the instructor alone in her shared office. When the instructor indicated she was ill, Kyriacou offered to pray for her.

The instructor bowed her head and Kyriacou began to pray. They were then interrupted by another faculty member, Derek Piazza, who entered the room and said “You can’t be doing that here!”

Kyriacou left to join her friend and fellow student Ojoma Omaga. Piazza followed Kyriacou and repeated his rebuke. The students related that they were surprised by his intimidating behavior.

Three days before Christmas, both students received letters notifying them of the college’s retroactive “intent to suspend” them. While school policy requires such letters to state factual bases for the charges, the letter only vaguely accused the students of “disruptive or insulting behavior, willful disobedience . . . persistent abuse of college employees.”

An administrative hearing reportedly found Kyriacou’s prayer worthy of discipline and threatened suspension or expulsion for further infractions.

The students turned to the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) for assistance. PJI attorneys attempted to resolve the situation through demand letters, but the college did not respond.

PJI local affiliate attorneys Steven N. H. Wood and Christopher Schweickert made a final demand that college officials rescind disciplinary letters and acknowledge the students’ right to pray, but the college refused. On Monday, Wood, Schweickert, and PJI staff attorneys filed a federal lawsuit.

"It's outrageous," PJI President Brad Dacus stated. "Since when does praying for a sick teacher to get well - with her consent - earn a suspension? This is not just a constitutional violation; it is a complete lack of common sense. These students were not looking for a fight, but since the school to this day insists that it can expel them if they pray again, we will have to resolve it in federal court."

CNA spoke with Dacus in a Friday interview. Dacus said there had been no further progress on the case since the Monday filing.

“We’re starting the long litigation process,” he said.

“Defending the rights of students to pray in public places or in colleges or universities is the most fundamental protection of the free exercise of religion that we can imagine.

“These student’s rights were clearly violated, and they must be vindicated in the court of law,” Dacus told CNA.

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How helpful is it to the GOP to have its chairman say the party’s “credibility snapped” while in power and it became “just another party of Big Government?”

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If GOP chairman Michael Steele means it, it’s very helpful for him to say that the party’s “credibility snapped” while in power and it became “just another party of Big Government?”  You first have to recognize a problem if you want to solve it.

For better or worse, we’ve had two major parties for most of our history, and that’s not likely to change any time soon.  At least since the New Deal, the Democratic Party has been the party of government, especially over economic affairs.  By contrast, since the Goldwater revolution of 1964, the Republican Party has claimed to be the party of individual liberty and limited government, although that claim was often undermined by calls for restricting certain personal liberties, and the party was slow, as were parts of the Democratic Party, in supporting the civil rights movement.  But broadly speaking, in our recent history the two parties have been distinguished, nominally, by their different conceptions of the proper role of government.

At no time was that contrast more sharply drawn than during the Reagan administration.  Yet even then there were internal struggles between the Reagan people and the Bush people.  Recall that when Bush ‘41 became president, he called for a “kinder and gentler nation,” which was a slap at Reagan’s limited government principles.  And eventually, of course, he broke his “no new taxes” pledge.

After Bush lost the presidency, the Gingrich “Contract with America,” leading to the Republican take-over of Congress for the first time in 40 years, was supposed to return the party to a principled, limited government path.  It did so briefly, in those heady days of 1995, but by the end of the year the siren song of government power was calling and the party started its slow slide, at the end of which it was barely distinguishable from the Democratic Party.

Thus, it was no accident that in 2000 the party selected as its standard-bearer George W. Bush, who had been utterly absent from the intellectual ferment of the Goldwater-Reagan years.  Not unlike his father, Bush ‘43 stood for “compassionate conservatism,” a slogan ripe with promise for government programs.  And the Republican Congress, now rudderless, was anxious to supply them.  If the party stood for anything, it was incumbency protection.  What better example than the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” bill, which Bush signed while saying he thought it was unconstitutional.  What’s the Constitution among friends?

But rudderless, unprincipled government could not go on forever, and so in time it came crashing down upon the Republican time-servers – and the real party of government took over.  Immutable principles, however, such as you can’t get something for nothing, favor no party, and so Democrats too are facing, or will soon face, the harsh realities that flow from abandoning political and economic discipline.  If the Republican Party can recover the fundamental principles that are captured in the nation’s founding documents, and take them to the people, it will then fall to us to decide what we want.  And if we too believe in something for nothing, we will have no one to blame but ourselves for the consequences that follow.  But at least we will have had a choice, which we have not had in recent years.  So, yes, Mr. Steele’s call for a return to principle is helpful.


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As the current Congress wraps up, and in the after-glo of the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is proposing to limit the ability of senators to filibuster in the next Congress. Of course, we’ve heard the arguments about Republican “obstructionism” and not allowing measures to come to a vote. Having spent seven years as Senate staff, this is all spin. Reid’s attempt to ”reform” the filibuster is about one thing:  limiting the ability of Republicans of offer amendments that Reid doesn’t want Democrats to have to vote on.

First, let’s remember that the objective of every majority leader is to stay majority leader. To do so means members of his party must win re-election. One of the important ways a majority leader can facilitate such is to protect his members from tough votes. For instance, witness Reid’s current attempts to stop a vote on Rand Paul’s (R-KY) amendment to limit indefinite detention. You’d think that since many liberal voters and groups oppose indefinite detention, Reid would welcome such a vote. But such a vote would put Democrats and President Obama at odds. So Reid’s favored course of action is to avoid such a vote.

How does this relate to the filibuster? Well after cloture is invoked (see Senate Rule XXII), the only amendments that can be voted on are those that are both pending and germane. And an amendment only gets pending if there’s no objection. All Reid needs to do is oppose amendments for 30 hours, then the curtain comes down and he can force a vote, and this assumes he hasn’t already filled the amendment tree (I’ve witnessed such a process too many times to count). So when Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) claims, “[w]e’ve had over 300 filibusters in the last six years,” he fails to mention that few of these were actual filibusters. The vast majority were attempts by the Majority to limit amendments by pre-emptively filing cloture.

I’m an empirical person. So while I haven’t found a perfect way to measure this, a good proxy is the ratio of roll call votes to measures passed. After all, a voice vote isn’t much use in forcing uncomfortable votes. Since 1992, the annual average of roll call votes to measures passed is 67 percent. Under Reid its fallen to 60 percent. A good check on whether this a useful indicator is that in election years the measure has been 50 percent, but in non-election years 84 percent, which is what one would expect if a majority leader is trying to protect his members from tough votes.

So don’t be fooled. Reid’s efforts at filibuster reform is not to have more votes, but to have fewer, and to have those votes only on the things which Reid wants voted on. What the Senate really needs is more debate, deliberation, and recorded voting, not less.

Oh, the Uses of the ‘Cyber’ Prefix: Cyberbellicosity, for Example

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) announcement yesterday of upcoming Senate action on cybersecurity legislation coincides nicely with reporting that the recently discovered Flame virus has similarities to Stuxnet. You see, the best example of a cyberattack having kinetic effects—causing physical damage—is Stuxnet. It targeted Siemens industrial software and equipment used in Iran’s nuclear program, causing damage to some centrifuges used in that program.

Stuxnet is widely believed to be a product of the U.S. and Israeli governments. Flame’s kinship with Stuxnet adds to the story: Our government is a top producer of cyberattacks.

The methods used in these viruses will be foreclosed as researchers unpack how they work. Our technical systems adapt to new threats the way humans develop antibodies to disease. But in the near term the techniques in Stuxnet and Flame may well be incorporated into attacks on our computing infrastructure.

The likelihood of attacks having extraordinary consequences is low. This talk of “cyberwar” and “cyberterror” is the ugly poetry of budget-building in Washington, D.C. But watch out for U.S. cyberbellicosity coming home to roost. The threat environment is developing in response to U.S. aggression.

This parallels the United States’ use of nuclear weapons, which made “the bomb” (Dmitri) an essential tool of world power. Rightly or wrongly, the United States’ use of the bomb spurred the nuclear arms race and triggered nuclear proliferation challenges that continue today. (To repeat: Cyberattacks can have nothing like the consequence of nuclear weapons.)

Senator Reid has gone hook, line, and sinker for the “cyber-9/11” idea, of course. Like all politicians, his primary job is not to set appropriate cybersecurity policies but to re-elect himself and members of his party. The tiniest risk of a cyberattack making headlines to use against his party justifies expending taxpayer dollars, privacy, and digital liberties. This it not to prevent cyberattack. It is to prevent political attack.

Politics is well understood by the authors of the letter Senator Reid cited in his statement about bringing cybersecurity legislation to the Senate floor. They are mostly from the party opposite his. Several of them participated at some level in developing our nation’s cyberbellicose world posture. And several now make their living in consulting and contracting firms that respond to the danger they helped create.

They are:

  • Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security secretary under President Bush, is now co-founder and Managing Principal of The Chertoff Group, which “provides business and government leaders with the same kind of high-level, strategic thinking and diligent execution that have kept the American homeland and its people safe since 9/11.”
  • Mike McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency and National Intelligence under President Bush, is now Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton.
  • Paul Wolfowitz was a deputy defense secretary under President Bush, now a visiting scholar at AEI.
  • General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA under President Bush, is now a principal at the Chertoff Group, and in January 2011 was elected to the Board of Directors of Motorola Solutions, which “provides business- and mission-critical communication products and services to enterprises and governments.”
  • Gen. James Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is on the board of advisors of TASC, Inc. TASC “provides advanced systems engineering, integration and decision–support services to the Intelligence Community, Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and civilian agencies of the federal government. We deliver honest counsel, forward–thinking engineering and advanced technologies that help our customers protect Americans at home, in the air, on the battlefield and in cyberspace.”
  • Hon. William J. Lynn III, former deputy defense secretary, is now Chairman & CEO of DRS Technologies, a Defense and Security Electronics Division of Italian industrial group Finmeccanica. DRS Technologies is “leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide.”

The Senate’s SOPA Counterattack?: Cybersecurity the Undoing of Privacy

The Daily Caller reports that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is planning another effort at Internet regulation—right on the heels of the SOPA/PIPA debacle. The article seems calculated to insinuate that a follow-on to SOPA/PIPA might slip into cybersecurity legislation the Senate plans to take up. Whether that’s in the works or not, I’ll detail here the privacy threats in cybersecurity language being circulated on the Hill.

A Senate draft currently making the rounds is called the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2012.” It sets up “cybersecurity exchanges” at which government and corporate entities would share threat information and solutions.

Sharing of information does not require federal approval or planning, of course. Information sharing happens all the time according to market processes. But “information sharing” is the solution Congress has seized upon, so federal information sharing programs we will have. Think of all this as a “see something, say something” campaign for corporate computer security people. Or perhaps “e-fusion centers.”

Reading over the draft, I was struck by sweeping language purporting to create “affirmative authority to monitor and defend against cybersecurity threats.” To understand the strangeness of these words, we must start at the beginning:

We live in a free country where all that is not forbidden is allowed. There is no need in such a country for “affirmative” authority to act. So what does this section do as it in purports to permit private and governmental entities to monitor their information systems, operate active defenses, and such? It sweeps aside nearly all other laws controlling them.

“Consistent with the Constitution of the United States and notwithstanding and other provision of law,” it says (emphasis added), entities may act to preserve the security of their systems. This means that the only law controlling their actions would be the Constitution.

It’s nice that the Constitution would apply</sarcasm>, but the obligations in the Privacy Act of 1974 would not. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act would be void. Even the requirements of the E-Government Act of 2002, such as privacy impact assessments, would be swept aside.

The Constitution doesn’t constrain private actors, of course. This language would immunize them from liability under any and all regulation and under state or common law. Private actors would not be subject to suit for breaching contractual promises of confidentiality. They would not be liable for violating the privacy torts. Anything goes so long as one can make a claim to defending “information systems,” a term that refers to anything having to do with computers.

Elsewhere, the bill creates an equally sweeping immunity against law-breaking so long as the law-breaking provides information to a “cybersecurity exchange.” This is a breath-taking exemption from the civil and criminal laws that protect privacy, among other things.

(1) IN GENERAL.—No civil or criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in any Federal or State court against any non-Federal governmental or private entity, or any officer, employee, or agent of such an entity, and any such action shall be dismissed promptly, for the disclosure of a cybersecurity threat indicator to—
(A) a cybersecurity exchange under subsection (a)(1); or
(B) a private entity under subsection, (b)(1), provided the cybersecurity threat indicator is promptly shared with a cybersecurity exchange.

In addition to this immunity from suit, the bill creates an equally sweeping “good faith” defense:

Where a civil or criminal cause of action is not barred under paragraph (1), a good faith reliance by any person on a legislative authorization, a statutory authorization, or a good faith determination that this Act permitted the conduct complained of, is a complete defense against any civil or criminal action brought under this Act or any other law.

Good faith is a question of fact, and a corporate security official could argue successfully that she acted in good faith if a government official told her to turn over private data. This language allows the corporate sector to abandon its responsibility to follow the law in favor of following government edicts. We’ve seen attacks on the rule of law like this before.

A House Homeland Security subcommittee marked up a counterpart to this bill last week. It does not have similar language that I could find.

In 2009, I testified in the House Science Committee on cybersecurity, skeptical of the government’s ability to tackle cybersecurity but cognizant that the government must secure its own systems. “Cybersecurity exchanges” are a blind stab at addressing the many challenges in securing computers, networks, and data, and I think they are unnecessary at best. According to current plans, cybersecurity exchanges come at a devastating cost to our online privacy.

Congress seems poised once again to violate the rule from the SOPA/PIPA disaster: “First, do no harm to the Internet.”

Obama-Reid ‘Jobs’ Bill Soaked in Greece

A stated aim of the Obama-Reid jobs bill is to preserve the “competitive edge” that our “world-class” education system purportedly gives us. In an attempt to do that it would throw tens of billions of extra taxpayer dollars at public school employees.

A few problems with that: we’re not educationally world-class; we don’t have a competitive edge in k-12 education; and this bill would actually push the U.S. economy closer to a Greek-style economic disaster.

First, the belief that increasing public school employment helps students learn is demonstrably false. Over the past forty years, public school employment has grown 10 times faster than enrollment. If more teachers union jobs were going to boost student achievement, we’d have seen it by now. We haven’t. Achievement at the end of high school has been flat in reading and math and has declined in science over this period. I documented these facts the last time Democrats decided to stimulate their teachers union base, just one year and $10 billion ago.

So what has our public school hiring binge done for us? Since 1980, it has raised the cost of sending a child from Kindergarten through the 12th grade by $75,000 – doubling it to around $150,000, in 2009 dollars.

And what would going back to the staff-to-student ratio of 1980 do? It would save taxpayers over $140 billion annually.

But don’t those school employees need jobs? Of course they do. But we can’t afford to keep paying for millions of phony-baloney state jobs that have no impact on student learning. We need these men and women working in the productive sector of the economy – the free enterprise sector – so that they contribute to economic growth instead of being a fiscal anchor that drags us ever closer to the bottom of the Aegean. Freeing up the $140 billion currently squandered by the state schools would provide the resources to create those productive private sector jobs.

Continuing to tax the American people to sustain or even expand the current bloat, as Obama and Reid want to do, cripples our economic growth prospects by warehousing millions of potentially productive workers in unproductive jobs. The longer we do that, the slimmer our chances of economic recovery become. This Obama-Reid bill is such an incredibly bad idea, so obviously bad, that it is hard to imagine any remotely well-informed policymaker supporting it… unless, of course, they think the short term good will of public school employee unions is more important than the long-term prosperity of the American people.

Thoughts on the Boehner Plan

These are the times that try budget analysts’ souls—especially budget analysts who’d like to see Washington dramatically cut spending. The debate over lifting the debt ceiling has produced a number of proposals from Capitol Hill—none of them have been worth celebrating. We can now add House Speaker John Boehner’s latest proposal to the pile.

Boehner’s proposal boils down to the following: cap discretionary spending over 10 years to achieve $1.2 trillion in savings; have (another) bipartisan group of policymakers come up with $1.8 trillion in “deficit reductions” over ten years; and get a vote on a balanced budget amendment. In exchange, the president would get to increase the deficit by $900 billion this year and by another $1.6 trillion next year.

Here are some thoughts on Boehner’s plan:

  • Under the Congressional Budget Office’s optimistic spending baseline, the federal government will spend $46 trillion over the next ten years. Obviously, reducing spending by $1.2 trillion oven ten years is relatively small.
  • The same dysfunctional congress that treats entitlement programs like lit sticks of dynamite is supposed to come up with $1.6 trillion in “deficit reduction.” Note that we’re not even talking specifically about spending cuts here, so that figure would likely include tax increases assuming they’re able to even come up with something.
  • Under the Boehner plan, spending and debt will continue to rise. At the most, the plan would produce an average of $300 billion a year in cuts in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion over the next two years.
  • Boehner’s bill includes language that tightens up the definition of what constitutes “emergency” spending. Congress regularly slaps the “emergency” designation on all sort of non-emergency spending bills. I have no faith that the new language will stop the foxes guarding the henhouse from continuing to devour chickens.
  • Where are the immediate spending cuts? Once again, we have the promise of cuts but no specifics. Even if the discretionary caps hold the line on that portion of spending, total federal spending (and debt) will continue its unsustainable upward climb. Entitlement spending is the biggest driver of our long-term budgetary problems but entitlement spending isn’t capped under the Boehner plan.

In sum, this plan is another stinker. But with Harry Reid controlling the Senate and Barack Obama sitting in the White House, the votes just aren’t there to get a plan passed that sufficiently addresses our fiscal mess by reining in the size and scope of government.

‘Cut, Cap and Balance,’ the Debt Ceiling and Federal Spending

Cato Institute scholars Daniel J. Mitchell and Chris Edwards evaluate the plans offered by Republicans for lowering federal spending using a so-called “Cut, Cap and Balance” proposal that would make small cuts to federal spending in the short run, cap federal spending, and balance the federal budget using a tax-limited balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

No Time to Debate Patriot

Back in February, Democratic leader Harry Reid promised fellow senator Rand Paul that—after years of kicking the can down the road—there would be at least a week reserved for full and open debate over three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act slated to expire this weekend, with an opportunity to propose reforms and offer amendments to any reauthorization bill.  And since, as we know, politicians always keep their promises, we can look forward to a robust and enlightening discussion of how to modify the Patriot Act to better safeguard civil liberties without sacrificing our counterterror capabilities.

Ha! No, I’m joking, of course. Having already cut the legs out from under his own party’s reformers by making a deal with GOP leaders for a four-year extension without reform, Reid used some clever procedural maneuvering to circumvent Rand Paul’s pledged obstruction, slipping the Patriot extension into an unrelated small-business bill that’s privileged against filibusters. All this just to prevent any debate on amendments—the most prominent of which, the Leahy-Paul amendment, is frankly so mild that it ought to be uncontroversial. (Among other things, it modifies some portions of the statute already found constitutionally defective by the courts, and codifies some recordkeeping and data use guidelines the Justice Department has already agreed to implement voluntarily.) Apparently it’s too much to even allow these proposals to be debated and voted on.

One reason may be that a growing number of senators—most recently Ron Wyden and Mark Udall—have been raising concerns about a classified “sensitive collection program” that makes use of the sunsetting “business records provision,” also known as Section 215.  They’ve joined Dick Durbin and (former Senator) Russ Feingold in hinting that there may be abuses linked to this program the public is unaware of, and that, moreover, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has interpreted this provision (in a classified ruling, of course) in a way that the general public would find surprising, and which goes beyond the law’s apparent intent. Intelligence operations, of course, must remain secret, but this means we are now governed by a body of secret law, potentially at odds with citizens’ understanding of the public statute—with the result that we cannot even know the true reason that common sense reforms, once endorsed unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee, cannot be adopted. This is—to put it very mildly—not how a democracy is supposed to function. Equally troubling, there’s strong circumstantial evidence (which I’ll outline in a separate post) that the program in question may involve large-scale cell phone location tracking and data mining—a conclusion shared by several other analysts who’ve followed the issue closely.

The one silver lining here is that, while press may not have the patience for a complicated policy debate involving byzantine intelligence law—especially now that many Democrats have decided that powers which raised the specter of tyranny under George W. Bush are unobjectionable under an Obama administration—they are always happy to cover a legislative boxing match. Perhaps, thanks to Sen. Paul’s intransigence, we’ll finally see a little sunlight shed on these potent and secret surveillance powers.


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It's been 24 days since my Meowmy had her back surgery and we are very slow to get back to everyone who has sent my sister and I such nice rosettes and hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and tulips in celebration of summertime and other things.

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America has food assurance because farm and ranch families respond to consumer signals that keep food and fiber flowing from the farm gate to the dinner plate. Choice, free markets and incentives for profit are covenants farmers and ranchers make with America to keep pantries full.

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Harlequin Productions of Cayuga Community College has been invited to perform at the Theatre Association of New York State annual festival of community and college theatre. The Harlequin production of Undertones, a one-act play by Roberto Prestigiacomo, will be performed of the festival's two opening performances on Friday, November 21, at the RPI Playhouse in Troy. Undertones competed with 40 other productions for a place in the TANYS festival program.

Undertones was presented at Cayuga Community College in late October as part of Dying for Love, an evening of three one-act plays. To help fund the trip to the festival, Harlequin Productions will stage a benefit performance of Undertones on Tuesday, November 18, at 8:00 p.m. in the college theatre in Spartan Hall; donations will be accepted at the door. At the TANYS festival awards banquet, Harlequin Productions will receive several merit awards for Dying for Love: outstanding accomplishment in scene design, excellence in poster design, and meritorious achievement in acting. The company's spring 2003 production of Gianni Schicchi will be honored with TANYS merit awards for excellence in set design, excellence in acting, meritorious achievement in ensemble work, and meritorious achievement in directing.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Barbara Mandrell, Roy Clark and Charlie McCoy were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in an at times emotional ceremony that saluted them for their music as well as their contributions to bringing the genre to a mass audience through television.

"All three of tonight's inductees looked at the way country music was presented on television and said: 'We can make this even better. We can present country music to a mainstream audience with respect, love and humor," said Tammy Genovese, the Country Music Association's chief executive officer.

Clark co-hosted the TV show "Hee Haw" with Buck Owens for more than two decades. Mandrell joined sisters Louise and Irlene to host "Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters" on NBC in 1980. McCoy, an ace session musician, served as musical director of "Hee Haw" for 18 years.

Mandrell, 60, gave special thanks to her late father and longtime manager, Irby Mandrell, who died in March at age 84. She said she was grateful her father lived to hear of her pending induction.

"Irby Mandrell was my manager as well as being my Daddy over my 38-year career. He taught me and guided me and directed me. It is his name, Mandrell, that I am blessed to have, and it's the gracious loving public and the fans that made that name known and made it become popular," she said in her emotional speech. "So tonight I thank you with my entire being for putting my and my Daddy's name into the Hall of Fame."

The three were honored in a tribute that included performances by Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, George Jones, Alison Krauss, Josh Turner, Michael McDonald, Rodney Crowell and others. With the inductions, the Hall of Fame now has 108 members.

Mandrell began her professional career in California when she was 11. She made her national TV debut on ABC with Red Foley's "Five Star Jubilee." Her first concert tour was with Johnny and June Carter Cash, Patsy Cline and Jones.

She charted her first single in 1969, a remake of Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long," and went on to have a long run of country hits including "Midnight Oil," "Married But Not to Each Other," "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool."

At the height of her career, she acted in TV shows like the "The Rockford Files" and in 1980 joined her sisters to host their show that drew 40 million viewers a week and broadened her exposure beyond country music.

"I adore you with all my heart. You are my other big sister," McEntire told Mandrell. "I thank you for the things you taught me, not only musically but spiritually.

"And before I start balling like a baby, I'll start singing," McEntire said as she began "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" with Jones.

Evident of Mandrell's diverse catalog, bluegrass great Krauss sang "The Midnight Oil," and McDonald gave a bluesy take on "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right," originally a soul song that Mandrell made into a No. 1 country hit. Her sister Louise sang "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed."

For Clark, guitarist Duane Eddy picked a rumbling rendition of the instrumental "Ghost Riders in the Sky," one of Clark's signature tunes. Josh Turner performed "Thank God and Greyhound." Brooks, who, like Clark, is from Oklahoma, said Clark inspired him to pursue his dream and described the entertainer as "a man who never stopped being a man from where he was from."

The 76-year-old humorist, singer and musician got his start on Jimmy Dean's TV show "Town and Country Time" and took over the show when Dean left. He moved to Las Vegas in 1960 and became a regular at the Golden Nugget. Later, he toured and recorded with Wanda Jackson and was a regular at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas.

In the '60s he had top 10 hits with "Tips of My Fingers" and "Yesterday When I Was Young." He also broke into TV, appearing on "The Tonight Show" and "The Jackie Gleason Show" and playing recurring characters on the "Beverly Hillbillies."

But Clark's biggest break came when CBS developed a country version of the comedy series "Laugh-In" and picked him and Owens to co-host beginning in 1969.

Hall of Fame Director Kyle Young called 1969 a banner year for country music on television with ABC's "The Johnny Cash Show," CBS's "Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" and the "least likely to succeed music and comedy show called 'Hee Haw.'"

"Hee Haw?"

"At the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, a show called Hee Haw?" Young joked.

But the show ran for 25 years and helped make Clark and Owens two of the most recognizable figures in country music.

"We love you Roy Clark. We love you," Grand Ole Opry star "Little" Jimmy Dickens told Clark as he formally inducted him into the hall. "Everytime you hit the stage you update country music 10 years, and that's what it's all about."

An emotional Clark said it was humbling to be mentioned alongside many of his musical heroes.

"Just to be associated yourself with the members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and imagine that your name will be said right along with all the list ... ," he said.

True to form, Clark entertained with a couple of humorous stories and a song, "Yesterday When I Was Young."

Crowell led a harmonica-heavy rendition of Roy Orbison's "Candy Man" for McCoy, 68, a multi-instrumentalist best known for his harmonica work.

McCoy's first session was "Candy Man" in 1961. Since then, he's recorded with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Tanya Tucker and many more.

"Well, I never really cared for harmonica or harmonica players until I heard Charlie McCoy," said Harold Bradley, a veteran session guitarist who formally inducted McCoy. "Charlie has taken harmonica playing to a whole different level. It's not just his great technique, it's his interpretation of many musical styles, from bluegrass, country and rock 'n' roll to a Hugo Montenegro album with strings and French horns."

McCoy, who continues to record and perform, said when he first arrived in town he wanted to be a singer and didn't know what a "session" was. But he learned fast watching a teenage Brenda Lee record "Sweet Nothin's" with Nashville's top studio musicians, known as the "A Team."

"When I watched those Nashville A Team musicians work I said 'To heck with singing, I want to do this,'" McCoy recalled.

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By Shane Bacon

Oh, Sergio. Sergio, Sergio, Sergio. He is one of the most famous golfers in the world, some because of his early success as a teenage sensation, and some because he always seems to be the guy that does the wrong thing at the wrong time.

But as he’s grown older, the luster has gone, and Sergio Garcia has become another pro golfer that has a ton of fans, an incredible golf swing, and a putting stroke that, when on, gets him into contention. He could still win a major or two, and when Thursday kicked off at Doral, looked like he had found the form that had won him two late European Tour events in 2011.

But sadly for Sergio, golf is not nine holes. Five-under on his outward nine, Garcia looked superb. He was hitting the ball great, rolling in putts, and taking it to playing companion Tiger Woods. And then the back nine happened.

Garcia made exactly one par (As you can see by this scorecard) on his final nine holes, one birdie, and a host of bogeys before a final triple-bogey dropped him all the way down to a tie for 54th.

You can’t help but enjoy the comments Sergio made after his round. He was honest, saying he lost trust in his golf swing on the back nine, something any golfer can attest to. And also, this is golf. It’s a frustrating sport for amateurs, but at times, can be just as frustrating for superduperstars like Sergio Garcia.

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There's a kind of symmetry there: 1 bogey, 6 birdies; then 1 birdie, 6 bogeys, and the triple.

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Well said, Shane.  Seeing Sergio on the back nine made me feel rotten.  Painful to watch.  The last hole was almost like a capitulation.

Oh, on an unrelated note...

Did anyone see DJ's drive on 18?  Coolest camera angle ever.  Nothing else is even close.  I was watching DJ standing in the tee box getting smaller and smaller, trying to tell from his reaction if he liked the shot.  I thought, "What a cool camera angle.  Whatever they are doing, I hope they start doing it a lot more."  The ball kept getting closer and closer.  I felt like a bird watching it come at me.  Which, in a way, is what it turned out to be.  Except a bird would have gotten cold-cocked.  Anyway, that truly was cool.

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