[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I am as guilty as anyone in thinking the President need to "do something." And I know as well as anyone else, he plays them close.

Sometimes I just forget.

[Lancey Howard]

When Muhammed Ali unveiled his "rope-a-dope" strategy in his 1974 title bout against George Foreman in Zaire, even his own trainer, Angelo Dundee, had no idea what was going on. Dundee sat there aghast and watched, along with the rest of the world, as George Foreman pummeled Ali, round after round after round.... "What on earth are you doing?!", Dundee asked Ali in the corner between rounds. Ali stared ahead, conserving his energy.

What most people failed to see was that Foreman was mostly pummeling Ali's fists and elbows, with just a few punches doing any real damage. Ali let his torso take most of the punches that missed his fists and elbows - - those punches were not going to knock him out.

At the end of the seventh round, Ali asked Foreman, "Is that all you got?" Foreman knew then that something was very wrong because that was indeed all he had.

Foreman was exhausted and his arms were beginning to droop. In the eighth round, Ali exploded on Foreman like lightning, pounding a left-right combination to the chin over the champ's tired, drooping arms. Ali knocked Foreman down for the count, a KO, and won the fight thereby regaining the World Championship.

Interesting story, don't you think?