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Roger Goodell just presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the Super Bowl Champions and called them "World Champions" How do you get to be WORLD Champions of a purely domestic competition? I mean,Goodell is Commissioner of the NATIONAL Football League, What part of NATIONAL doesn't he understand? Is American Football a world sport or not? If it is, where else is it played? And why aren't those other countries included in the "World Championship"? If it is a purely an American sport, then clearly being "World Champions" is a meaningless label and a crass arrogance. You might as well declare...

Identity and multiculturalism is back on the Dutch agenda. The beginning of the year saw a full-blown row over politicians with dual nationalities. The right-wing politician Geert Wilders claimed their divided loyalties were not compatible with holding a position in office. The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) has responded by publishing a report titled "Identification with the Netherlands", the contents of which are at odds with Mr Wilders' stance. The report wants to refresh the debate and help migrants identify with the Netherlands whether under two passports or one. It says we can't look to the past and...

Three years ago President Bush made his first national television prime time address in August 2001 to the nation on the topic of human embryonic stem cells. Who would have thought that the controversy over little balls of a hundred or so cells might make the difference between another Bush Administration and a Kerry Administration? Yet it might well.   In 2001, Bush was attempting a political balancing act -- allowing research to go forward in this area while mollifying his pro-life political supporters. So Bush limited federal funding to only human embryonic stem lines that had been derived before...