NFL Celebrates the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 50 Years

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National Football League

To NFL Fans:

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Golden Anniversary marks a major milestone in the history of professional football and the National Football League. The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened its doors on September 7, 1963 and has achieved 50 years of excellence in honoring the legends of the game, preserving pro football’s historic documents and artifacts and educating the public regarding the origin, development and growth of this sport we love. The NFL, its players, coaches, and owners are proud to participate in many events and activities to celebrate the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s first half-century of success.The NFL has designated all the games played during weeks 14 and 15 of the 2012 season to pay tribute to the Hall of Fame. During these games, each team’s players will wear the Pro Football Hall of Fame 50 Year logo patch on their uniforms.Also, Hall of Famers will be in the broadcast booths to announce and comment about the Hall of Fame’s 50 Years and teams will use the occasion to honor their alumni and celebrate their team histories. Another very exciting element of the 50 Years celebration is the completion of the largest-ever expansion and renovation of the Pro Football Hall of Fame facilities. I strongly encourage all football fans to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio during its 50th year to witness, first-hand, the major enhancements that have been made to America’s premier sports museum and showplace.

In order to “bring the Hall of Fame exhibits to the fans,” the Hall of Fame has launched a 7,000 square-foot interactive, multimedia national traveling exhibition, titled, “Gridiron Glory – the Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.” This exhibition is currently at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh and will travel to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans followed by a five-year nationwide tour to major cultural institutions.

Congratulations to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for 50 years of success and thanks to the fans for helping to put the foundation in place for even greater success in the future. We appreciate your continued support of the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Sincerely,Roger Goodell
Commissioner, National Football League

BREAKING: Obama To Reveal True Father of Isaac, AND TMR’s Father… (Open Thread)

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Yes, it’s the Fortunate Son. Again. This is an open thread for any inclined to release a little schadenfreude!

Of course, the REAL news is that TMR has a new look, thanks to founder Steve Foley and the labors of Doug Welch (@stix1972). We think the redesigned front page gives the reader a clearer path to all the site has to offer. Let us know what you think, and keep posting those comments on the news (however awful) of the day Remember, liberation is nigh, if only we have the will to grasp for it in November!

VooDoo Pizzeria Needs Your Help!

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Help us bring an all new, scratch-made, locally grown, wood fired pizzeria to North Orange County California.

Dj partners and long time friends Steve Foley and Mike Walz have a vision to bring their passion for entertaining and great scratch-made, locally grown food & drink to West Garden Grove Ca. a community that would be greatly served by this amazing concept.

Voodoo Pizzeria will be unlike anything the community of West Garden Grove has ever experienced. Infusing the best elements of New Orleans French Quarter nightlife and Voodoo-centric ambiance with California’s gourmet wood fired pizza. Using locally grown ingredients, this restaurant, entertainment & full bar concept is sure to turn heads and delight customers of all ages while serving the community with a unique dining experience.

We need your help to accomplish this task.


As you know, starting a business in any environment (let alone the financial situation we currently find ourselves in) is not easy and costs a boatload of money… that’s where you come in. We’re asking that you help with a donation to generate the seed money we need to reach our goal and take this project to the next level.

What is Indiegogo???

Indiegogo is a new way to fund creative projects through “Crowd Funding“. If you’re not sure how it works, take a look here and here. Essentially, you pledge funds to help us develop and open Voodoo Pizzeria and we give you cool stuff in return. Check them out over there on the right side bar?

When we reach our fundraising goal, you get the cool stuff that corresponds with your pledge and we get the financial support we need to complete our project. If we don’t reach the goal we will use whatever money we do raise as a down payment on our business loan!

We believe in the strength of independent business owners, not that we think corporations are necessarily evil or bad, but when the question is… who can better serve a local community, the answer is always… “those people who live in that community.” We also believe in the strength and cooperation of those independent business owners coming together and helping each other for mutual advantage in order for everyone to prosper.

We fully intend to be a part of the growing cooperative of small business owners, growers, and restaurants that not only serve each other… but seek to enrich and benefit our community by providing the very best food made with the very best ingredients!

Milton & Rose Friedman’s Legacy of School Reform

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Why choice is winning – and helping poor kids learn.

“We have a simple problem in this country” when it comes to education, says Robert C. Enlow, president of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. “And that’s a monopoly. It’s not the people in the system. It’s the system itself.”

How bad is the problem? Consider this: Since 1970, direct per-pupil spending on K-12 public schools has more than doubled in inflation-adjusted dollars while educational outcomes for graduation high school seniors have remained flat at best.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006) introduced the concept of school vouchers in a 1955 essay and, with his wife Rose (1910-2009), created the foundation that bears their name in 1996. Based in Indianapolis, the Friedman Foundation promotes “universal school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K-12 education in America.”

Despite resistance from teachers unions, legislators, parents at well-funded and high-performing schools, and other entrenched interests, school choice is booming in the United States, with the Wall Street Journal dubbing 2011,”the year of school choice.”

Last year, eight new programs were created and 11 existing ones were strengthened or expanded, meaning that students and parents in a total of 12 states plus the District of Columbia could participate in choice programs that have access to some $1 billion in funds. Charter schools – publicly funded schools of choice that receive a fraction of the per-pupil spending given to traditional schools in exchange for greater curricular freedom – didn’t exist until 1996. Now, over 2 million students are enrolled in charter schools, which claim more than 10 percent of school enrollments in over 100 cities. Nearly 2 million children are home schooled and innovative new choice programs including virtual schools, blended learning, and education savings accounts (which allow parents to spend education dollars on multiple providers) are becoming an everyday reality.

“Milton Friedman was right,” says Enlow, discussing who is using the new opportunities. “A universal [school choice] program would benefit the poor tremendously, the middle class somewhat, and the rich hardly at all.” But Enlow also stresses that while the revolution in K-12 education is growing, it’s far from a fait accompli: “We need to amp up the calls for reform across the country.”

Reason sat down with Enlow in January at the start of National School Choice Week in New Orleans.