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One of our readers shot us an email, and in an aside, bemoaned the hassle that air transport has become. Crowds, indignities at security, and of course, jam packed planes where you feel more like livestock than person. Sure, it’s cheap. But for a time, there was a vision of air travel that showed elegance and comfort as the way forward.

Each spring, the Yale football team’s rising seniors take a trip to Gettysburg with retired U.S. Army four-star general Stanley McChrystal.

They leave all cell phones, friends and outside distractions behind. The purpose is to bond, learn and grow.

McChrystal talks to the group of Bulldogs about leadership and has a one-on-one discussion with each player. They also tour the battlefield during the two-day retreat with McChrystal and some of those who served with him.

“It puts things into perspective,” said running back Tyler Varga about the trip to Gettysburg. “It’s a good backdrop. We get away, spend time together and focus on figuring out what our responsibility is as Yale football players. We’re a lot tighter after that trip.”

The relationship started in 2012 when Yale hired Tony Reno as head football coach. Reno was looking for a motivational speaker to talk to his new team and set the tone to help rebuild the Bulldogs football program.

via Yale leaders march to Gen. McChrystal’s tune – U.S. – Stripes.

That’s nice, but they really need to take all the PoliSci majors, and any major with a “Social” in the title.

Just this week, two seemingly unrelated events unfolded, but they actually reveal a new liberal tactic. The Hillary Clinton Front-Group, American Bridge, filed a bogus federal complaint against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and then a federal probe into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie found no evidence linking Christie to “Bridge-Gate.” Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted last month. Make no mistake, these events are related. Emerging is a new liberal tactic to gin up legal proceedings against conservatives and then use the media to amplify the investigations and make the officials look guilty. These attacks are part of a coordinated hit job on Republican Presidential Prospects to weaken them, while simultaneously smearing conservatives as untrustworthy criminals.

All three of the separate attacks on Walker, Christie, and Perry have too much in common to simply ignore as politics as usual. The Left’s tactic is simple: 1) find a friendly investigator or action to investigate; 2) highlight the worst of the accusations; and 3) watch the national media have a feeding frenzy. Let’s take a deeper look at each of these smears to see the common threads.

via Left’s Pre-emptive Hits on Walker, Christie, & Perry – Matt Batzel – Page full.

This.

We’ve seen the Left turn the power of government at all levels into a weapon to destroy their political opponents.

Want to start a genuine grass roots TEA Party organization? The IRS will hound you.

You’re a conservative that runs a business? The EPA and OSHA would like to talk to you.

Serve as a successful GOP governor? Get smeared or worse.

The Wisconsin travesty is especially egregious. Not only was there no crime, there could be no crime. The right of political groups to petition the government for redress of grievances is constitutionally guaranteed.

Not only did the shameful John Doe investigation smear the governor in the press, it effectively destroyed every major conservative group in Wisconsin.

Mr. Batzel thinks the voters are smart enough to see through this lawfare approach of the denizens of the deep state. I’m not as optimistic.

We’re not the only country that likes videos about how kickass our troops are. The Russians had a bad inferiority complex in the early 90s. They’re making up for it now by being rather obnoxious. The music is atrocious, and the exercises are pretty clearly scripted, but it’s still a pretty good compilation.

The man suspected of beheading a woman and stabbing another woman at his Oklahoma workplace had recently been fired, Moore police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said Friday, citing investigators’ interviews with people.

Moore said at a news conference that suspect Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, was terminated from his job at Vaughn Foods on Thursday just before the rampage occurred.

Nolen also recently had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam, Lewis said, citing investigators’ interviews with people. Moore police have asked the FBI to help them investigate the man’s background, Lewis said.

via Beheading suspect recently fired, Oklahoma police say – CNN.com.

Autoplay video at the link.

I’m getting tired of this.