Mickey oversees WORLD's online presence as web managing editor. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, teenage daughter, and a dog/administrative assistant named Daisy.
Please welcome Angela Lu to the WORLD staff. Angela hails from sunny Southern California, is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, and now lives along the banks of the muddy Mississippi in St. Louis. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, reading, and storytelling. She tells me that if she could have any job she wanted (without pay, job security, etc., as a factor), she would be a reporter for WORLD.
Angela, we’re glad to have you on board. And we appreciate your fresh take on Whirled Views this morning.
A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77.
He had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.
The New Orleans Saints stunned the Indianapolis Colts and won the Super Bowl 31-17, Mosaic church’s Doritos ad was a winner and aired, and the two Tebow ads were so subtle in their message that if you didn’t know beforehand what they were about, you probably thought Mom simply wanted to make sure Timmy was eating right and taking his vitamins. I wonder if all those people who made such a fuss about it feel a little silly this morning.
You’d think with all the hoopla over Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad that he’s the first football player to ever take a pro-life stand. But let’s go back 23 years to Super Bowl XXI, where the New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos. After that game, the American Life League produced a video featuring several Giants who were very adamant in their stance against abortion.
One of the players was 1987 Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms. The Giant quarterback remarked that, yes, he had some impressive statistics in that game, completing 22 of 25 passes for 268 yards and three touchdowns. He added, however, that the papers the next day mentioned some other stats that sadly received far less attention: an average of 4,400 babies aborted every day for a total of 1.6 million every year. “Suddenly, my statistics seemed very insignificant,” said Simms. Interestingly, tomorrow, when the Tebow ad airs, one of the men in the CBS broadcast booth will be Phil Simms.
Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly opportunity to sound off about the week past.
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Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has died at age 77.
