Some quick remarks

An awful loss for Terps:  Maryland led for most of the second half at Florida State, but three plays gave any observer a bad feeling for Maryland's end-of-game chances.  First, Nick Faust - who otherwise played a wonderful game covering for P'Shon Howard at point guard, missed two free throws at the start of the final stretch run.  Then, he missed the front end of a one-and-one.  Then, Alex Len missed a jam with 12 seconds left that would've put the Terps up three.  Was Len fouled on the play?  He was.  But anyone who thinks Maryland is going to get that call better wake up before a maple tree jumps in front of your car.  After Michael Snare hit an open three to put Florida State up two with 1.1 seconds left, the Terps nearly pulled it out anyway.  They set up a play where a pick was set for the inbounds passer, who, without anyone in his face, was able to fire a strike to Des Wells, who dribbled once, turned and shot from about 40 feet.  It looked real good leaving his hand but it sailed just over the rim, sealing Maryland's fate.  Wells had played exceptionally well down the stretch.  Earlier in the second half, the play of Luke Aronhalt had carried Maryland while Wells rested.

For obama, solving an immigration problem isn't in his party's interest, so instead of leading, the American Nero plays the race card as only he can.  Immigration is no longer a problem to be solved; it is a problem to be used as a political bludgeon, a bludgeon to perpetuate a lie.   Even though most Americans would be unable to say with any degree of specificity what it was in the panoply of economic realities what exactly had "recovered" during the "economic recovery" that allegedly took place during obama's first term, the harsh reality for America is that even this "recovery" is played out. Sure, the crowd of Democratic functionaries in the media assured us that a recovery had been "ongoing." Now, even that absurdity is in danger of coming to an end with the revelation that the economy actually shrunk during the last quarter of 2012.  You will want to read John Hinderaker's post on Powerline that delves into this new reality: 

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/01/is-the-worst-recovery-in-history-coming-to-an-end.php

No longer will the sporting lads at NBC have to grit their teeth and report that the "economy continued to grow" last quarter, even though the so-called growth was at the annual rate of 1% (If you're one of the apologists who say growth is growth, imagine what the democratic media would be saying if the growth rate under President Bush, even in the quarter immediately after 9-11, was ever so pitifully paltry).  With baited breath, now, we all turn to the White House to see what obama and other anti-capitalists will pull out of their bag of marxist tricks.  Some say it will be more stimulus.  The Good Lord knows that worked well the first, second and third times it was tried.  Well, maybe not.  I know that the new plan will begin with the reminder that this was all George Bush's fault. 

It wasn't.  Anyone with half of a brain knows that.  But they'll say it anyway. They always do.  Anti-Americans like obama and his mob just cannot help themselves.  One guesses that if you caught them with their guard down they'd say that Bush knew about 9/11, too, but we're not supposed to say that.  

The sad reality is that obama could care less. Right now he is busy, and the media is busy, bludgeoning the spineless GOP on the issue of immigration.  Sen. Rubio and others in the the "Gang of Eight" are playing it straight, trying to solve a vexing problem.  They have a common sense solution that really is owed a serious vetting.  Yesterday, the lucid and decent man promised that if the Dems think they can ram anything through Congress that doesn't have a meaningful and expressly implemented border enforcement aspect, they are kidding themselves.  But if that necessity is included, amnesty might come along with it.  Many on both sides would be unhappy but it is a bridge that is going to have to be built if the issue is ever to be solved.  Rubio might be just the man for the leadership job.  So what does the American Nero do?  He gives a speech that apparently takes meaningful enforcement off the table.  It seems obama wants things his way or he doesn't want them.  Yet it is the GOP that is the tough guy.  Really?  You can almost hear the campaign rhetoric now:  the GOP hates Hispanics.  They want them all deported.  Or something like that.  Solve the problem and take away the campaign issue.  obama can't have that.