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Skinned

By Wlady Pleszczynski on 11.16.09 @ 11:13AM

In exciting news Washington Redskins’ faithful have been awaiting as eagerly as they do an extra-point try, the Supreme Court has declined to look into a case that alleges the NFL team’s name is offensive to Native Americans. Now maybe the high court will do something about the name of the once-feared New England team, which after last night’s el-foldo against Peyton Manning no longer deserves to be known as the Patriots.

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Wlady Pleszczynski is editorial director of The American Spectator and the editor of AmSpec Online.

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