With the clock running down at the end of the game, McHale told Harden to "go ahead and shoot it if you like, " but Harden opted to take the shot-clock violation.
But neither of those are central to an enduring Republican majority, and hopefully in 2008 those people who shoot themselves in the foot will retire ahead of 2008, and that the war will be in the rearview mirror rather than in the windshield.
Japan recognized the betrayal inherent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates's announcement ahead of Pyongyang's newest provocation that the US would only shoot the missile down if it targeted US territory.