Tom: If Arlen Specter regards it as an egregious wrong for the New England Patriots to spy on their opposition, does he regard it as equally wrong for the United States government to employ people to spy on other governments, or the American people? Might his concern be nothing more than a carry-over from the 2005 Super Bowl when the Patriots beat his home-state team, the Philadelphia Eagles? The people of Boston had better watch out, lest the senator try to persuade the Bush administration to engage in a “shock and awe preemptive strike” against this newly-discovered member of the “axis of evil.” “If we don’t fight the Patriots in Boston, we’ll have to fight them at Giants Stadium!”

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