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Does anyone, on either side of this absurd debate, really believe that an athlete, upon scoring the winning goal in an international championship game, was actually trying to stage some kind of cultural coup?
Last summer the unit, which watches for signs of a military coup, executed 120 soldiers suspected of planning a rebellion.
The Washington Post lead reports that soldiers in the Ivory Coast mounted a coup d'etat, ousting President Henri Konan Bedie and suspending the country's constitution, courts, and parliament.
Having come apart over foreign policy (trade with China) and fiscal policy (the House leadership coup), the Republicans seem ripe for a civil war over social policy.
Republican idealists led a failed coup in 1891.