On the streets of Copacabana, fans from all nations are sporting their jerseys: Lots of Colombians in bright yellow, Chileans in red, sky blue stripes for Argentina, Mexican green, the German tricolor, a trickling of Aussie yellow, and, of course, the ever-present gold and green of Brazil. You get the feeling that many of these folks brought along just one shirt in their suitcase, to be worn from now until their team is eliminated.

(Matt Kelemen, soccer-crazy brother of NPR diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen.

I'll be honest. As an expat living overseas, I love that America sucks at soccer. We dominate so many other world stages and impose our values, culture, and corporations on other countries. Even if we do not have the most superior product or idea, society often thinks we do and perception is skewed. Eventually, we will have a world class team- likely. But for now, I love that there's one very public arena where we are weak. I'm rooting for Ghana on Tuesday. (Katie Joy, Warsaw)

I'm also an expatriate and think this is a disheartening attitude. We're terrible in so many respects on the international scene and our disinterest in soccer reflects that. I look forward to each WC because it's at least one area in which we cooperate and share with the world. Don't be glad that since we're so good at being international bullies, we're the weak sister when it comes to football. Be glad that we're starting to play along with the rest of the world. (M.W. Dunn, London)

Michael G. "Mike" Fitzpatrick is the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district.

Remarks on 12th anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VikroElTE [Video: Slide 6]

Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United State of America on January 20, 2009.

2013 Independence Day address

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twcsBmqgVzo [Video: Slide 7]

Mitt Romney sing America the Beautiful on the campaign trail and draws reactions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJlepw4VUus [Video: Slide 8A]

(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love, and Understanding was released in 1974. Its best-known version is Elvis Costello's 1978 cover.

The song was regularly performed as an all-star jam on the 2004 "Vote for Change" tour, which featured a rotating cast of headliners.

In 2008, Costello performed a version of the song on Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas album with Colbert, Feist, Toby Keith, John Legend, and Willie Nelson.

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson II (1900– 1965), was an American politician, former governor, and diplomat, noted for his promotion of liberal causes.

He received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 even though he had not campaigned in the primaries.

Party leaders selected him because he was more moderate on civil rights than Estes Kefauver, yet still acceptable to labor and urban machines.

Stevenson was defeated in a landslide by Republican Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election and again in 1956 by an even bigger landslide.