When Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel led the Aggies to a stunning 29-24 defeat over then-undefeated Alabama last November, he instantly became a household name en route to eventually becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. The spotlight
When the SEC comes to Birmingham, Alabama next week for its annual “Media Days” that combines hype and pageantry, the unofficial start to the college football season begins, with all eyes, as they deservedly should be, on the conference that
Immigration reform will wither and die slowly in the House. So says Politico, the paper that keeps score for the company town that is Washington, D.C. As Republican House Members get ready to meet on Wednesday to discuss immigration issues,
After considerable outrage over a video of a Hawthorne, CA police officer fatally shooting a large Rottweiler, the Hawthorne police department released a second video of the incident that they say exonerates the officer’s actions. After someone posted a cell
Prominent liberals, including the group “Battleground Texas,” have recently launched efforts to try to “turn Texas Blue.” But these kickoff events, which have coincided with elected officials in Texas trying to pass pro-life legislation, may have come at the most
On Monday, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin said former officials in the George W. Bush administration attack Sarah Palin because they favor expanding government. “Sarah Palin has spoken out effectively, articulately, with great knowledge and confidence,” Levin said, “about
On Tuesday, the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard published a joint editorial with a simple message: Kill the immigration bill. Writing at National Review and the Weekly Standard, Messrs. Rich Lowry and Bill Kristol write simply that, “passing any version of the
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will keynote a major Tea Party event during Labor Day weekend in Orlando, FL, which also happens to be the home state of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Rubio recently lost the trust of many conservatives over
Animal rights groups are attacking PETA for continuing to kill “an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter” according to a report. As the New York Times notes, the shelter “does few adoptions —
Former Laker great Shaquille O’Neal, who, like Howard, came to Los Angeles from Orlando, said Dwight Howard just could not handle the pressures of playing basketball for the Lakers in Los Angeles. “It was expected,” O’Neal said over the weekend of
Late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, the communications director for embattled Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell denied a report on a prominent Virginia politics blog that McDonnell was finalizing plans to resign from office. McDonnell has come under fire
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has told Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) that she is thinking about challenging him in Wyoming’s Republican Senate primary in 2014. According to the New York Times, Enzi said that Cheney “called me and
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said she and other staffers at Facebook had been booked on the Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. She wrote that she changed to a United
Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour appointed Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as the country’s interim Prime Minister on Saturday. ElBaradei, a 2005 Nobel Prize Winner, opposed former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and joined
With former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi toppled, Egypt is once again seeing a rising tide of anti-Americanism. As the Los Angeles Times notes, “anti-Americanism, which has long been an undercurrent here, is erupting again” as “each side accuses the United
The government will reportedly take $30 million from James Gandolfini’s estimated $70 million estate because of a will that has been called a “nightmare” and “catastrophic” from a tax standpoint. According to reports, the late actor, who gained fame by
The toppling of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi may give rise to more radical Islamic factions in the political realm and more violent groups outside of it. According to the Los Angeles Times, Ansar al-Shariah in Egypt has formed after
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has reportedly observed to colleagues that Secretary of State John Kerry has no friends, according to a new book about Washington D.C.’s permanent political class. The Washington Post obtained an advance copy of New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich’s book, This
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia said he felt Los Angeles Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig should not go to the All-Star game this year while acknowledging he will make plenty of All-Star appearances in the future. “I think
After focusing on the IRS scandal, Tea Party groups are targeting comprehensive immigration legislation that the House will take up after the Senate passed the “Gang of Eight” bill last week 68-32. Aware the pressure representatives will face in their
Italy and Argentina will meet in a friendly soccer match on August 14 in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico to honor Pope Francis, the Argentinian who is an avid soccer fan. The Pope will watch the match from the Vatican with representatives
A new study of government data has found that all of the net domestic gain in employment over the last 13 years in the United States has gone to foreign-born (legal and illegal) workers. The same study found that the
Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Yasiel Puig did not experience freedom until he successfully defected from Cuba–after numerous failed attempts–in the summer of 2012. After becoming the first player in history to win the player of the month award in either
When Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant met Dwight Howard on Tuesday to convince him to stay in Los Angeles, he did not grovel or beg Howard to remain with the team. Instead, one the game’s all-time great competitors challenged
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on Tuesday that he supported a pathway to citizenship for the country’s illegal immigrants. In an interview with Wausau Daily Herald, he was asked if he could “envision a world” where 11 million illegal immigrants could “have a path to
