Five players were ejected and suspensions loom after players and coaches from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks brawled on Tuesday night as bad blood simmered between the two National League West rivals. The Dodgers won the game 5-3,
On Tuesday, Aneesh Chopra lost his race for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomination in Virginia to State Senator Ralph Northam, dealing a potential blow to Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor. With 98% of the vote in, Northam had 54.2 of
Support for race-based affirmative action is at an all-time low. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found only 45% of Americans feel affirmative action programs are still needed, while 45% believe such programs should end. In 1991, a record 61% of
Dave Zirin, the liberal sports writer for the left-wing Nation magazine, suggested Tim Tebow’s pro-life views and public embrace of his Christian faith made him a “polarizing” figure and was promptly corrected by the vice president of the Nielsen Sports
Former Atlanta Braves great Chipper Jones did not mean any harm when he asked on Twitter last weekend whether illegal immigrants would stop crossing the Rio Grande if it was full of gators. But he apologized the next day anyway
Tiger Woods said Sergio Garcia did not apologize for his “fried chicken” remarks when the two briefly shook hands at Merion Golf Club on Monday. At a press conference on Tuesday before the U.S. Open, the world’s top-ranked golfer said
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called President Barack Obama a hypocrite for expanding the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs that Obama had previously railed against. In an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Monday, Paul said the NSA’s spying was an
Retired Adm. Dennis Blair, former Director of National Intelligence from 2009-10, said the 29-year-old National Security Agency leaker was a “low-level employee”with an “overinflated” sense of his role and endangered the country. In an interview on PBS with Judy Woodruff on Monday,
Chris Cillizza, the author of the Washington Post’s “The Fix” political blog of record for those seeking conventional D.C. thought, thinks the Washington Nationals had the worst week in Washington last week even even after there were more revelations about the
Edward Snowden, the 29-year old who blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance programs, claims that China is not an enemy of the United States. When asked if Americans may suspect he is hiding in Hong Kong in order to
On Sunday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the person who leaked information about the National Security Agency’s data collection programs should
After winning her second career grand slam at the French Open, 31-year-old Serena Williams fell to the clay, pouring with emotion that was reminiscent of–though a bit different from–Andre Agassi’s reaction when he won the career slam by winning on
Yasiel Puig has made baseball fun again for the Dodgers. Yes, the 22-year-old Cuban defector had a record-setting week after finally being called up this week to the Show. But he has infused life into a team that had been
On Saturday, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin urged soldiers to post pictures of themselves reading books written by conservatives like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and David Limbaugh. Palin did so after an “outrageous” report surfaced that revealed the U.S. Army
An IRS employee from the Cincinnati office who had been tasked with reviewing applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party and conservative groups was furious that administration officials tried to blame the targeting on “rogue agents” in the office, calling
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to pass the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill before July 4, and he has given the Senate three weeks to debate the bill. “We are going to finish the bill before
On Thursday, Senate Democrats were harshly critical of the the Obama administration’s collection of private domestic and international phone records from Verizon customers. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), according to The Hill, said the operation was an “outrageous breach” of privacy. “I have
The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may have lied to Congress when he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12 that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. On Thursday, Breitbart News broke
The federal government may store private phone records ,and Internet data that it has seized through the Prism program, in the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center that is being built and set to open this fall. The UK Guardian reported on
The IRS official who is responsible for the agency’s implementation of Obamacare visited the White House 165 times since 2011, a recently released report says. Sarah Hall Ingram, the official, had been in charge of the agency’s tax-exempt division when
