CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James acknowledged that it didn’t look good for the Cavaliers on Tuesday night. As usual when his team is in trouble, he did something about it. James scored 35 points, making the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 48
The Bengals get to see how their defense will stand up against a “midget” quarterback now that the Browns have called on Johnny Manziel to take over for for the beleaguered Brian Hoyer in their game on Sunday. In his
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Islamic State fighters have lost the initiative in Iraq and are now “on defense” with far less ability to generate the kind of ground maneuvers that enabled the extremists to capture large chunks of Iraq earlier
On Monday, the Columbia, Missouri, school board voted to allow “select staff” to carry concealed handguns in public schools for use in the defense of their own lives and the lives of school children. According to KRCG 13, the staff
House Speaker John Boehner has decided to give President Barack Obama $5.4 billion to fight Ebola around the world and at home. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill Boehner’s House GOP leadership team introduced on Tuesday after 8 p.m. includes, according
For the third straight evening, demonstrators took to the streets of Berkeley, California to protest the shooting by police of unarmed black suspects Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY. And for the first time
There will be up to 1,000 more U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan after the end of this year, potentially raising the total to 10,800 instead of the 9,800 that President Obama said would be there by the beginning of 2015, outgoing
It’s not that they’re not in. It’s more the way they were left out. The College Football Playoff selection committee revealed its first four-team bracket on Sunday and very conspicuous excluded the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University. Despite putting
Ten years ago in his only nonfiction book, Born Fighting, James Webb came to the defense of red-state America, standing unapologetically for the marginalized Scots-Irish stock that heavily populates the South and Midwest. On the wrong side of the cultural
On Sunday, Al Sharpton appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press to fulfill his weekend race-baiting quota, discussing the grand jury results in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. After Chuck Todd asked Sharpton about addressing the problem of
Fans of the Colbert Report who tuned in late Monday night to see President Obama were shocked to see that the venerable fake-conservative host abandoned his chair so that Obama could take over. As Colbert queued up his traditional segment
In response to mounting criticism of the controversial cast of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Christian Bale spoke candidly with The Hollywood Reporter. Bale, who is playing the role of Moses, spoke about the film and the critical perception by some
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A week in San Diego turned out quite well for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. It was all football, all the time, and it showed Sunday night. Brady threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to
Republican House members who voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) broke the 2010 GOP Pledge to America. Under a section entitled “Read the Bill” in the Pledge to America that Republicans penned up in 2010, the GOP
The Obama administration released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement as refugees amid the president’s renewed efforts to close down the facility. Upon taking office, President Obama pledged to close down the U.S. military
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Britain will open a new military base in Bahrain Obama orders 1000 more troops for Afghanistan Britain will open a new military base in Bahrain The base will be an expansion of Bahrain’s Mina
Week 14 features seven separate games featuring teams with winning records facing off. Big Ben plays for a playoff berth, Brian Hoyer fights for his job, Pete Carroll coaches against his former USC quarterback, and Tom Brady and Philip Rivers
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The prevalence of sexual assaults in the military decreased by about 25 percent to 19,000 in 2014, when compared to 26,000 in 2012, according to a Pentagon statement. During the same period, victim reports increased by an estimated 66 percent to
With January fast approaching and the newly-Republicans in the House and Senate about to take their seats, it seems fitting to point out a frivolous and burdensome gun control law the GOP needs repeal or amend — namely, the ban
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An American photojournalist and a South African teacher held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen were killed Saturday during a failed U.S.-led rescue attempt, a raid President Barack Obama said he ordered over an “imminent danger” to
WASHINGTON, D.C.–President Obama officially nominated Ashton Carter as his fourth Secretary of Defense to succeed Chuck Hagel, the only Republican in the president’s national security team, who resigned under pressure from the White House. During a Roosevelt Room ceremony, before
The U.S. Department of Defense, ever concerned that local police departments might lack needed equipment for their efforts combating crime, sent the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department an early Christmas present last March: 500 snowshoes and 132 snow trousers. That wasn’t
On December 2, China conducted the third test of the Wu-14 missile in western China, viewed as a “strike vehicle” for China’s strategic nuclear program and potentially one of the most dangerous weapons in China’s arsenal. Various reports citing Pentagon sources
Gaffe-prone Madrid health chief Javier Rodríguez, who received a swell of criticism for implying that auxiliary nurse Teresa Romero contracted Ebola because of her own lack of care, has been fired from his position after Romero and her family publicized
A Texas Democratic Congressman is looking to honor a group of football players who took to the field with their hands up showing solidarity with the protesters in Ferguson Missouri who grew upset after a grand jury no billed the
As expected, President Obama says he’s decided to make Ashton Carter his nominee for Secretary of Defense. “I accepted the president’s offer to be nominated for Secretary of Defense because of my regard of his leadership,” Carter said during Obama’s
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferocious and dangerously erratic typhoon blew closer to the Philippines on Friday, as differing forecasts about its path — one predicting it will graze the capital Manila — prompted a wide swath of the country
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to announce his pick Friday to lead the Pentagon amid the threat from Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the White House said. White House press secretary Josh Earnest would not say
Miami joins powers Duke and Kentucky as the only schools with more than two Top 100 players in the early Value Add rankings, which appear here first and then will be updated on the www.valueaddbasketball.com list of all 4,000 players.
Links to Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports and Fox Sports show wide praise for the of www.valueaddbasketball.com database to pinpoint a player’s value, but today announces major improvements to answer valid criticisms that have circulated at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. You can say the same about
Michael Sam, hectored by TMZ’s cell-phone video paparazzi, says he doesn’t believe his place on the couch instead of the field speaks of his football abilities. The pass rusher cut by the St. Louis Rams and the Dallas Cowboys, noting
A long-standing injustice perpetrated by the Obama Administration is about to be overturned by Congress, as reported at the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury
The inclusion of a public lands package in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) compromise has drawn criticism from two prominent conservative voices in the upper chamber. Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers are celebrating the inclusion. “The decision to attach
Barbra Streisand – or whoever it is that handles her social media – has been tweeting about the (immensely sound) incoming GOP chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, Senator Jim Inhofe. Inhofe had fingered Streisand as a
Iran turns out to be a big player on the Cyber War battlefield, as reported by ComputerWorldUK: For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations from 16 countries,
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) agreement, reached by a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers, will lower the pay raise for troops, slow the growth in housing allowances, and increase co-pays for most of their prescriptions. Critics
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tyus Jones darted through the lane for easy baskets and hit two key 3-pointers. Any time he made a big play, his family followed with raucous applause. It was quite a Midwest homecoming Wednesday night for
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers avoided tying the record for the worst start to a season in NBA history, ending their 0-17 skid with an 85-77 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. Michael Carter-Williams had 20 points,
Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine has decided to stick with quarterback Brian Hoyer for Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts instead of replacing him with rookie Johnny Manziel. Pettine said his decision derived from Hoyer leading the Browns to a
Following the record pace of firearm background checks on Black Friday 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Mark Morford announced that gun sales had been driven by “scared white guys” who “don’t read complicated books.” According to the Chronicle columnist, who describes himself
