Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) – Alcides Escobar doubled twice and matched a season-high with four RBI to help the Kansas City Royals to a 6-1 win over the Minnesota Twins in the opener of a three-game set at Target Field. Salvador Perez hit a solo home run and Omar Infante drove …
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VIRGINIA WATER, England – The European Open is returning in 2015 after a six-year absence from the European Tour’s schedule. The tournament will be staged at the Hartl Resoirt in Bad Griesbach, Germany, from Sept. 24-27 and will carry a prize fund of 2 million euros ($2.5 million). The European …
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A specter is haunting the Pentagon: the prospect of Leon Panetta, the newly nominated Secretary of Defense, gleefully wielding his budget axe, slashing his way through the 5-sided building. CIA director Panetta has worn many hats in his hugely multifaceted Washington career –a one-time moderate Republican congressional aide, former head …
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Arianna Huffington has been riding high. Earlier this year, she wrapped up a deal that turned her popular lefty website namesake, The Huffington Post, into a $315-million property. As part of the sale, she went from Internet doyenne to head of the merged AOL-Huffington Post news operation. She didn’t even …
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On May 17th, an Iranian economic and trade delegation will be traveling to the U.S. to participate in the Futurallia International Business Development Forum. Mohammad-Reza Sabzalipour, director of the Iranian World Trade Center, who announced this news to a group of reporters, said: “A sixteen-person delegation comprised of private sector …
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U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion annually. Your money, in other words, is keeping Mubarak in power. That government is now doing this to its people. Listen to the audio. It’s hard to say just what’s happening, given the media blackout, but clearly terrible things are happening …
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Amidst this debt ceiling debate, this president and his Democratic minions’ arguments have descended from “straw men” to “bogeymen” in their attempts to scare Americans. Our seniors were told their hard-earned Social Security checks would be stopped. Our brave veterans were told the services our grateful nation provides them (never …
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‘Sloppy looking . . . hack . . . bad person . . . so-called pundit.” What sin prompted these classy insults from Donald Trump? I objected to him moderating a televised Republican presidential debate. Originally scheduled for Dec. 27, it has now been canceled (after only Newt Gingrich and …
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For the first 45 minutes of Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate, believe it or not, Michele Bachmann had the best answers. Her “Newt Romney” refrain was clever, funny, intriguing — and pointed out how similar these two Rockefeller Republican flip-floppers really are on a range of issues. Mitt Romney pulled …
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“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” sang Janis Joplin in the song “Me and Bobby McGee.” But once freedom is lost there really is nothing left to lose because if it is lost, freedom is terribly difficult to reclaim. Freedom is not the natural state of humankind, …
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