Friday, May 11, 2012
Former President Clinton talks with Golf Channel | ajc.com - There were no "Billigans" recorded when former President Bill Clinton recently sat down with former golf pro David Feherty to reflect on golf and the nation's highest office.
The Josh Hamilton Story: Why Statistics, Achievements, and Awards Can't Always Measure Success - MidwestSportsFans.com - Zach Gropper - Josh Hamilton has evolved from a tainted figure and despicable waste of talent into a pure and influential role model. Sure, he’s had problems with substances, but he has put forth all the effort in the world to overcome them, and in turn has encouraged and inspired others, which his story has done and will continue to do. So the 4-HR game, the MVP Award, the immaculate statistics, and multi-million dollar contracts are not the story for Hamilton; they are merely nice details to the incredible series of events that makes up one of the best success stories of our generation.
Power surge: Rangers' Josh Hamilton hitting jackpot – USATODAY.com - Bob Nightengale - Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton has long captivated baseball with his dramatic rise from drug addict to superstar. Now, he again is poised to leave everyone in suspense. Just when you think Hamilton's story can't get more compelling, he becomes the 16th major leaguer to hit four home runs in one game on Tuesday night against the Baltimore Orioles. Now, consider his upcoming free agency.
Mitt Romney was an 'evil bullying supreme' says former classmate as presumptive nominee apologises for 'holding down gay taunt student and chopping off his hair' | Mail Online - One of Mitt Romney's high school classmates says that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was 'evil' in his younger years, and acted like he was a schoolboy gone mad 'like Lord Of The Flies'. The Romney camp was reeling after the revelations that he forcibly shaved the head of a high school classmate who was regularly taunted for being gay. The former governor of Massachusetts grabbed tearful John Lauber and hacked away with a pair of scissors because he thought his bleached blond hair was ‘wrong’. Mr Romney also supposedly mocked another student who was a closeted gay by shouting ‘Atta girl!’ when he tried to speak in class.
PGATOUR.com - Live@ Online Video Coverage - Watch as the best players in the world take on one of golf's most iconic holes — the famed 17th at TPC Sawgrass. LIVE@ brings you exclusive online coverage of THE PLAYERS. -- Thurs, May 10 9am - 7pm ET. -- Fri, May 11 9am - 7pm ET. -- Sat, May 12 12pm - 7pm ET. -- Sun, May 13 12pm - 7pm ET
The Human Cost of Ideology - NYTimes.com - Editorial - For more than a year, House Republicans have energetically worked to demolish vital social programs that have made this country both stronger and fairer over the last half-century.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lugar Concession Speech Tells All About Polarization - Bloomberg - Ezra Klein - “We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional,” wrote Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein in the Washington Post. “In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.” In Washington, “Mann and Ornstein” are a brand. Mann works at the centrist Brookings Institution; Ornstein at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Over their four- decade partnership, they have established themselves as the two most respected, committed scholars -- and defenders -- of the U.S. Congress.
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