MINNEAPOLIS – Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is backing away from his threat to sue the team over alleged discrimination — for now. Kluwe vowed last week to sue because he was unhappy with the team’s resolution of his complaint against special teams coordinator Mike Priefer for alleged anti-gay …
Read More »PGA Championship Third Round News & Notes
Johns Creek, GA – Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) – There a couple of names in the top 10 on the leaderboard at the PGA Championship that may not ring a bell to most people. The man in second place after 54 holes fits that criteria. Bernd Wiesberger is making his fourth …
Read More »Tennessee WR Alton 'Pig' Howard: Absence from team helped him mature into better player
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee wide receiver Alton “Pig” Howard said he never doubted he would return to the team after taking a leave of absence to deal with unspecified “personal circumstances.” Howard spoke to reporters Monday for the first time since rejoining the Volunteers. Howard, who led the team in …
Read More »Unto Us A Child Is Born
I had planned to spend my Christmas vacation with St. George’s School of Medicine in South Sudan, but instead, South Sudan came to me. I am assisting Fox News Contributor Ellen Ratner with a young blind boy named Ker Deng. Ellen and her brother brought Ker to the United States …
Read More »Is Obama Channeling Jimmy Carter?
Hooray for Amazon. The online giant announced Wednesday that it was booting WikiLeaks off its servers, requiring the notorious organization to retreat. Not that it seems to matter much; WikiLeaks’ site is still going strong. Still, at least somebody is doing something to retaliate against the dumping of U.S. state …
Read More »Dennis Blair Was Fired While On Mission Impossible
There is a long tradition in the Navy that when a ship runs aground, the captain of the vessel is relived of command. It doesn’t matter if it was someone else’s fault, if the ship was driven ashore by foul weather or even if it was because the design was …
Read More »STEVE FORBES: To Boost the Economy, Obama Should Keep His Hands Off the Web
The Obama White House has created an uncertainty surplus as investors and corporations wonder what kinds of anti-business regulation the president might end up supporting. This uncertainty is why we hear so much speculation about the economy moving toward recovery but not fast enough to create new jobs. Job creation …
Read More »OBAMA ONE YEAR LATER: Tuned Out On Election Night?
What could the White House possibly have meant when it said that on Election Night, President Obama wasn’t watching the returns? No matter how you interpret that it doesn’t look good. Did the president not care? Was he so confident of victory — or defeat? Did he consider the voice …
Read More »Will the Supreme Court Free Us From the Scourge of Sarbanes-Oxley?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case on whether Sarbanes Oxley, with all of its costly regulatory burdens on American business, is constitutional. This case has been called the most important separations-of-powers case in decades. And the outcome of this case will help determine …
Read More »New Jobs Report — It's Hard to See This as Turning the Corner…
Fri, 08 May 2009 16:19:39 +0000 – By Phil KerpenPolicy Director, Americans for Prosperity Today’s jobs report shows that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid stimulus seems to be stimulating exactly what its OPPONENTS said it would: bigger government. Private payrolls slashed 611,000 jobs in April, the smallest number since 601,000 private jobs were …
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