I’ve written before about the excitement of college baseball. During the playoffs, the thrills are that much more palpable, mostly because teams play with a win-or-go-home mentality. But for one team, “win or go home” has a totally different meaning. The Birmingham-Southern College Panthers, one of the top programs […]
Israel has pulverized Hamas during the last seven months, destroying its infrastructure, killing its fighters, and reducing much of the Gaza Strip to rubble, but Hamas is proving to be more resilient than few people in Israel thought possible. The terrorists have resumed rocket attacks in Northern Gaza into Israeli communities and have regrouped […]
“Estimates put the number of people coming into the area at 45,000, with an estimated financial impact of $200 million, according to Visit Milwaukee. All those visitors will need a place to stay, and the city proper has about 6,000 hotel rooms, necessitating a need to draw on lodgings from as far away as Madison, […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a genius. We know that because the McArthur Foundation gave her a “genius grant.” She is renowned worldwide, and is currently a professor at Howard University and a New York Times columnist. Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine […]
WASHINGTON — A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual – spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall. It’s just the latest example of how money […]
The devastation wrought by liberal policies in blue states over the past few years has truly been a sight to behold. People who never had any intention of leaving their home states have been prompted, due to rampant crime, homelessness and soaring costs of living, to undertake the previously unthinkable and finally join the great […]
WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are needed lest the programs become unable to pay full benefits to retiring […]
Actor Mark Hamill made an unexpected appearance at the White House on Friday. I know what you’re thinking: “Mark Hamill?” I’m sure they could have found someone else with significantly more star power than Hamill, whose claim to fame is portraying one character in a movie franchise that first started nearly fifty years ago. […]
Just like “beisbol” was “berry, berry good” to legendary NY Mets second baseman Chico Escuela… “Baseball been berry, berry good to me.” pic.twitter.com/wPnhDIMcq7 — Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) April 13, 2020 …even after knifing his teammates with a tell-all tome between stints in the sport… Bill Murray reports for SNL from the 1979 New York […]
Top O’ the Briefing Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Iswalyuz had high hopes for the spiked cottage cheese/muskmelon dollops she was bringing to the “F-Troop” Enthusiasts Summer Gala. When the news cycles get a little repetitive for a week or two — or 75 during COVID — […]
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