In 2004, for the first time in decades, Connecticut held an August primary. The turnout was only 19 percent. Those most likely to vote in vacation season are disproportionately the ideologically incandescent and seriously annoyed–not Lieberman supporters. Lamont won one third of the vote at the state party’s convention in May. (Lamont says, “Joe was introduced by [Sen.] Chris Dodd. I was introduced by Annie Lamont,” his wife, a venture capitalist....
Romney, of course, is no clairvoyant. When asked how he knew enough about “Hillarycare 2.0” to rip it apart, he boasted that his impressions were “based on reports we’ve seen this morning.” Translation: “Who cares?” (The Romney event was scheduled on Sunday.) All Romney needed to know, it seemed, was the word “Europe.” “Hillary takes her inspiration from European bureaucracies,” he said. “It’s European-style socialized medicine,” he added. “It’s the kind of thing they have over in Europe,” he concluded....
Twice. MORE: NFL scoreboards | Worst of Week 5 | Hobbled Julio struggles We’ve seen some field-goal kicking curiosities in the National Football League this season, but this looked like a new one. Atlanta veteran Matt Bryant, ranked No. 9 all-time in field-goal accuracy and perfect on six previous tries this season, missed consecutive attempts in Sunday’s home game against Washington. But he didn’t miss everything. The first of those kicks, a fairly routine 38-yarder on the final play of the first half, hit the right upright....
Thomas is the most senior associate justice on the court but since his appointment in 1991, he has become famous for staying quiet during oral arguments and rarely asking questions. This was not the case when the Supreme Court began hearing cases for the 2021/2022 term on Monday, as the justice jumped in to ask counsel for Mississippi a question at the beginning of the period of rapid-fire questioning....
Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, took to Twitter on Friday calling out Thomas, saying he is “corrupt as hell and should resign from the Supreme Court.” Thomas, a conservative justice, is presiding over Moore v. Harper, a controversial case about the power to draw and strike down electoral maps in North Carolina. In Moore v. Harper, Republicans are asking the Court whether electoral maps can be redrawn and if state courts have the legal authority to throw out previous versions....
During the Packers vs. Cardinals game on Sunday, Matthews knocked Carson Palmer to the ground after an incomplete pass. Matthews, pretending to be a good sport, extended his hand to help Palmer up. MORE: What we learned from Packers-Cardinals | Clay Matthews calls BS on HGH report Except Matthews showed he has the maturity of an elementary school boy when he pulled his hand away at the last second and made Palmer get up on his own accord....
The Dodgers left-hander said it’s “not looking great for October” after he had to leave his start vs. the Brewers in the second inning because of forearm discomfort. He missed two-plus months from early July through mid-September with a similar ailment. MLB STANDINGS: Playoff bracket, magic numbers “Just felt something there in my elbow in the second inning,” Kershaw said. “Forearm, elbow, I don’t know what it is. Kind of the same thing I’ve been dealing with....
The Dodgers ace tossed his first career no-hitter in an 8-0 win over the Rockies, and it should have been a perfect game. An error by shortstop Hanley Ramirez in the seventh ended the bid for perfection. Kershaw’s 15 strikeouts are a career high. MORE: Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence in attendance | MLB scoreboard After his 107th and final pitch, a beaming Kershaw raised his arms above his head and waited for a huge hug from catcher A....
Clearly, you no longer have to be a paparazzi-plagued star to be misrepresented on a worldwide stage. Anyone can say anything online (it’s estimated that 1.6 million blog posts are created daily), and dozens of new gadgets, as well as more-powerful search engines, give us easy access to all those indiscriminate bits of information. This convenient yet terrifying reality has created a whole new brand of damage control: Internet reputation repair....
Coutinho mired in post-injury slump Sigurdsson responded to praise from Clement, who said the Iceland midfielder was on a par with players he worked with as a coach at Real Madrid, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, by saying it would be “a dream to play for one of these big clubs”. The 27-year-old told Goal in an exclusive interview that he hoped success with Swansea would earn him a move “in the near future,” but Clement has now insisted that the club intends to retain Sigurdsson’s services....
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney will reportedly attend the Crimson Tide’s 25th anniversary celebration of its 1992 national title team, set to take place during Alabama’s homecoming game against Arkansas. Swinney was a walk-on receiver on that team, which won the program’s last title before Nick Saban’s 2009 squad won the 2010 BCS championship. MORE: Swinney is Clemson’s coach, not Saban’s successor Of course, the obvious elephant in the room is that Swinney’s Tigers beat Alabama 35-31 in the 2017 College Football Playoff national title game....
Will the streak continue at Death Valley? No. 5 Clemson meets No. 10 N.C. State on Saturday in a top-10 ACC showdown with College Football Playoff implications. It is a tall task for the Wolfpack knowing the Tigers are shooting for their 37th straight home victory at Memorial Stadium. The Tigers can tie Florida State (1992-2001) and Yale (1900-03, 1904-08) and inch closer to becoming just the sixth team in the AP Poll era to win 40 consecutive home games....
Swinney said during his weekly media teleconference that Williams, injured when he hit the goal post during Saturday’s game against Wofford, has a “small fracture in his neck area.” PHOTOS: College Football Week 1 Action | MORE: Georgetown LB Ty Williams undergoes neck surgery “Our medical staff did a good job of taking precaution with him,” Swinney said of the 6-4 junior. “The prognosis is great for him. We are just lucky it wasn’t worse....
Chicago Public Schools said seven players on Curie's 24-1 varsity team were ineligible from the start of the 2013-14 season. Student athletes in the district must maintain a 2.0 GPA to participate in sports, or have an individual study plan in place to help them improve academically. MORE: Alexander wants to bring Lyle to Kansas | DeCourcy’s top 25 prospects District CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett says Curie's head coach Michael Oliver has been suspended....
Meeting with reporters Thursday morning in Washington, Shays was a case study in anguish. His party botched the job in Iraq, and he’s lost his credibility and maybe his belief in the process. “I am struggling with my faith,” he said, declining to elaborate. Shays has come to this breakfast to regain his credibility, to convince his media inquisitors that he is not playing politics but is “an honest purveyor of what I see....
And the U.S. could be among the countries worst affected, the authors of the research published in the journal published in the journal Science Advances told Newsweek. If climate change isn’t tackled, by the year 2100, 60 percent of areas that grow wheat will be hit by water scarcity—up from the current level of 15 percent, according to the international team of scientists. They say hitting the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change—including keeping average post-industrial global temperatures from rising above 1....
Writing on the Facebook page for the group’s Cambridge branch, Extinction Rebellion said Trinity College Cambridge has invested the most money in oil and gas companies out of the Oxford and Cambridge University colleges. “Trinity College has invested £9.1m in oil & gas companies, the most of any of the 45 Oxbridge colleges. They own Innocence Farm in Suffolk and want to sell it to Felixstowe Port to build a lorry park for 3,000 vehicles,” the group said....
From the looks of social media, thousands of people in major cities like Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles and New York City marched in solidarity to call attention to global warming in hopes of waking up world leaders who failed to recognize climate change as a detrimental issue. Photos and videos depicted people flooding city streets with signs. Many crowded streets in places like Dublin, Ireland and Melbourne, Australia with their signs warning of Climate Change and urging others to act to reverse it....
The call quickly dissolved into a heated war of words between Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson and an Obama campaign lawyer, Bob Bauer, who joined the call surreptitiously. Bauer accused Wolfson of selectively “attacking the caucus process” whenever a caucus doesn’t go his way. “It’s part of a stream of accusations you’ve made against the caucus process,” Bauer said. He challenged Wolfson’s assertion that he has never before complained to reporters of caucus improprieties, noting that “in Nevada you filed a lawsuit....
The generational change of which Clinton spoke in his Inaugural Address could well be this transformation of government. In 1955, when Clinton was 9, defense spending accounted for 62 percent of federal outlays and “human resource” spending for only 22 percent. Of that, veterans benefits were a third and social security an additional third. By 1992, the proportions had almost reversed: 56 percent for human resources, 22 percent for defense....
