U.S. head coach BOB BRADLEYOn the importance of three points in the opening game:“It’s important to start the Gold Cup the right way. There were a lot of good things: a good team effort and four different guys scoring goals. All those things are important as we start this tournament.”
On Robbie Rogers, who was named [...]

“While Bernie Madoff gets 150 years, Waxman and Markey weren’t even cited in their scheme, their rip-off: this climate bill.”
“Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union admits that he has a weekly meeting with Obama. A union thug has a weekly audience with the pope! They spent $60 million getting Obama elected, and what [...]

I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily.- Michael Jackson
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.- Michael Jackson
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. [...]

On his outing overall tonight: “You know I was pretty nervous going into today, I’m not going to lie. More of a nervous, anxious feeling, I was just really excited to be up here at Double-A. I came out throwing strikes, but in the second and third I just wasn’t getting ahead of hitters. I [...]

The Calman Commission review of Scottish devolution has published its long-awaited final report, which includes a call for Holyrood to take charge of half the income tax raised in Scotland.
Here is some of the main reaction to the body’s findings:
SIR KENNETH CALMAN, CHAIRMAN, CALMAN COMMISSION
Our radical and innovative proposals to introduce a new Scottish rate [...]

Mike Lee named it pointguardpalooza yesterday, and it lived up to its name this afternoon. Not only were three of the best point-guard prospects in the country live in Verizon (Steph Curry, Jonny Flynn, and Brandon Jennings), they all spent many minutes rapping with a huge D.C. media contingent, and they were all quotable, [...]

Texas High Plains cash grain markets closed mostly 49 cents lower on grain sorghum, mostly 10 cents lower to 4 cents lower on wheat, 49 cents lower on soybeans and 24 cents lower to 15 cents lower on corn.
Prices paid or bid to the producer f.o.b. elevator as of 3:00 p.m. Grain sorghum quoted per [...]

Uttar Pradesh is probably going to be the first state in the country to reserve 97 percent seats in two medical colleges for the SC/ST and OBC students, on the plea that the colleges have been established under a Special Component Plan (SCP).
These colleges are in Kannauj and Jalaun districts, political fiefdoms of Samajawadi Party [...]

Story line continues: Tony Stewart continues to impress in his dual roles of driver and owner. He won the Sprint All-Star Race. Two weeks later he took the Sprint Cup point lead. Now he’s won the team’s first point race.
Nice work, mate: Marcos Ambrose managed a sixth-place finish, third best of his career.
Been a while: [...]

“I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.”
PRESIDENT OBAMA, [...]