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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cited former President Reagan in a pitch for a national security bill in a Wednesday opinion piece. “Today, much like in the Washington President Reagan faced, it has become popular in some circles to bet against American resolve and bemoan the global responsibilities that come with global power,” McConnell said in the op-ed in the Northern Kentucky Tribune. “Loud voices peddle the short-sighted and ahistorical notion that America’s interests do not extend beyond the water’s edge, and that abandoning our friends is the price of restoring order at home.” McConnell then said he and...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush, the former Rangers owner, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Texas plays the Arizona Diamondbacks in the World Series opener on Friday night. This will be Bush’s fourth World Series ceremonial first pitch but his first before an opener. Bush, 77. headed the group that bought the Rangers from Eddie Chiles in 1998 and was general partner through November 1994, when he stepped down as he prepared to become Texas governor. Bush was U.S. president from 2001-09 and threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will use a high-profile appearance at Ronald Reagan’s presidential library on Tuesday to lay out a vision for the future of a bigger-tent Republican Party, one that does not include former President Donald Trump. In prepared remarks shared with The Hill, Hogan will accuse Trump of leaving the GOP in its worst position since the 1930s, an era when Franklin Roosevelt consigned Republicans to deep minorities in both the House and Senate.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's (R) campaign on Monday released a minutelong video advertisement in an effort to drum up support from both conservatives and independents ahead of his 2022 reelection bid. “The last three years, Georgia’s been tested in ways we could never imagine,” the video says. “And it fell to Gov. Brian Kemp to successfully lead us during these troubling times.” The ad then touts Georgia as the top state for business and the lowest unemployment rate in state history while also saying Kemp backs law enforcement.

It was a late October night at a packed Yankee Stadium in 2001 as President George W. Bush was preparing to throw the first pitch before Game 3 of the World Series just weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Not sure how the country would react at the time, the president’s ceremonial pitch is still considered one of the brightest moments in one of the nation’s darkest times nearly 20 years later. Major League Baseball postponed all games in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. After a week of silence, games slowly resumed but the nation was...

Joe Biden will not be throwing out the Opening Day first pitch when the Washington Nationals face the New York Mets, the Washington Post reports.

Still smarting over his botched ceremonial pitch at the opening game between the Yankees and the Nationals, Dr. Anthony Fauci is open for a do-over at Citi Field, according to a report. WCBS 880 anchor Michael Wallace offered the nation’s top infectious diseases doctor the opportunity to try his hand on a mound again. “As you may know, we are the Mets station here in New York on WCBS, so my program director wanted me to let you know if you ever want to try a first pitch do-over at Citi Field, we could probably arrange that,” Wallace said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci threw a wild first pitch a week ago to open the MLB season during a pandemic. His pitch for the Yankees and Nationals game missed the plate by a safe social-distancing measure and he delivered a joke about it the next morning. Now, Fauci is giving a more detailed explanation of why his first pitch was so far off. It comes down to “a mishap on my part,” the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said. Fauci, 79, joked last week that he was a shortstop growing up and thought he was supposed to throw to first base....

President Trump announced Sunday he wouldn't be throwing out the opening pitch for the New York Yankees next month as he had planned, citing meetings and other work related to the U.S.'s COVID-19 outbreak. In a tweet, Trump said that he would plan to throw out the first pitch at a game later in the MLB's season, which began last week. "Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August...

The Washington Post is wailing about the environmental ruination of that great ecological wonder, the Canadian tar sands. Canada's Athabasca Basin holds more hydrocarbons (oil) than anyplace else in the world. It has a huge patch of tarry goo, the remains of a once-vast inland lake, spotted amongst 40,000 square miles of jack pine and black spruce growing amid mosquito-rich swamps. The same evergreen-and-swamp vista extends in a broad band for more than 2000 miles, from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the shores of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast. The Athabasca's population density is less...

 Diana Deutsch is a perceptual researcher who made discoveries about left-handedness and pitch perception. Her more important discovery is that people who grow up speaking tonal languages like Mandarin have a greater advantage in the pitch component of musicality. About left-handedness, her findings: 40% of the 10% of the population who are left handed, have a brain neurology that is just an opposite mirror of the 90% of right handers. 60% of left-handers, the people who have a higher proportion of perfect pitch, have “mixed hand preference”, in which they will switch off between hands for common tasks (switch hitters).  (My father broke his...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton promised on Saturday to fight for ordinary Americans who have been left behind as the economy recovers, appealing to working families at the first major rally of her 2016 White House campaign. Speaking on New York's Roosevelt Island, within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers, Clinton promised would "make the economy work for everyday Americans, not just those at the top" if elected president. The gathering of several thousand people cheered as Clinton said working people are asking why wealth is reserved for chief executives and hedge fund managers. "You have to wonder, when...

President Barack Obama unveiled his budget proposal at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., Monday morning, saying, “The main idea in the budget in this: At a time when our economy is growing and creating jobs at a faster clip, we’ve got to do everything in our power to keep this recovery on track." He said his proposals would “invest in the things that will help grow our economy right now. We can’t cut back on those things that are important for us to grow. We can’t just cut our way into growth. We can cut back on the

President Obama travels to North Carolina on Wednesday dogged by poor economic news, threats of resistance on the Hill, sagging poll numbers and Democratic losses in a pair of special House elections. If September, and more specifically the president’s jobs speech, was intended to be the start of a new phase of Obama’s presidency, there is precious little indication as of yet that anything at all has changed. -- FOR THE RECORD: Obama tour: An earlier version of this online article misstated the White House's assertions regarding any intended connection between President Obama's tour promoting his jobs package and his...

Below is the video of Barack Obama’s ceremonial first pitch. This year, he makes it to the catcher, but, as the president described it, he threw high and outside. Like his healthcare law, Obama’s attempt was weak, outside the strike zone, and far to the Left. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gvHAYlyrlM

I thought for sure I’d have a lot to make fun of here. But he actually did a decent job. I mean he got it across the plate, in the air. Sure it wasn’t close to the strike zone but I really don’t know how much better you could ask a guy, who wore mom jeans the last time he did it, to throw it. I give it a 7 out of 10. The release was a little high so it sailed on him but in the long run and with a little coaching he could probably strike out the...

WASHINGTON – In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep. That, in a sometimes darkly joking way, is what the president is telling Democratic House members as he begins an all-out push to coax Congress into passing his proposals despite voters' misgivings and Republicans' dire warnings. "He made the case, 'Listen, we put in a very hard year working...

Many gold companies use this ending line in their advertisements: "Gold has Never been worth Zero." Is that really the best ending sales pitch they could come up with? .

[Video] Mind you, Bush was throwing the ball out following 9/11, with the world and the nation watching. Expecting a show of American resolve. He didn't wear mom jeans, and threw a perfect strike. Obama? Well, not so much. He threw the ball like a six year old girl. He was even treated like a six year old girl with the catcher, Albert Pujols, moving in front of the plate. He still bounced the ball there. And then had the audacity to give the strike signal. As you will see, the "Obama Girl" threw a better pitch than Obama. [Video]...

U.S. President Barack Obama throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Major League Baseball's All-Star game in St. Louis July 14, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama embraces St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Albert Pujols after Obama threw the ceremonial first pitch prior to the start of Major League Baseball's All-Star game in St. Louis, July 14, 2009 Obama: "I love saying your name....hee hee....Poo holes....heheh..."