By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Collin McHugh pitched two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings for the Mets in his major league debut, but the Colorado Rockies completed their second straight four-game sweep of New York with a 1-0 victory Thursday as Jordany Valdespin misplayed Tyler Colvin's leadoff drive in the eighth into a game-changing triple.
The "highly personal, often bitter animosity existing between senior White House officials and senior Asia players at State" is how one of Washington's nonpareil foreign-policy insider newsletters, Chris Nelson's eponymous Nelson Report, describes the forces at the bottom of the Obama administration's latest national security crisis: whether to sell 66 new F-16 fighters to Taiwan to replace unsafe Vietnam War-era F-5 jets.
Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was not in the lineup Friday due to soreness in his left hip.
For nearly a decade, Mark Ellis dutifully followed the rules in Oakland by donning white shoes.
For nearly a decade, Mark Ellis dutifully followed the rules in Oakland by donning white shoes.
The Colorado Rockies bolstered their infield by acquiring veteran second baseman Mark Ellis from the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
Authorities said Monday it was a miracle that a pilot survived a plane crash without injuring 17 people inside two houses clipped by the plane's wings and set afire in a northern Utah town.
Taiwan and China recently signed a new economic agreement, but on the island across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait from the mainland, a political debate is under way over just how close is too close for comfort.
"Rather we have been repeatedly urged ... please make clear that the decision should be seen as about A/B retrofitting only ... and not a 'no' on C/Ds."
The insider Nelson Report newsletter, written by former Hill staffer Chris Nelson, reported on Friday that it has "passed on unofficial administration requests not to write about the [F-16] A/B decision as an explicit 'no' to C/Ds."
