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Loyola Marymount University 149 University of Michigan 115 Do you ever get tired of watching teams walk the ball up the court and work the offense for the high percentage shot? Here's a little relief for you. Paul Westhead's offense was designed to get off a shot in less than 7 seconds. His full court, pressure defense was designed to force the other team to keep the ball in motion, to run even if they didn't want to. Michigan was the defending champion. Loyola Marymount led the nation in scoring, 122 points per game, and were motivated to perform at...

–Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco posted a video on Friday criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new Regional Stay at Home Order. “The dictatorial attitude toward California residents while dining in luxury, traveling, keeping his business open, and sending his kids to in-person private schools is very telling about his attitude toward California residents, his feelings about the virus, and it is extremely hypocritical,” Bianco said. “I believe that all jobs are essential to someone.” Bianco said he would not be “blackmailed,” with the threat of losing state funding, into enforcing the governor’s orders. Bianco went on to ask residents to...

SHINDAND AIR BASE, Afghanistan – During the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2010, more than 90 Italian and Afghan National Army soldiers sat huddled together on CH-47 Chinooks, preparing themselves for an air assault mission on an objective that had been identified as a potential “insurgent hot bed,” said the air mission commander, Lt. Col. Ronald G. Lukow, the commanding officer of Task Force Comanche, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. “The aim of the operation was to capture an insurgent leader and insurgent leaders generally operate with their own security,” Lukow said. “We knew that there was...

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Prop 1 - Unaffordable Housing Bonds: NO. A hallmark of leftist governments is sky-high housing prices as regulations force up costs and restrictions choke off supply. Instead of addressing the cause, California’s leftists are asking you to cough up $4 billion (about $700 per household in interest and principal) to make low interest loans to the very people they’ve priced out of the market. (Or you can save the money, move to a Republican state and get twice the house at half the price.) Prop 2 – Hopeless AND Homeless: NO. California levies a surcharge on millionaires, because, hey, when...

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Proposition 51 - Add $1,400 To Your Credit Card Balance: NO. When Jerry Brown calls a measure fiscally irresponsible, well, my God! This $9 billion bond measure will cost $17.6 billion ($1,400 per household) to repay over the life of the loan. The bond is for local schools, and a big chunk of it is for routine maintenance. This violates basic principles of sound borrowing. First, statewide bonds should be for statewide purposes; local schools should be paid for with local bonds. Otherwise, we end up robbing Piedmont to pay Pasadena. Second, bonds should be for capital projects with a...

California legislators have approved a bill targeting cow flatulence and manure, which lawmakers blame for releasing greenhouse gases. The legislation aims to reduce methane emissions related to manure to 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030. Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) authored the bill, which passed shortly before the end of the legislative session. Lara agreed to a compromise that will give dairy farms more time to comply with the new regulations. Critics have expressed concerns the new regulations will result in an increase in the price of milk from California cows. Proponents of the bill say methane emissions have...

The California Legislature's nonpartisan analyst estimates the state's pollution tax has raised gasoline prices by 11 cents per gallon and diesel prices by 13 cents, according to a month-old letter released on Thursday... Consumers may not have noticed much impact at the pump because the pollution tax came at a time when gas prices were plummeting... A large portion of the money is dedicated to California's high-speed rail line...

If you haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh's speech at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in 2009, you should put it at the top of your must do list. If you have listened to it but not recently then do yourself a favor and listen to it again. It is an inspirational definition of conservatism. He begins with this gem: "Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans....

WASHINGTON (CBS5) - An amendment that bars cities that do not fully assist with federal immigration enforcement, also known as "sanctuary cities," from funding has been approved by the House of Representatives. The amendment was added to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014. Rep. Matt Salmon of Mesa, R-Arizona 5th district, offered the amendment during a debate on the bill, and his amendment was adopted by a voice vote. Salmon emphasized the growing problem of sanctuary cities. "The reality is that sanctuary cities contribute to an ever bigger illegal immigration problem and should not benefit from federal...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services reported that more than $100 million in welfare benefits were issued to illegal alien parents for their native-born children in June and July alone, announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. The $100 million consists of nearly $40 million in CalWORKs (welfare) and $70 million in food stamps — representing 22% of all CalWORKs and food stamp issuances in the County. At this rate, the projected annual cost is more than $625 million. “With the $550 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, the total cost for illegal immigrants to...

More than 650 1940s-era buildings — once noisy and alive with the comings and goings of U.S. troops — will be demolished beginning this summer in a $20 million project that will clear away years of now-silent history Brig. Gen. Keith Jones gazed through the worn windows on row after row of battered and broken World War II-era barracks left standing at Camp Roberts and recalled their better days. “You were glad to have a roof over your head and shade from the sun,” he said. For years, motorists on Highway 101 have seen the jarringly empty ghost town on...

This talk by Professor Hawking is a unique opportunity to see him in person and be immersed in his mind’s world. Stephen Hawking will give a free talk entitled “My Brief History” on Tuesday, January 18, at 8:00 p.m. in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. Stephen Hawking is the Director of Research in the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Professor Hawking has given the world insights into the birth of the universe, the deaths of black holes, and the future of the human race. His worldwide bestseller A Brief...

Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Whitlock Jones folds up a crease-battered map of Vietnam that drapes his kitchen table in Canyon Country. He has to pick up his granddaughter from Rio Vista Elementary School. When he steps out the door of his suburban home and walks down Lakemore Drive to the school, his neighbors will have no idea there are two pieces of shrapnel from a bullet-shattered helicopter windshield still in his neck. Every day he’s reminded that the Vietnam War is still inside him — both figuratively and literally. Last month, after close to 40 years of war memories held...

Controversial cuts in water deliveries to farms in California's San Joaquin Valley appear to be "scientifically justified" but still in need of further study, elite scientists have concluded in a report to be issued Friday. In a politically sensitive study, the National Research Council determined two federal agencies had a "sound conceptual basis" for their actions protecting Chinook salmon, delta smelt and other endangered fish. The conclusion undercuts a common farmer criticism. But the 65-page report may give some ammunition, as well, to those skeptical of water delivery restrictions imposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries...

California voters are fed up. And they should be. The quacks who occupy the chairs in the state Senate and Assembly have driven our state’s financial train to a wreck, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger has broken the tax-cutting promises that transformed him into the Governator. Maybe we should have seen his tag line coming: “I’ll be back — with a tax hike.” Now these jokers are asking you, the voters and taxpayers of this once-fine state, to enable their uncontrolled tax-and-spend binges, just as a friend or family member might enable an alcoholic before discovering Al-Anon. We say enough is...

Senate Democrats Working With Republicans Toward Budget Agreement Though No Final Deal Yet - No Tax Increases, Borrowing or Spending Cap Will Be In Plan With the California budget crisis continuing into its 74th day without a State budget, a possible budget deal is coming together in the State Senate, with Senate Democratic and Republican leaders agreeing on the broad outlines that could mean a budget agreement and a vote on a revised budget plan next week, possibly as early as Tuesday (September 16th). No details are available and nothing is final - and the situation is fluid and could...

Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France - The Cobra strikes on the first real mountain stage of the 2008 Tour de France - Vande Velde moves into third overall Riccardo Ricco (Saunier Duval-Scott) won the ninth stage of the Tour de France on Sunday in a bold solo assault, while Kim Kirchen (Team Columbia) finished safely with the bunch to retain the overall lead. It was the second stage win of the 95th Tour for the young Italian, who leapt away from the bunch on the Col d’Aspin and held a slim lead on the 26km run in to the finish. His first came...