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Southeast Gassers AssociationWelcome back to the SEGA 2021 tour!Winter wasn’t finished with Florida at the time of our season opener. Cold temps and frigid winds may have been uncomfortable for the crew and drivers, but it was perfect for making horsepower. The racers and their winter efforts were on full display with class records being shattered and massive wheel stands along with catastrophic parts failures were on center stage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5WJ9mqBsb0

olitics: Sen. Dick Durbin, who says Republicans have shoved attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch to the "back of the bus," once filibustered and opposed the GOP nominations of black and Latino appeals court judges. Last week, Durbin accused Republicans of forcing Lynch, President Obama's African-American nominee to replace Eric Holder, to "sit in the back of the bus" until a vote on a controversial sex trafficking bill could be held. That thinly veiled reference to the moment in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat in a Montgomery, Ala., bus was meant to paint Senate Republicans as...

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Truth is trampled in the street and judgment is turned around backward. Nothing inflames people to anger like perceived or real injustice. Throw in the tinder of a deteriorating economy in which millions of people are losing their homes, and raging unemployment, and the situation can become extremely ignitable. This was the firebox that the city of Oakland found itself in last Thursday. Around 2:30 p.m., word leaked that the verdict in the Johannes Mehserle murder trial would be read at 4 p.m.—the news set off a mass exodus of residents that was just short of resembling a panic, reported...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2005 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway was awash in patriotism May 22, just one week before 33 IndyCar drivers take to the oval in the annual Indianapolis 500 race. Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar administers the Oath of Enlistment to a group of 56 new recruits in the winner's circle at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 22. Photo by Samantha Quigley (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Armed Forces Day at the home of the "greatest spectacle in racing" included more than just military displays near the speedway museum. During an enlistment ceremony held in the winner's...

Government Ratings I was amused recently to see that the federal government has rated vehicles on their propensity to turn over. Their ratings are based on a math formula, not on a field test. But who needs the federal government to tell them the obvious? Anybody with sense enough to pour rain out of a boot knows that a tall vehicle will tip easier than one built low to the ground. After all, racing cars are not built low to the ground just for looks. Anytime a vehicle gets into a turn, centrifugal force and gravity have a contest. Gravity...

<p>SPANAWAY, Washington (AP) -- A team of more than a dozen men have been spending their weekends on a 39,000-horsepower dream: to shatter the world land-speed record of 763 miles per hour with a former jet plane on wheels.</p> <p>"The British have held the record for 20 years," said Ed Shadle, a retired IBM computer technician. "It's about time that a couple of boys from Pierce County bring it back to America."</p>