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  • Socialist Students at U. Texas San Antonio Try to Cancel Jordan Peterson Event

    07/03/2018 8:24:42 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 35 replies
    Legalinsurrection.com ^ | 7-3-2018 | Mike LaChance
    University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson has become a new favorite target of the left on American college campuses. Peterson defies the progressive narrative on gender, and other issues. For this, he is declared anti-LGBT.Peterson is slated to give a lecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, but a socialist student group is trying to get the event cancelled.Peyton Dillberg reports at Campus Reform: Socialist students seek to shut down Jordan Peterson eventA socialist student group at the University of Texas at San Antonio is promoting a petition demanding the cancellation of an upcoming lecture featuring Dr....
  • UKIP's Steven Woolfe seriously ill after party 'altercation'

    10/06/2016 5:26:35 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 22 replies
    sky.com ^ | October 6, 2016 | Sky News
    Sky sources say Steven Woolfe has suspected bleeding on the brain after being punched in the face by a fellow MEP. ...-A party spokesman said Mr Woolfe was "taken suddenly ill" in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg on Thursday morning.
  • Bonfire-Thousands gather...

    11/23/2006 6:45:37 AM PST · by urtax$@work · 52 replies · 1,276+ views
    Bryan Eagle ^ | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 | By MATTHEW WATKINS
    HEARNE - Paul Wartham made a three-hour drive from Fort Worth to College Station on Tuesday to watch a 45-foot bonfire burn, and when he learned he had to wait an hour longer than expected, he said he didn't mind. "I think that bonfire is great," said the 50-year-old whose two children attend Texas A&M University. "I didn't go to A&M, but I understand why.... go here to read rest of article: http://www.theeagle.com/stories/112206/am_20061122025.php
  • Reggie Bush appears to have been paid while at USC

    09/14/2006 6:24:52 PM PDT · by SmoothTalker · 119 replies · 1,137+ views
    "An eight-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has revealed that Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted financial benefits worth more than $100,000 from marketing agents while Bush was playing at the University of Southern California." " The benefits, which could lead to NCAA sanctions for USC and retroactively cost Bush his college eligibility and Heisman, were supplied by two groups attempting to woo Bush as a client. Current Bush marketing agent Mike Ornstein and one of Ornstein's employees were involved. So were Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake, who attempted to launch an agency called New...
  • My Daughter Will Be Starting University of Texas in September...

    04/22/2006 7:43:24 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 27 replies · 404+ views
    Vanity ^ | April 22, 2006 | Self
    Well, we just registered. We were down in Austin on Tuesday and Wednesday, did the tour and she fell in love with the campus, the town and the people. Just posted this to get any comments or advice from my Freeper colleagues who are Longhorn alumni and/or Texans who know about the school.
  • Longhorns head to White House (Aggies never will)

    02/10/2006 11:40:12 AM PST · by The South Texan · 24 replies · 424+ views
    San Antonio Express News | 2/10/06 | Jefff McDonald
    Football: Longhorns head to White House San Antonio Express-News President Bush will welcome national champion Texas to the White House on Tuesday, about a month after the Longhorns upset top-ranked Southern California in the Rose Bowl. The visit marks a reunion of sorts for Bush, who frequented UT sporting events while he was governor of Texas. Bush phoned congratulations to UT coach Mack Brown the morning after the Rose Bowl, but this will be the pair's first face-to-face meeting since the game. Also, the UT system Board of Regents approved plans to expand and renovate the Longhorns' football stadium, giving...
  • Victory can seal Trojans' legend

    01/04/2006 10:08:36 AM PST · by Dog Gone · 30 replies · 444+ views
    Cox News Service ^ | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 | TONY BARNHART
    LOS ANGELES — Knock off Texas tonight in one of college football's most anticipated games, and top-ranked Southern Cal can lay claim to something even more elusive than three consecutive national titles. Immortality."If USC wins this game, I think you have to put them up there with the greatest teams of all time," longtime ABC broadcaster Keith Jackson said. "I always thought the 1972 USC team was the best I ever saw. Then came Nebraska in 1995. If the Trojans win, they are right there."Others will go a step further. A win over Texas (12-0) in the Rose Bowl would...
  • Norwegians Confused by Bush Salute

    01/21/2005 2:44:28 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 83 replies · 1,810+ views
    Associated Press ^ | January 21, 2005
    OSLO, Norway (AP) - President Bush's ``Hook 'em, 'horns'' salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan. That's what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region. View Photo View Photo View Photo More Photos ``Shock greeting from Bush daughter,'' a headline in the Norwegian Internet newspaper Nettavisen said above a photograph of Bush's daughter Jenna, smiling and showing the sign....