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Et tu, Cavuto? Hey faux and other globalist networks: One of the primary reasons we elected Trump is because he's a fighter for freedom, for America and for our constitution! He's not a wimp and does not rollover for the enemedia or the globalist GOPe ruling class!! Dear Mr. President, We're behind you all the way against the treasonous leftist fakenews media and the turncoat GOPe RINOs!! Damn the media torpedoes, full speed ahead!! Fight, baby, fight!! Cut, baby, cut!! Drain the swamp!! MAGA!!

Former Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Smith was accused of murdering four men over the course of a decade, and he was convicted Thursday for three of those killings.

Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has died at 82, with the team's website posting a simple tribute with his name in large silver letters, saying "the Raider family will issue a statement later today."

There are lots of Republicans who will vote for the candidate they think can beat either Senator Clinton or Obama in November. "Just win, baby," is Al Davis' memorable phrase, and the need to keep the White House in center-right hands during the war and as four to six Supreme Court vacancies looms matters more than any particular issue. The GOP voter who wants the best shot looks at McCain and Thompson and thinks "Bob Dole." They look at Huck and think "We'd lose 45 states, maybe more." They wonder where Rudy went and if he'll be back. In Iowa...

A graphic popped up on James Gundlach’s television during an Auburn football game in the fall of 2004, and he could not believe his eyes. One of the university’s prominent football players was being honored as a scholar athlete for his work as a sociology major. Professor Gundlach, the director of the Auburn sociology department, had never had the player in class. He asked the two other full-time sociology professors about the player, and they could not recall having had him either. So Professor Gundlach looked at the player’s academic files, which led him to the discovery that many Auburn...

Founded in 1929 to unite the country after Mexico's revolution, the PRI ruled by accepting all ideologies. It catered to unions, the rich, the poor -- anyone who would support it. Its platform was maintaining power." - Associated Press, Sunday, June 25, 2006 I've been thinking the past few weeks about the conservative movement and the idea of winning versus merely staying ahead -- a strategy seemingly employed at the national level to ensure that the Republicans maintain the majority. Notice none of the political pundits are talking about Republicans trying to pick up seats this election cycle. They're merely...

MEMPHIS - An Alabama booster convicted of bribing a high school coach to get a top recruit for the Crimson Tide was killed in his home after a fierce, bloody struggle, police said Tuesday. Police had not confirmed the body was that of Logan Young, but his defense attorney said it was the 65-year-old Memphis resident. Police were not sure how he was killed, but investigators found "a lot of blood," police Sgt. Vince Higgins said. "The nature of the attack was brutal," Higgins said. "The entire house is a crime scene." Higgins said there were signs of a struggle...

O.K. Here's the deal.I met with Ambassador Prosper last night, and he appears to be the PERFECT candidate to be California's new Attorney General, or possibly even to replace Dianne Feinstein as our Senator. Either way, we will have a HUGE uphill fight -- since his is not yet a household name -- so we will need to generate as much FREE publicity as we can get, to help get the word out about this EXTRAORDINARILY well-qualified candidate.One way to do this might be to get more name recognition by working with his non-traditional LAST NAME: "Prosper." In particular, I...

With Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court, George Bush has touched off a conservative hurricane that is snapping political power lines across the Beltway as this is written. On Wednesday, the anti-Bush tempest blew into the Senate, which by a 90-9 margin voted to impose Marquess of Queensberry rules on interrogations of terrorist detainees. All those Republican defections mean that the first clear victim of the Miers nomination is the president's freedom to wage war on terror. There will be others. How did this run out of control so fast? We'll start, before the match was struck, with the...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The arrest of two high school football players is causing a lot of controversy in Collin County. Collin County sheriff's deputies arrested Lionel Bayiha and Nathan Dawson in Anna on Friday night as the Leonard team bus arrived for the game between the schools' football teams. The teens were arrested on assault charges stemming from a fight after a game the week before. One man, 19-year-old David Garcia, was reportedly injured in that fight after being struck in the head with a metal bar. Garcia was reportedly hosting a party at his house in Blue Ridge...

WASHINGTON - Former University of Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer endorsed Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Carson in the U.S. Senate race on Thursday, saying Carson was "a good Oklahoma conservative." Excerpt from: NewsOK.com: Carson Wins Switzer's Backing

ATLANTA (AP) -- With plenty of incentive, Rafael Furcal made sure the Atlanta Braves' season lasts at least two more games. Set to report to jail once the postseason ends, Furcal hit a two-out, two-run homer in the 11th inning that sent the Braves over the Houston Astros 4-2 Thursday and tied their NL playoff series at one game each. With Houston on the verge of a commanding lead, the Braves rallied from a late two-run deficit to force extra innings. Both teams went to extraordinary means -- the Astros looking to go two-up in the best-of-five series, the Braves...

4 BYU Football Players Accused of Rape Aug. 20, 2004 A 17 year old girl accuses four BYU football players of rape. So far, no arrests have been made, but the news has had a chilling effect on the entire BYU campus...especially on the football field at practice this morning. Sam Penrod is live in Utah County with some disturbing details that are starting to come out. The football team had its morning practice and it was an entirely different mood than yesterday, before these allegations became public, and these court documents spell out in very graphic detail the allegations...

Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden has faced criticism for what he has said or for his decisions during football games. He now is in hot water over something he has written. Last month, Bowden wrote a letter of reference for former FSU running back Michael Gibson, who received six life sentences in 1994 for his attack on a woman in late 1993. The woman was raped, robbed, shot and left for dead in her apartment.... Gibson received six life sentences: four for rape, one for armed burglary and one for attempted felony murder. But the Florida Supreme Court recently ruled...

NORMAN, Okla. -- A University of Oklahoma football player will play in the Alabama game Saturday despite being arrested and ticketed after failing to stop at a stop sign. Safety Brandon Everage was cited for disregarding a stop sign at 24th Avenue S.E. and Alameda Street in east Norman about 10 a.m. Friday. He also received citations for driving without a valid driver's license, transporting an open container of alcohol, not having insurance verification and driving with an expired tagZ, said Lt. Tom Easley, a spokesman for Norman police. Everage, 22, of Granger, Texas, told police he ran the stop...

Baylor University player Patrick Dennehy was slain after he decided to expose improprieties in the school's basketball program, says a lawsuit filed here Friday by his biological father. Athletic department officials and university officials not associated directly with the athletic program would not listen to his concerns, the suit said. "Patrick determined it would be up to him to expose the improprieties ... to stop what was going on," said the state district court suit filed by Patrick Dennehy Sr., 44, of Seattle. "Shortly after making that decision, Patrick became the target of violent threats against his person and soon...

Ok, McClintock bots: I'm fed up with you torpedoing the chances for a Republican to be elected Governor of California. Don't you realize that you're screwing up supporting a long-shot like Tom McClintock??? Don't you realize you'd be handing this recall to the Dems in a silver platter??? These are my reasons why, if I lived in CA, I'd support Arnold: 1) The chances of a hardcore conservative Republican being elected governor of California are slim to none: Might as well wait for a Green Party governor in Utah. 2) You could accuse me of compromising, but it's better a...

<p>Granted, there is upheaval in the world and there are battles where a great deal is at stake -- life itself. All the more precious, then, the minor skirmishes on the home front that mean a great deal in a small way and remind us of how lucky we are to feel innocent hatreds, from summer to summer, at the ballpark.</p>

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