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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, was the target of a swatting call that sent the Lee County SWAT team to a family residence on Christmas evening, reports WRBL, a Chattahoochee Valley TV station. Swatting is a form of harassment that involves a false report of an ongoing emergency or threat of violence intended to prompt an immediate tactical law enforcement response to the target’s address. The FBI started using the term in 2008. The scene at the residence owned by Tuberville’s wife was cleared quickly without any problems, according to the station. Neighbors told WRBL that the street was blocked,...

The Senate Rules Committee advanced a resolution that could allow the consideration of 350 nonpolitical military promotions at one time, bypassing Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) blockade of nominees in protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy. The vote was 9 to 7, with all Democrats voting to advance the proposal and all Republicans voting against it. One Republican voting via proxy was not counted in the final breakdown. The plan would allow senators to change procedure temporarily without making a permanent rule change and could allow most of the stalled promotions to be considered on the floor in large batches. Major...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on hundreds of military promotions in opposition to the Defense Department’s abortion policy. During an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," DeSantis was asked whether the Alabama Republican should stop holding up military nominees over a new Pentagon policy that covers travel expenses for service members who need to go out of state to have an abortion. "No, I don’t... They are funding abortion tourism, which is not an appropriate thing for the military to be doing," DeSantis said. "So I think our Republicans in the Congress should just...

Please place your predictions, traditions, comments, jabs, and jokes on this thread for the 2004 Auburn/Alabama game...This is the thread...