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A source on the Rick Perry campaign tells Hot Air that the Texas governor conducted some Texas-size fundraising in the third quarter. Coming in just a little over halfway through, Perry raised $17.1 million. That number would put Perry somewhere between $4-6 million ahead of Mitt Romney’s rumored total for Q3, according to this report last week from the Boston Globe. It’s also likely to far outpace Herman Cain’s fundraising or that of the other Republicans currently in the race. The pace is even more impressive. Perry had 49 days in which to raise funds, rather than the full 92...

Worth the read! By Robert A. Hall, former Massachusets Senator I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of...

Here’s his latest Tweet “Just finished hours of transcripts and tapes. The tides change beginning 2 morrow AM radio-full boat tv.Huge story!- 41 mins. ago

The courts have deliberated over the Second Amendment for some time and it has been confirmed that individual gun ownership rights are indeed provided for in the amendment. Americans' right to own firearms is no longer in question. Today, the bigger issue is what to make of concealed carry laws. In the U.S., only Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., don't allow any type of concealed carry. Every other state has joined the majority faction after seeing the benefits that can come from allowing citizens to lawfully carry firearms. Concealed carry laws prove their worth all the time, such as when...

Joy from rescue of 5 Aggie boaters turns grim when 6th member of capsized boat crew is found dead amid wreckage A day that started with the joyous rescue of five crew members of a Texas A&M University at Galveston sailboat closed with the somber discovery of the sixth sailor's body in the wreckage of the sunken ship. Roger Stone, whose body was recovered by a salvage crew Sunday about 27 miles southeast of Freeport, was called a hero for helping two students escape from below decks seconds before the Cynthia Woods capsized. "I'm sure that's what lost his life,"...

There have been many sites crop up recently that claim to predict what will happen in November. My favorite since 2004 - and I think the most accurate - has been Election Projection. They predicted the 2004 race between Bush and Kerry to within 3 EVs of the actual result and got every Senate race right in 2006. Anyone out there agree? Disagree? Discuss...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's Kurdish president backed his Shiite allies Wednesday by openly supporting a militia that Sunni Arab leaders have accused of killing members of their minority. Clashes in Baghdad and other attacks around Iraq killed at least eight people as the Sunni-dominated insurgency pressed on with its campaign against the Shiite-led government. The bloody wave of violence that broke out after the April 28 announcement of Iraq's new Shiite and Kurdish dominated government has killed more than 874 people. During the spree, more than 10 Sunni and Shiite clerics have been killed in apparent tit-for-tat slayings that raised...

The Next Stage Gates ends duties at A&M with ceremonies By HOLLY HUFFMAN Eagle Staff Writer Texas A&M University senior Caley Langewalter stood silent and still, his arms folded behind his back, as he prepared for the commissioning ceremony that would transform him from student to second lieutenant. Standing on the stage just a few feet away was Robert Gates - outgoing A&M president, newly confirmed secretary of defense and soon to be one of Langewalter's top bosses. Both Langewalter and Gates had started their tenure in Aggieland in the fall of 2002 - Langewalter as an Aggie freshman and...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2006 -- When Army met Texas A&M on the Aggie’s home turf Sept. 16, 100 servicemembers and their guests were in the stands, thanks to the Bank of America Military Bank in San Antonio. Kirk D. Frady, vice president, Bank of America Military Bank, (left) presents the Soldier and Family Assistance Center’s program manager, Judith Markelz, (center) with 100 tickets for the Sept. 16 Army-Texas A&M football game. Markelz distributed the tickets, and others that were donated, to servicemembers recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Others present to share...

IT IS the axis of evil most feared by the security services - veteran, cool-headed Irish terrorists teaming up with Islamic extremists. Now, in the wake of the failed bid to blow up 10 transatlantic aircraft, the Sunday Express has pieced together the links between the two groups that signal a new era of terror. There is also a further potent mix to the pot - former special forces' soldiers-turned-mercenaries from Britain and the US who are willing to sell their deadly expertise to the highest bidder. The Sunday Express has learned: Continuity IRA terrorists have visited Iran and Syria...

Longtime WBAP-AM morning host Hal Jay is recuperating in a Fort Worth hospital after suffering a "massive" heart attack Sunday during a family excursion to Possum Kingdom Lake, he told listeners Tuesday morning. <-snip-> He said the prognosis was good, and he hoped to head home Wednesday and be back on the air next week.

Try placing a year on this scenario: a crusty, old-line newspaper teams up with an equally risk-averse broadcasting outfit, to provide a full time outlet for reporters to discuss their stories on the AM radio dial. What era do you think we'd be talking about here, the fifties? At best, the sixties? How about 2006! Yes, the Washington Post, notorious print media fossil, has teamed up with Bonneville Broadcasting to provide "Washington Post Radio" on 1500 AM, until now home to WTOP-AM news radio. Secondarily, its programming will also be heard on 107.7 FM, with its very limited signal reach.....................

An Aggie walks into a bar with a little pink piglet under his arm. The barkeep says "Where did you get that?" The pig replies; "College Station! There's THOUSANDS of them!

Despite new management assertions to the contrary, two KVI/Seattle talk show hosts believe a July court ruling now prevents them from discussing a key November statewide ballot initiative on the airwaves. In a stunning decision, a Thurston County, Washington judge forced organizers of Initiative 912 to report, as in-kind campaign contributions, favorable comments made by KVI hosts Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson. Backers of I-912, which seeks to repeal a statewide gas tax hike, were required to place a dollar value on talk radio's supportive statements....(snip) ....Despite the August sackings of its key participants, one of sports talk's most peculiar...

Families try to revive lawsuit over deadly 1999 bonfire collapse PLANO – The families of those killed or injured when a bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M University several years ago asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to revive their lawsuit. Attorneys representing 11 deceased and injured wanted the court to reconsider a lower court's May 2004 decision that dismissed the suit. The families allege the university failed to oversee the 59-foot bonfire, resulting in a "state-created danger." The judge who dismissed the case in May said the concept of "created danger" did not exist in 1999....

Editor's note: This is the first story in an occasional series looking at Texas A&M University's efforts to recruit and retain minority students. Colleges and universities across the state are grappling with how to enroll 600,000 new students, mostly minorities, by 2015 to mirror the state's changing demographics. COLLEGE STATION - Jacob Tadesse arrived eight days before the start of classes at Texas A&M University and, like many freshmen, soon felt alone. So he left the sterile coolness of his dormitory room that first night without a destination in mind. Wearing a baggy T-shirt and shorts, with his black hair...

Nikola Tesla: Unsung genius or raving loony? The history of technology is populated with a marvellous cast of characters. On the one hand you have the colourful, hard-working inventors like Thomas Edison who slaved away morning, noon and night to produce many of the wonders that we take for granted such as the incandescent light, the telephone, and the garlic peeler. On the other you have the moonbat crazies who show up at the patent office with a cardboard box stuffed with wires and a torch battery claiming that they've made contact with John Kerry's charisma. And then there is...

Israel May Use New Weapon on Settlers Friday, June 10, 2005 JERUSALEM — Israel (search) is considering using an unusual new weapon against Jewish settlers who resist this summer's Gaza Strip (search) evacuation — a device that emits penetrating bursts of sound that leaves targets reeling with dizziness and nausea. Security forces could employ the weapon to overcome resistance without resorting to force, their paramount aim. But experts warn that the effects of prolonged exposure are unknown. The army employed the new device, which it dubbed "The Scream," at a recent violent demonstration by Palestinians (search) and Jewish sympathizers against...

Cotton stripped from Tech seal BY ELLIOTT BLACKBURN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Texas Tech may face a fight from cotton farming alumni after the school announced Wednesday it would pluck the symbolic tufts of the West Texas crop from the school seal. The changes are part of a broader marketing campaign to be launched early next year that Tech officials hope will improve the university's national reputation. Chancellor David Smith refuted rumors Wednesday that the school was abandoning its past for the marketing effort. A-J File Photo "It is not undoing tradition, it is not undoing pride," Smith said of the changes. "We...

Five people were taken to local hospitals for injuries SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, March 16, 2005 — A large, shapeless mound of sand was all that was left Tuesday evening from a sand sculpture of Jesus that might have been the cause of a large beach disturbance. Although the cause of a beach brawl reportedly involving hundreds of Spring Breakers remained in dispute Tuesday night, police said five people were taken to local hospitals for injuries they had received. Another six people were treated and released at the scene. South Padre Island Police Chief Robert Rodriguez said the disturbance started shortly...

I Am A Conservative Christian, And The Religious Right Scares Me by Chuck Baldwin For those readers who are unfamiliar with my biography (http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.sketch.html), let me here provide a thumbnail sketch of my conservative bona fides: I attended, graduated, or received degrees from fundamentalist Christian schools such as Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, Thomas Road Bible Institute (now known as Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University) in Lynchburg, Virginia, Christian Bible College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida. I am currently in my thirtieth year as the Senior Pastor of the Crossroad Baptist...

He's just a walk-on. Number 39 in your program, zero in your heart. Means nothing to you. Just another sadly spotless jersey on the sideline. So how is it that Josh Amstutz is the toughest, bravest and most inspirational member of Texas A&M's football team? Well, look at his right leg. There are two scars left by a bullet that passed through it almost two years ago, a gift from an Iraqi sniper. How he runs on it as well as he does is anybody's guess. Look at his jaw. It was stern and square enough for the Marine honor...

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Radio vet John Dayl back on the air tonight on a new home on KFNX Newstalkradio 1100 Phoenix. Show airs 6-8p AZ time... worth listening to. You can stream at www.1100kfnx.com Station also features Charles Goyette and Bob Mohan, old KFYI hosts

A zero tolerance policy is keeping one A&M Consolidated student from participating in graduation. But many of his classmates say he did the right thing when he told a teacher he had forgotten about hunting rifles left in his vehicle. College Station administrators were faced with a tough decision this week when a student accidentially forgot two hunting rifles were in his vehicle at school. But a state law calling for zero tolerance pratically made the decision for them. "State law was pretty clear. If a student brings a fire arm to school, the student shall be expelled from school,"...

Workers at the English National Opera have been banned from using the term of endearment "darling" to each other. "The policy, set out in a document called Dignity at Work, singles out the word 'darling' as part of a code of conduct which addresses workplace protocol. It tells employees: 'The use of affectionate names such as 'darling' may constitute sexual harassment.'". A grievance procedure is available for those who are made uncomfortable by hearing the word. ("'Darling' ban for opera workers", BBC, Apr. 22). A spokesman, however, said there was a grandfather clause: "Existing staff who call each other 'darling'...

Florida Atlantic Terror UniversityBy Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | February 19, 2004 Introduction In the summer of 2002, a flyer vilifying Jews and Christians and threatening “confrontation and conflict” was circulated around the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) campus.  It stated:  “When we Arab-Muslim students came to America for study, we had no idea that we would be forced to mingle with Jew students and take instruction from Jew teachers.  This is offensive to us since it is well known that the Jews are the most corrupt and violent people on Earth.” The flyer, which was put out by a group calling...

Defense Department officials tried to put DoD's best foot forward in attracting minority students to seek careers in the department at Florida A&M University here Feb. 18-19. DoD held a career exposition Feb. 18 for middle school, high school and college students to see presentations and visit exhibits set up by the military academies, ROTC programs and civilian internship programs. Feb. 19 featured a symposium, during which DoD officials discussed critical minority representation issues in ROTC and internship programs, as well as long-term concerns, with presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority-education leaders. Charles S. Abell, principal...

In a frightening moment when reality radio turned all too real yesterday morning, motorist Cheryl Picker of Shoreham was debating the Michael Jackson sexual-abuse case on the air when her sport utility vehicle was hit and rolled over on the William Floyd Parkway. Picker had just finished telling radio talk-show host Curtis Sliwa, "Maybe those are the parents that are the pedophiles," when listeners to WABC/770 AM heard a loud crash, the sound of crackling glass, tearing metal and then silence. "Cheryl, are you OK?" co-host Ron Kuby said. "Cheryl? Cheryl?" A faint voice responded, "Please call the cops." Sliwa...

COLLEGE STATION -- Citing his belief that individuals should be judged only by their merit, Texas A&M University President Robert Gates bucked the nation's higher education establishment Wednesday by announcing the school would not use race as a factor in admissions or scholarships. The decision came as a surprise to many students because A&M has for many years been desperately trying to attract more minority students and shed its reputation as inhospitable to those groups because of its long history as an all-male military academy. This fall, 82 percent of A&M's undergraduates are white, 2 percent are black, 9 percent...

Conservative students at Texas A&M University are outraged that the school president implied they made racist remarks and the athletic director accused them of hurting the football team by protesting affirmative action. The Young Conservatives of Texas student group sent open letters Tuesday to A&M President Robert Gates and Athletic Director Billy Byrne demanding they apologize for their "false and defamatory accusations." "Their irresponsible actions are unacceptable from anybody, especially high-ranking university administrators," wrote David Rushing, an A&M graduate and Southern Methodist University law student who chairs the statewide YCT organization. "Thee-mails sent by Dr. Gates and Mr. Byrne only...

The Texas A&M football team has just finished a dreadful season, going 4-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12 conference, including a 77-0 humiliation at the University of Oklahoma. Texas A&M's athletic director, Bill Byrne, has a novel theory as to why his school is suffering athletically. He blames the Young Conservatives of Texas A&M, a student group, which held one of those "affirmative action bake sales": "Free speech is not an issue for me, and differing political beliefs are not an issue for me, because I believe that reasonable people can disagree. But I'm disappointed over the national...

  Kennedy To Receive Bush Public Service Award      COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 - The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced that United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy would receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus on November 7. Former President Bush will present the award to the Massachusetts Democrat, who will join former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Bush Award recipients. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the...

Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station By Chris Bellamy Media Credit: kevin buehler / The Daily Utah Chronicle My two colleagues and I were terrified as we stumbled upon the worshipping ground of the Texas A&M football faithful. I tried to escape. Honest, I did. But believe me when I tell you, I didn't know what the hell was going on. What was happening around me was dumbfounding, disturbing, frightening. I don't know what it was that compelled me to stay. Maybe it was fear. Maybe it was my obscene sense of curiosity. Maybe it was the smell. Whatever...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — Four teenagers charged with beating a 16-year-old boy to death plotted the killing for weeks and listened to the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" (search) several dozen times before the murder, according to an alleged confession read in court.</p>

Our country has witnessed its fair share of trials and tribulations lately. We have endured wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have lived under the near-constant threat of terrorist attack at home. Many young Americans have heard the call to serve and, stirred by love of country and a deep sense of patriotic duty, they have responded. Some have served in the Army, others in the Marines. As for myself, I have served Coors Light. I am proud to serve my country beer. Our nation nobly faces any challenge with chins out and backs straight. We don't back down, no...

Israel's first aid rescue service already moved command and communications centers to bomb proof facilities..developing

Date: Posted 10/7/2002 Texas A&M Agriculturists Set Framework To Safeguard Food Supply COLLEGE STATION - Agricultural experts with Texas Cooperative Extension have created a process to help local jurisdictions across the nation assess the vulnerability of the food supply for terrorist attacks. The assessment guideline has gone forward to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Justice, which are expected to recommend its implementation nationwide, according to John Guido, National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center program director. The training center, an agency of the Texas Engineering Extension Service, would assume responsibility for training localities across the...