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SINGAPORE (AP) -- A former Florida State University football player may become the first American in 16 years to be caned in Singapore after he overstayed his visa, his lawyer said Thursday. Kamari Charlton, who was a reserve tight end for Florida State from 1992 to 1996, was arrested Sept. 1 when he attempted to leave the city-state 169 days after his 90-day social visit pass expired, attorney M. Ravi said. Charlton, who was born in the Bahamas and owns a construction company there, was in Singapore while his wife received medical care for pregnancy complications, Ravi said. It was...

VAT or Crock This particular levy is a European craze long looked upon with envy by American elites. For example, President Clinton recently gave an interview in which he waxed rhapsodic about the Value Added Tax (VAT), long a staple in most of the nations of Western Europe. “I think they ought to look at a progressive value-added tax, just because—and I think it’s important the American people understand this—most of our competitors have tax systems like this,” the former president told CNBC recently. “If you have a value-added tax … you lower the income taxes, corporate and personal, and...

The arrest of three fugitives in Miami has given police a major break in the disappearance of a Florida State University student in Tallahassee. Quentin Truehill, Peter Hughes and Kentrell Johnson, who escaped from a Louisiana jail on March 30th by forcing a guard to open a door at knifepoint, were arrested at a Budget Inn in Miami Monday night. The men then reportedly stole a 2006 Chevrolet 2500 extended-cab pickup truck from a house in Marksville, La. It was this truck that investigators found abandoned Monday at a Miami Beach park, along with receipts, a bloody knife and other...

The Clinton administration allowed It’s- Not- Easy- Being God Soros to run wild in the dying Soviet Union. The results were entirely predictable. Working in tandem with Strobe Talbott, Russian Policy Czar, they set about playing games with government funds. Soros reveled in having so much access to the Clintons and fancied himself part of the “Clinton team.” Clinton squandered the opportunity to help the Russian people form a healthy democracy and instead allowed Soros and his team to profiteer, leaving the country in shambles. (Horowitz, David and Poe, Richard. The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties...

Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after Florida State plays in a bowl game. Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State's Joe Paterno. The 80-year-old Bowden has won 388 games at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said Sunday he isn't planning on quitting anytime soon. That could leave school officials in a difficult situation. Florida State is 2-3 for the first time since Bowden's inaugural season at the school 33 years ago, and 0-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference for the first time, prompting questions about his future at a program he transformed into a collegiate powerhouse. After Saturday's 28-21 loss at Boston College, two Florida newspapers, including the hometown Tallahassee Democrat, said Bowden should call it a career at the end of this season. "The love...

Jim Smith is Gov. Charlie Crist’s likely pick to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, a key Republican source has told The Palm Beach Post. Smith, the FSU Board of Trustees chairman, is a former state attorney general and secretary of state. He sided with Crist’s GOP opponent, Tom Gallagher, in 2008, but his son-in-law, Brian Ballard, is a close ally of Crist’s. Smith Smith and Ballard were not immediately available for comment. Reasons the pick would make sense: Smith would not be likely to run for re-election and has an “elder statesman” profile that could earn Crist points for making...

...Elgin Nathan James, a self-proclaimed founding member of Boston-based FSU -- which stands for "Friends Stand United" -- was arrested on Monday by FBI agents at his Los Angeles home. The attempted extortion charge was then unsealed by the prosecutor's office in Chicago. FSU boasted in videos dating to 2004 about beatings it administered to punk music fans and performers. The aim was to establish control at clubs and concert venues and drive "Nazi skinheads" out, according to prosecutors. ...The victim and his friends were beaten and repeatedly threatened by FSU members while on tour in late 2005 and early...

Note: The following text is a quote: Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment on Internet Bomb Threats Hammond, IN—The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced that a three-count indictment was returned against Ashton Lundeby for his role in Internet bomb and related threats directed to Purdue University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ind., and numerous other educational institutions throughout the country. Lundeby, 16, of Oxford, N.C., was arrested by the FBI at his home in Oxford on March 6, 2009. A federal search warrant was also executed at that time. Lundeby was arrested pursuant to a...

Once again, Terrorism is being taught on the campus of Florida State University (FSU). Last month, FSU a school largely funded by state tax dollars, paid domestic terrorist (and just a guy from President-elect Obama's neighborhood) Bill Ayers $5,000 to speak at the school. School administrators invited the terrorist because they believe he is a "education reformer." I guess they feel that setting bombs and murdering people is an effective method of education (Ayers and his fellow terrorists planted bombs on the Capitol, Pentagon and other government buildings to protest U.S. policy, on 9/11/01 he was interviewed by the New...

Tax dollars in the State of Florida are being used to teach Kids that freedom of speech only applies to domestic terrorists. Florida State University, a school largely funded by state tax dollars, paid domestic terrorist (and just a guy from President-elect Obama's neighborhood) Bill Ayers $5,000 to speak at the school. School administrators invited the terrorist because they believe he is a "education reformer." I guess they feel that setting bombs and murdering people is an effective method of education (Ayers and his fellow terrorists planted bombs on the Capitol, Pentagon and other government buildings to protest U.S. policy,...

William Ayers, co-founder of the terrorist group the Weather Underground of the 1960s and 1970s has been invited to speak about "education" at Florida State University by the Institute for Liberal Studies, a student group that is paying his visit. January 12, 2009 in Oglesby Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. Topics that Ayers will not address: Obama and the Weather Underground Let's wee what the Flordia Freepers can do about that.

OMAHA, Neb. -- The beginning of the end for Fresno State's 2008 baseball team could have come on the opening weekend of the season, when the Bulldogs split a four-game series with UC Davis, a new NCAA Division I program. "Oh yeah. I was thinking ‘How did this happen?' I mean, we're supposed to be something this year," junior second baseman Erik Wetzel said. Perhaps now -- with Fresno having not only become the first No. 4 regional seed to make the College World Series but now about to play Georgia in the best-of-three championship series that begins Monday night...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Thirty-six Florida State players won't be going to the Dec. 31 Music City Bowl against Kentucky because of an academic cheating scandal, other violations of team rules or injuries. Linebacker Dekoda Watson, cornerback Patrick Robinson, who had six interceptions, and three top defensive tackles were among the players sidelined either as a result of the ongoing investigation into an academic cheating scandal at the school or some other violation of team rules. Bobby Bowden and Florida State will be without 34 players at the Music City Bowl. "It is very important that the media make clear that...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State offensive coordinator Jeff Bowden is stepping down. He resigned Tuesday, just three days after the Seminoles were shut out for the first time in 233 games. Athletic director David Hart Jr. says the resignation will be effective at the end of this season. Bowden, the youngest son of Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden, replaced now-Georgia head coach Mark Richt as the Seminoles' offensive coordinator in 2001. Florida State has its homecoming game Saturday against Western Michigan followed by the season finale on Nov. 25 against intrastate rival Florida. Bobby Bowden has stood by his...

Once upon a time, in a Florida far, far away, the lakes were translucent lagoons, teeming with fish and fowl. The landscape was a tropical Eden, saturated with guava fruit, papaya, coconut and mangoes. And, most importantly, the football fields were filled with magnificent touchdown prances and end zone dances. These days, something awful and alarming is happening to our beloved land. The lakes now teem with slime and sludge. The landscape is covered in strip malls and T-shirt shops. And, worst of all, the football fields are barren wastelands, devoid of offensive imagination and innovation. Who unplugged our scoreboards?...

Students constantly hear the conservative outcry against liberal professors in universities. “Why don’t they just teach the subject? Why are they trying to indoctrinate students with their ideological beliefs?” These are questions routinely asked by conservatives, who are concerned with what students are facing in college. However, after 3 years at Florida State University I had never encountered the typical liberal professor—not the ones you read about or see on television. I knew they existed; Ward Churchill and Jay Bennish were evidence to that fact. Sure, I had professors that were obviously liberal, and would make comments such as, “Jimmy...

During the early years of the Cold War, most Americans looked on China and the Soviet Union as a two-headed monster, separate nations but essentially the same Communist beast. It took a virtual war between the two for Washington to realize how deeply divided the Communist superpowers actually were -- and how that division might be played to America's advantage. Incipient tensions between the Soviet and Chinese Communists dated back to the 1930s, when Russia supported Chiang Kai-shek rather than Mao Tse-tung. In the early days of the People's Republic, Russia and China appeared to stand together. In 1950 Mao...

When Russian prosecutors opened a criminal case against journalist Vladimir Rakhmanov for writing a satirical Internet article calling President Vladimir Putin the nation's "phallic symbol," it raised eyebrows. But a case that began as an odd curiosity in Russia's Ivanovo Oblast is quickly becoming an international cause. Reporters Without Borders has taken up Rakhmankov's case as part of what it calls a campaign to preserve Internet press freedom in Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. With print and broadcast journalism already subject to heavy-handed state control, free-press advocates are increasingly looking to save the Internet as the region's...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Tom Nugent, who was credited with developing the I formation at Virginia Military Institute, died of congestive heart failure Thursday, his family said. He was 92. A member of the College Football Hall of Fame for his innovations, Nugent was also credited with creating the "typewriter" huddle where players stood in two rows rather than a circle while plays were being called. He was a head coach for 17 years, posting an 89-80-3 record before turning to broadcasting and public relations. He was 19-18-2 at VMI from 1949-52. During his six years at Florida State in...

Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel—but 250 times stronger—would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like something out of a science fiction novel. Yet one Florida State University research group, the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T), is working to develop real-world applications for just such a material. Dr. Ben Wang, a professor of industrial engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, serves as director of FAC2T (www.fac2t.eng.fsu.edu), which works to...

THe selection show is on at 6 PM. Pretty much the picks have been decided. There is only some doubt whether ND or Oregon gets the final at-large berth. 2005-2006 Bowl Matchups Past Bowl Projections: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11Means accepted bid WYNDHAM NEW ORLEANS BOWL - Lafayette, Louisiana December 20, 2005  ESPN Cajun Field, 30,000 Sun Belt No. 1 vs. C-USA CFN Projection: Arkansas State vs. Southern Missalso considered: Memphis, Houston POINSETTIA BOWL -...

Every preseason for 30 years, Coach Bobby Bowden has taken his Florida State football players to a church in a white community and a church in a black community in the Tallahassee area in an effort, he said, to build camaraderie. He writes to their parents in advance, explaining that the trips are voluntary, and that if they object, their sons can stay home without fear of retaliation. He remembers only one or two players ever skipping the outing. Since becoming the football coach at Georgia in 2001, Mark Richt, too, has taken his team to churches in the preseason....

Many Tallahassee hotels have told hurricane evacuees they'll have to move by the day of the FSU-Miami football game so that fan bookings can be honored. Hundreds of Katrina evacuees who fled to Tallahassee seeking refuge from the storm have been politely told by their hotels and motels to leave this weekend to make room for a football game: FSU vs. Miami. Hotel space is traditionally scarce any time the Florida State Seminoles take on the University of Miami Hurricanes, one of the choicest tickets on the college football schedule. But with hotels packed with families from Louisiana and Mississippi,...

There was never any doubt where the Seminole Tribe of Florida stood on Florida State University's nickname. The tribe helped university boosters create the costume for the Chief Osceola mascot, approving the face paint, flaming spear and Appaloosa horse that have no connection to Seminole history. Yesterday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association agreed with the 3,100-member tribe and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, which had also endorsed the nickname. The N.C.A.A. removed Florida State from the list of universities banned from using what it called "hostile and abusive" mascots and nicknames during postseason play. "The N.C.A.A. executive committee continues to...

Seminoles they will stay. The Florida State University athletic department celebrated a major victory on Tuesday when the NCAA announced it had removed FSU from its list of universities subject to restrictions on the use of Native American mascots and nicknames. Earlier this month, the NCAA told FSU and 17 other schools that their use of a Native American mascot and nickname was inappropriate, and that mascots deemed ''hostile or abusive'' would be prohibited from appearing on team uniforms during NCAA-sanctioned tournaments beginning in February 2006. FSU president T.K. Wetherell threatened legal action. The school appealed the NCAA ruling on...

The NCAA removed the Florida State Seminoles on Tuesday from a list of 18 college and university nicknames subjected to restrictions because of their hostility to American Indians. The NCAA said it was recognizing the relationship Florida State has long enjoyed with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which assists the university with its pageantry and celebration of its culture and supports the school's use of its name. "The staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor," the NCAA said Tuesday. "The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding...

Florida State was here just two weeks ago - seemingly on the cusp of a favorable decision by the NCAA regarding its Seminoles nickname and imagery. The NCAA said Friday that approval from a "namesake" tribe will be considered a primary factor when the review process begins next week for schools appealing the use of American Indian nicknames and symbols. That should be a positive development for FSU, one of 18 schools that the NCAA Executive Committee ruled on Aug.5 to have "hostile or abusive" nicknames, symbols or imagery. "We're very encouraged by (the NCAA) using the word 'namesake' tribe,"...

Americans are the thinnest-skinned creatures on the planet. Seems everything offends someone around here these days, and the reactions of "the offended" sometimes make me wonder if our nation has simply lost all of its collective common sense. First, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, better known as the NCAA, has decreed that every college and university with an Indian-based mascot will not be allowed to host post-season events since such use is degrading toward native Americans. This ban includes Florida State University. The fact the Seminole Tribe of Florida's governing council unanimously approved in mid-June a resolution in total support...

A non-Indian committee has decided that American Indians cannot bear the shame of an Indian mascot. The National Collegiate Association of Athletes, the latest great white father figure, has banned the use of American Indian mascots and logos during post-season games and tournaments. Put simply, if the Florida State Seminoles football team wins their division, they won’t be able to wear their official uniforms in any championship games after February 1, 2006. The use of Indian names, logos, or mascots is “abusive” and “hostile” toward Indians, say these non-Indian committeemen. Of course, they’re basing their theoretical righteousness on the presumptuous...

TALLAHASSEE - Florida State University on Friday challenged an NCAA order restricting the use of its cherished and lucrative Seminole symbols, saying its American Indian imagery "honors the bravery, courage, strength and determination of these people." FSU's strongly worded appeal chided the NCAA for a decision that was "seriously flawed and undemocratic" and ignored the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. FSU wants the NCAA to reverse itself by Aug. 29. FSU president T.K. Wetherell faxed a three-page letter to NCAA president Myles Brand, capping a week in which the school marshaled a show of political muscle from members...

Oklahoma Seminoles back FSU on mascot By TOM D'ANGELO Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 11, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — On the same day Florida State's Board of Trustees gave President T.K. Wetherell its support to fight the NCAA's ban on Native American mascots and nicknames, the university picked up a major ally. Ken Chambers, principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, the group the NCAA said was opposed to Florida State's use of the Seminole name, said Wednesday he does not have a problem with the use of Native American nicknames and mascots. A motion in July by...

A controversial NCAA decision restricting Florida State University's use of an American Indian mascot was based on incomplete information and will be reconsidered, a top NCAA official said Thursday. Walter Harrison, who chairs the committee that approved a policy directed at 18 schools with "hostile and abusive" American Indian mascots, said FSU has "good grounds" to appeal. Among the reasons, he said, are that the NCAA Executive Committee thought the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma opposed FSU's use of the Seminole image as a mascot. That was based partly on letters the committee received from David Narcomey, a member of the...

Gov. Jeb Bush criticized NCAA officials on Tuesday for their decision to penalize Florida State for using an American Indian nickname and symbols, saying they instead insulted the university and a proud Seminole Tribe of Florida. The NCAA's finding that the school's Seminoles nickname is "hostile and offensive," instead of honoring American Indians has the opposite effect, the governor said, because the tribe supports the school's use of its name. "I think it's offensive to native Americans ... the Seminole Indian tribe who support the traditions of FSU," Bush said on his way into a Cabinet meeting. "I think they...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State University doesn't plan to change its "Seminoles" nickname. The NCAA decided today to ban schools using Native American names and symbols from hosting championship events. But Florida State President T-K Wetherell says he'll sue the NCAA for its - quote - "outrageous and insulting" decision. Wetherell says - quote - "This university will forever be associated with the "unconquered" spirit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida." The NCAA decided to ban the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments. And nicknames or mascots deemed hostile or abusive won't be...

FSU to fight ban on Indian mascot The NCAA took action against the use of American Indian mascots and nicknames by college sports teams, and Florida State's Seminoles were incensed by the new rules that could affect FSU's teams and traditions. BY MICHELLE KAUFMAN Is Florida State University's nickname -- the Seminoles -- a tribute to the Indian tribe's indomitable spirit or an offensive racial stereotype? Depends on whom you ask. The NCAA on Friday banned the use of American Indian mascots and nicknames by 18 college sports teams -- including the FSU Seminoles -- during postseason tournaments beginning Feb....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State University doesn't plan to change its "Seminoles" nickname. The NCAA decided today to ban schools using Native American names and symbols from hosting championship events. But Florida State President T-K Wetherell says he'll sue the NCAA for its - quote - "outrageous and insulting" decision. Wetherell says - quote - "This university will forever be associated with the "unconquered" spirit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida." The NCAA decided to ban the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments. And nicknames or mascots deemed hostile or abusive won't be...

Florida State President T.K. Wetherell threatened to take legal action after the ruling. "That the NCAA would now label our close bond with the Seminole people as culturally 'hostile and abusive' is both outrageous and insulting," Wetherell said in a written statement. "I intend to pursue all legal avenues to ensure that this unacceptable decision is overturned, and that this university will forever be associated with the 'unconquered' spirit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida."

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Wyatt Sexton, the Florida State quarterback who was found disheveled and disoriented on a city street last month, has been diagnosed with Lyme disease and will miss the upcoming season, the university said Saturday. Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said the university would seek a sixth year of eligibility for Sexton, who has already used his redshirt season. He is the Seminoles' only experienced quarterback. "It looks like Wyatt will need several months of treatment and will have to miss the season," Bowden said in a statement. A specialist in the field of Lyme disease, Dr. S....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Suspended Florida State quarterback Wyatt Sexton was doused by pepper spray and taken to a hospital by police after he was found laying in the street and identifying himself as God.

GAINESVILLE Florida's Board of Governors voted 10-3 today to reject a proposed chiropractic school at Florida State University that was sought by powerful lawmakers, but vehemently opposed by some FSU medical faculty. The board did not agree there was a need to create the nation's first chiropractic school at a public university, especially when state funding is so scarce and it could damage the school's reputation. The project has been embroiled in controversy since last year when state lawmakers put $9 million in the state budget for a school. Instead it was a pet project for then Senate President Jim...

Faculty members say they are afraid to question the chiropractic school because they fear retribution from either top administrators or the powerful state lawmakers who support it. The atmosphere is grim, said Marc Freeman, a distinguished research professor in the biology department. "We feel as if something is being shoved down our throats that we don't want." The growing frustration comes just weeks before votes by FSU's board of trustees and the Florida Board of Governors that could decide the school's fate. If the school dies, professors should think about the consequences, state Sen. Jim King, an FSU graduate who...

Some threaten to resign over the proposed school. A growing number of professors in the Florida State University College of Medicine are saying they will resign if FSU administrators continue to pursue a proposed chiropractic school. "I would no longer wish to volunteer my teaching energies to FSU medical school, should it encompass a school of chiropractic," wrote Dr. Ian Rogers, an assistant professor at FSU's Pensacola campus, in a Dec. 15 e-mail. "This is plainly ludicrous!!!!" The threatened resignations - at least seven to date, all from assistant professors who work part time - reflect a belief among many...

When a publisher first approached Robert Gellately about editing a psychiatrist's interviews with Nazi war criminals, he wasn't so keen on the idea. Editing can be very time-consuming, and Gellately had his own history books to write. But ultimately he didn't turn down the chance. Now the book the Florida State University professor fine-tuned - "The Nuremberg Interviews" - is being heralded for giving the world new insights into the chilling thoughts of Nazi leaders responsible for the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of more than 6 million Jews during World War II. The book, translated into nine different languages so...

Florida whooped up on FSU tonight, and boy do I feel GOOD!!!!!!!

Tactfully avoiding politics in a key swing state, Vice President Dick Cheney encouraged Florida State University graduates Saturday to take advantage of surprise opportunities in life and to be grateful for those who unexpectedly help them. "Don't let your doubts get the best of you," he said during a brief commencement address at the Civic Center. "I've met some very successful people in my day, men and women of talent and character who have risen to the very top of their fields. It's the rare person who hasn't had a taste of failure or a false start along the way."...

Dick Cheney is going to speak at FSU's graduation in Tallahassee, FL on May 1, tomorrow. My brother says there is a protest rally planned. I found the above on the internet. Any freepers planning on going? Also heard that Laura Bush is going to be at a Miami-Dade gradution...

"Florida State University's attempt to honor its first black students has incurred the wrath of some American Indians. United Native America, an Oklahoma-based group, has protested FSU's recently unveiled "Integration" statue. The statue depicts three of the first black students at FSU, including Doby Flowers who was the school's first black homecoming queen in 1970. Flowers' statue features the traditional American Indian headdress FSU officials once used to crown the homecoming queen, in honor of the school's "Seminoles" nickname."

Florida State University’s dubious tribute Mascots from the past haunt new public sculpture On January 30, Florida State University unveiled a bronze statue entitled ‘Integration’ which depicts an African-American Homecoming Queen wearing an American Indian headdress. The sculpture has caused widespread protest and Mike Graham, founder of the group United Native America, said "… the statue is racist and a put down to our Indian heritage." (Photo courtesy Florida State University) Tallahassee, Fla. - On January 30 Florida State University dedicated a new bronze sculpture on their campus. The work, "Integration," by sculptor W. Stanley "Sandy" Proctor, pays tribute...

Are You Ready for Some Football! A move to expand the ACC makes the dream of an NCAA playoff in football a real possibility. Here's how it should work. by Fred Barnes 05/08/2003 12:00:00 AM THE GOOD NEWS in college athletics is the Atlantic Coast Conference is considering expanding from 9 teams to 12. The better news is that this would give the mid-Atlantic and East a premier conference to match the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Big 12, and PAC 10. The best news is that a bigger, stronger ACC that reaches into New York, New England and south Florida...