NBC Sports is reporting that the Texas Longhorns’ 2015 opener in South Bend against Notre Dame will be broadcast in prime-time on NBC. The kickoff will be on Saturday September 5 at 6:30 p.m.
The game will be an early season test for both teams who have not met since a 27-24 Notre Dame victory in Austin in 1996. On an all-time basis, it is an attractive match-up; Texas has 884 total victories, second only to Michigan, but just two more than 882 for Notre Dame.
From the Annals of Ol’ Sarge – In 1871, the Texas legislature approved a bill that provided for the organization of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. The college which became Texas A&M University. The school which was original all-male and all-Corps is now a Tier 1 research institution and the A&M system comprises not only Texas A&M in College Station but also includes:
Richard Parker posits that the extreme positions taken by Texas Tea Partisans make the movement openly hostile to big business. The Texas Association of Business has come out against two of the Tea Party’s most cherished legislative goals – enshrining the right of religious bigots to discriminate based on their say-so and keeping undocumented kids as poor and ignorant as possible. The schism between the merely self-serving but more or less live and let live Country Club Republicans and the Tea Party extremists who want to fundamentally reshape the way you can live your life is growing.
Welcome to Texas, Toyota, and all the accountants, lawyers, contractors and other companies — big and small — that are making the long trek to relocate here. You will find Texas to be immensely friendly. We’re especially friendly to business, which is why you’re coming, of course. Hence, the outlook for Texas is bullish: It’s on track to supplant Germany as the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2050. Texas is so friendly to business that even Democrats stress the word pro-business before mumbling the word Democrat.
But there’s something the eager chambers of commerce and glad-handing mayors probably didn’t tell you before you made up your mind to come to Texas. There’s a political party emerging in Austin the likes of which we’ve never seen. Until recently known as the tea party, it’s the Anti-Business Party of Texas, and it’s about to open the door to a future of uncertainty that will affect your workers, worry your shareholders and befuddle your customers. If you saw the uproar from businesses — from Apple to American Airlines — in Indiana over a so-called religious freedom act, then brace yourself, because Texas could be next.
Two measures in the Legislature would unravel a law that seems to have worked well since 1999. State Sen. Donna Campbell and Rep. Matt Krause, both of the Anti-Business Party, propose to bar state or local governments from enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the event of a religious claim. They even want to enshrine the ban in the Texas Constitution. This would effectively gut anti-discrimination protections, particularly for gay people, in most cities. Campbell also is effectively trying to deny an affordable college education to the children of unauthorized immigrants.
The Houston Chronicle reports on the Tea Party’s legislative successes in Texas – a state where it rules the roost like in no other. If you have any doubts about whether the Tea Party is running (some say ruining) this state, this article will disabuse you of that notion. Only Joe Strauss and some House comrades stand in the way of ceding complete control of Texas to extreme conservatives.
Before 2009, the tea party was more like a tea brunch. The movement that has found such success in Texas, unlike arguably anywhere else in the country, brought its six years of work at the local level to Austin.
At a Wednesday rally at the Capitol, conveniently on Tax Day, the first-ever statewide gathering of local tea party groups took pride in their legislative gains that have remade Texas politics and have launched – and killed – many politicians’ careers.
Rep. Jonathan Stickland, the Bedford Republican who was introduced at the rally as “the No.1 conservative,” went on his usual tirade against House leadership. He seemed less of a legislator and more of a kingmaker as he introduced several new Republican lawmakers, mostly in the Senate, who have yanked the upper chamber to the right this session.
“This session, so far, has been filled with great things” in the Senate, Strickland said. “Conservative legislation is dying every single minute that ticks by.” There are about 47 days left in the legislative session before lawmakers go home until 2017, barring a Gov. Greg Abbott-called special session.
From the Annals of Tejano – In 1971, the greatest of all the Tejana stars, Selena Quintanilla Perez, was born in Lake Jackson. Selena’s impact on music and fashion made her one of the top Mexican-American artists of the 80’s and 90’s. She was named the “top Latin artist of the ’90s” by Billboard and was the “best selling Latin artist of the decade”. She began her career at age 9 and recorded her first album at 11. She was named top female vocalist award nine times at the Tejano Music awards. Her list of career accomplishments could go on for pages. Tragically, she was killed by the founder of her first fan club on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi. Her posthumous album Dreaming of You debuted at No.1. The crossover album was destined to make her a star beyond the world of Tejano music. Red was driving past the Astrodome when he heard the news of her death. The same Astrodome where Selena held the record for attendance in one of her appearances at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Red had asked Mrs. Red for years to go see her, but never did to his everlasting regret.
Letters From Texas explains why the Tea Party ignores Electoral College math at its peril and why another Bush and Rubio might last for a while in primary winnowing process. The succinct point is that there is no path to victory for a GOP presidential candidate that does not lead through Florida. In contrast, a Democrat that wins Florida is almost assured of victory but has other routes to the White House.
For years Red has complained about the big boys of college football scheduling non-conference games against the weak sisters to avoid losses that might knock them out of the running for the no longer mythical National Championship. The move to a 4 team playoff last year should go a long ways towards the high and mighty at least scheduling the lofty and muscular. My thinking is that with 4 playoff spots available, coaches might approach non-conference scheduling a little differently. For example, when it comes to crunch time for the selection committee at the end of the regular season – what is going to look better – a one point loss to a 9-3 Georgia which played a tough schedule or that 55-3 ass-whupping of Southern Northeast Middle Louisiana State?
And maybe just maybe, Red’s Longhorns are headed in the right direction and others will follow. NBCSports reports that UT will be playing the toughest non-conference schedule in the land over the next five seasons.
A home-and-home with Notre Dame. A home-and-home with USC. A home-and-home with LSU. Plus home-and-homes with Maryland and California, one-off games with Central Florida and South Florida, and no dates with FCS opponents. That’s all in the next five years. (If we voyage into the next decade we’ll see a road date at Arkansas and home-and-homes with Michigan and Ohio State as well.)
It’s enough for the folks at ESPN’s Stats & Information department to rank Texas atop its list of toughest future non-conference schedules. “Overall, Texas is projected to play a Power 5 opponent in 10 of its 15 nonconference games over the next five years, tied for the most Power 5 matchups of any team,” the group writes. “The Longhorns are also one of 10 Power 5 teams that will not face an FCS opponent during that time.”
Well done, well done.
Judicial Watch is reporting that Mexican Army and “federal law enforcement officials” have discovered an ISIS camp just outside of Ciudad Juarez close to the U.S. border. The report is based on unnamed sources and provides extensive details of what would be a large-scale operation to infiltrate the U.S. Frankly, Red thinks that ISIS has its hands full avoiding an ass-whupping in Iraq and Syria while taking time out to destroy priceless archeological and historic relics. That coupled with the fact that Judicial Watch is a right-wing advocacy organization well-known for filing frivolous lawsuits to advance its conservative agenda. But maybe, Red is wrong. So here is what the good folks at Judicial Watch are claiming.
The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.
During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.
Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.
According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.
Red suggests unleashing kamikaze javelina drones to disrupt the alleged ISIS warriors flooding into the land the free.
The Fifth Circuit is set to hear a motion to lift the district court stay of the President Obama’s recent actions on immigration. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked the President’s November executive action which grants relief from deportation and work permits to approximately 5 million undocumented workers including many who currently reside, work and pay taxes in Texas. Hanen refused to lift the stay while the Administration appeals to the Fifth Circuit. Off the Kuff reports that the panel hearing the motion may not be too friendly to the Obama Administration’s position. The panel includes Judges Jerry Smith, Jennifer Elrod and Steven Higginson. In fact according to Kuffner, it may be downright hostile.
Smith’s conservatism is tribal and, at times, belligerent. It would be very surprising if he cast a vote in favor of politically controversial programs spearheaded by Barack Obama.
He is joined on the panel by Judge Jennifer Elrod. Elrod is a George W. Bush appointee, while Smith is a Reagan appointee, so her record is not as thick as Judge Smith’s.
Elrod’s record on immigration suggests that she will take a similarly conservative approach. In Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch, the full Fifth Circuit voted 9-5 to strike down a local ordinance that effectively made it a crime for undocumented immigrants to rent a home. Elrod dissented from this decision, claiming, somewhat improbably, that the ordinance “does not constitute a regulation of immigration.”
As we enter our peak thunderstorm season, it is best to be reminded of the awesome power of these natural phenomena. When the whole building starts swaying and the windows rattle with each boom, it can be a little scary. Then there is this photo posted in the Washington Post yesterday of a thunderstorm near Lubbock that closely resembles a thermonuclear bomb blast. Other amazing photographs are included in the accompanying story.
If that doesn’t put the fear of God into you, nothing will.
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