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buffoonery (noun) - the arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

If you give up an authority outside yourself, you no longer have any warrant to say anything is right or wrong.

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@patsmithradio @LandrumRoberts @conradvoradio

[Matrix Analytical @CFBAnalytical]

Nothing defines SEC football like Matrix Game Control

Discovered by @CFBMatrix & @cfb_professor, #MGC has quietly defined CFB & NFL for the entire century

In the #SEC, if you win it, you win at a rate so surreal it defies belief #InvestInKnowledge

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@patsmithradio @LandrumRoberts @conradvoradio

[Jim Williams @JWMediaDC]

I respect Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark but he is taking a big game. He says Jan 2030 is a "critical moment" when they hit open market as a "free agent for the first time in 20+ years" to "realize true value." Here's why that's a bluff ESPN & Fox will call: Big 12 is Tier 2 programming (3-6M viewership vs. Tier 1 10M+ Georgia/Alabama), current deal $31.7M/school, and "true value" is probably $35-38M not $50M+. Fox's Big Ten expires 2029-30, Big 12 expires 2030-31—synchronized timelines, no panic. ESPN has SEC through 2034 + ACC through 2035-36 locked, Big 12 is filler. Amazon/Apple have "no stake in college football" and won't bid seriously. Yormark's public commitment ("critical moment," "free agent," "true value") makes bluff-calling easier—he can't quietly negotiate. Best move: quiet extension NOW for $35-37M, avoid risk. What he'll do: go open Jan 2030, get called at $33-36M. Big 12 chose security over speculation in 2022. Now betting on a bluff that won't pay. #Big12 #CollegeFootball #MediaRights #Yormark #ESPN #Fox

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

There are intellectuals in our society who are starting to realize the emptiness of atheism, not just intellectually, but personally.

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

Ronald Reagan marking D-Day in a speech that still has such power. On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day, let us not forget the “Boys of Pointe du Hoc"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.

At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.

Their mission: climb it.

The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.

The Rangers kept climbing.

It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.

They reached the top.

Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.

Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.

The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.

Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.

When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.

Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

82 years ago nearly all of the men on the first few boats that landed on the beach in Normandy were dead before days end.
Sit here with that for a while.
Look at them.
Really look at them.
Look into their eyes.
Many of them are boys, they are someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s sweetheart someone’s father.
They never came home.
And every privilege, every convenience, every freedom and every little thing that you want to bitch about you have because of them and they paid the ultimate price for you to have those freedoms. #dday #FreedomIsNeverFree

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Mike Licona @DrMikeLicona]

Yep

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

A man shot Charlie Kirk in the neck on an Utah campus. Three would-be assassins have come for Donald Trump since 2024. A CEO was shot dead in Manhattan and half the country called his killer a hero. 55% percent of the left now tells pollsters murdering Trump is at least somewhat justified.

And The Southern Poverty Law Center calls left-wing political violence a myth—while at the same time allegedly funding it.

@NoahCRothman says we are living in the third wave of left-wing political violence in just over a century:

The anarchists of the 1910s.
The Marxian guerrillas of the 1970s.
Now us.

How did previous generations find their way out of these cycles, and will we be able to do the same?
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[Pat Smith @patsmithradio]

Eighty-two years ago today, ordinary men did the extraordinary. More than 156,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, knowing many would never come home. They fought not for glory, but for freedom.

As we mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, we honor their courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment to liberty. The debt we owe them only grows with time. 🇺🇸

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@patsmithradio @LandrumRoberts @conradvoradio

[Greg Flugaur @flugempire]

I don’t think Senator Ted Cruz has any idea the difference between “formation Super League” and SEC breaks away from NCAA….Big Ten breaks away from NCAA.

Which makes me question if he understood anything Big Ten & SEC commissioner told him in their meetings yesterday.

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When a conference wants to add a team or two, can a more desirable school for media companies “grease the skids“ for a school with less media value that is coveted by the academics in the conference? @JWMediaDC

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@rltsports

[Jim Williams @JWMediaDC]

There's not four teams out there that fit in the footprint of the conference that adds any value to the SEC. They may not take anybody. They may take two but sometimes more is just more and it doesn't mean that they're going to make any more money from adding to schools

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

It’s easy to feel like the only way to keep your faith intact is to stay out of politics, but is that what Jesus modeled for us? David Wood and I discuss why "tapping out" isn't the answer when it comes to loving our neighbors through politics.

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

Why isn’t Islam compatible with American values? And what should we do about it? Here’s why we must take the growing threat of Islam in the West seriously.

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Why is ESPN subleasing a semifinal playoff? @JWMediaDC

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained Presbyterian Church (USA) minister and professor of religious studies at Elon University in North Carolina. In a sermon, she said: “If Jesus were giving his sermon today, he might also have said, “Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.”

Peters also stated that if Jesus were alive today, he would be a clinic escort or an “abortion doula” holding women’s hands and offering support during abortions.  She serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood and personally escorts patients at abortion clinics once a month.

This is not Christianity. This is literally insane. Progressive Christianity is an oxymoron.

[this buffoon @thisbuffoon]

Apparently, MN is not “loserville city”@flugempire

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Highest career batting average of any right-handed player since World War II? Kirby Puckett.