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“Ten Weeks Left”: Texas Republican Urges Gov. Abbott To Curb Emergency Powers Before Democratic Takeover

Texas Republican Has A Plan For Abbott’s Final Ten WeeksTexas Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) posted on X that Republicans still hold power in Texas for the next ten weeks and urged defeated three-term Governor Greg Abbott to convene an immediate special legislative session to curb executive emergency powers before Democrat Gina Hinojosa and her pals take power.Harrison wrote on X, “Republicans lost last night, but Democrats were not sworn in.”He continued, “We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat.”Harrison said legislation like HB 911, which he filed in 2022, would:Prohibit the governor from suspending or modifying statutes.Sunset emergency orders after 30 days if the Legislature does not ratify them.Prohibit the governor from reissuing emergency orders that have expired or that the Legislature has rejected.Require emergency orders to be narrowly tailored.Subject emergency orders to expedited judicial review.Harrison framed the bill as a separation-of-powers issue, saying he has opposed unchecked emergency authority under governors of either party. He said that Hinojosa’s election made action more urgent and called on fellow lawmakers to support his call for a special session.He said his bill “would protect liberty from executive fiat,” adding, “The future of liberty in America is literally on the line in Texas, and Texans deserve leadership that acts accordingly.”Journalist Lara Logan called Harrison’s bill a “Hail Mary for Texas – perhaps the Governor could show some courage.”A hail mary for Texas – perhaps the Governor could show some courage.— Lara Logan (@laralogan) November 4, 2026With these broad emergency powers, could the incoming left-wing governor declare a border disaster as a migrant caravan approaches?HONDURAN CARAVAN ENTERING: just like many predicted, a Honduran caravan has left San Pedro Sula yesterday, now headed towards the US.— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) November 4, 2026She could potentially invoke the same statute Abbott used, emphasizing humanitarian risks such as dangerous exposure or inadequate shelter, provided conditions meet the legal threshold.
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Jewish organizations called on Philadelphia and Pennsylvania leaders to condemn an upcoming “boycott ride” targeting pro-Israel and “Zionist establishments” in a statement Monday.The organizations Philly Bike On Your Left, Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar shared a flier promoting the bicycle boycott event at Rittenhouse Square on Nov. 8.”Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” Philly Bike On Your Left wrote on Instagram.ISRAEL, JEWS TARGETED WORLDWIDE AS WELL-FUNDED LEFTIST, ISLAMIST GROUPS JOIN FOR ‘NAKBA 78’ PROTESTSThe flier included the names of Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, Huda, Schlesinger’s and Mac Mart, all of which are owned by either Israeli or Jewish Americans.The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee Philadelphia/Southern NJ, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and StandWithUs released a joint statement condemning the event as “Jew-Hatred, plain and simple” and called on city and state leadership to do the same.”Free speech protects political expression and criticism of Israeli government policies. It does not provide a license for threats, harassment, intimidation, or discrimination. There is a profound difference between criticizing a government and targeting businesses because their owners are Jewish or perceived to be connected to Israel,” the statement read.The organizations also remarked that the boycott’s scheduled date would occur on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Nazi-organized attack on Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses in Germany and Austria.WEAPONIZING THE CHARGE OF GENOCIDE FUELS AN INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS ANTISEMITISMIn a statement to Fox News Digital, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s office pointed to remarks shared Tuesday by Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) Executive Director Renee Chenault-Fattah.”The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations reaffirms its 75-year commitment to fighting racism, antisemitism and, in recent years, Islamophobia. Acts of bigotry, violence and hate cannot be tolerated, and we will never stand by and allow businesses, individuals or jobs to be run out of our city, full stop,” the statement read.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro also issued a statement to Fox News Digital condemning the event and assuring Jewish communities that his administration was working with authorities ahead of Sunday.”The Shapiro Administration is aware of this planned protest and the Pennsylvania State Police is engaged with our local partners to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our neighbors in Philadelphia. This bike ride, masquerading as a protest to advance the cause of justice, is nothing more than blatant antisemitism designed to intimidate and drive Jewish businesses out of our communities, and there is no place for that in our Commonwealth,” Shapiro spokesperson Rosie Lapowsky said.Ahead of the planned boycott, some of the targeted businesses reported receiving broad support from the public.Mac Mart owner Marti Lieberman told Fox News Digital that while it is “heartbreaking” to have to defend her business, she hoped the attention would shed light on what other small-business owners were were facing.OAKLAND COFFEE SHOP ACCUSED OF KICKING OUT JEWISH DAD, 5-YEAR-OLD SON AND SHUTTERS AMID ANTISEMITISM LAWSUITS”We are absolutely feeling the love from this community, and we don’t take a single order, kind message, or person showing up for us for granted,” Lieberman said. “Our hope is that this attention also sheds some light on what small business owners are dealing with, often quietly, and brings accountability to those choosing to target and tear down businesses without considering the real people behind them.””At the end of the day, we want to keep doing what we built Mac Mart to do: feed people, make them feel welcome, and send them off a little happier than when they arrived. Everyone is still welcome at our window,” she added.Huda owner Yehuda Sichel defended his Jewish heritage and pledged to stand against the boycott.”I’m proud to be Jewish and supportive of Israel. Neither should make my business a target,” Sichel told Fox News Digital. “As the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, seeing Jewish businesses targeted on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary is deeply personal.” “Since this was announced, we’ve received nothing but positive support, with people coming in to patronize our business in response to this boycott,” he added. “Our doors are open to everyone, and we’re not going anywhere.” Fox News Digital reached out to Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza and Boycott CookNSolo, two of the groups promoting the event, for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were in a Brooklyn court on Wednesday during opening statements in their gambling case.The relievers are accused of rigging their own pitches during games to benefit bettors. Both have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges and are on non-disciplinary leave from the club without pay while facing prosecution. They were arrested in November 2025 and have been free on bail since.The pitchers were described by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Urquiola Wednesday as “cheaters” during opening statements , and she said they “sold their pitches.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEUrquiola said Clase befriended a sports betting gambler in the Dominican Republic in early 2023 who shared his interest in dominoes and cockfighting, which is legal in his home country.She said Clase saw gamblers profiting from his pitches and “decided it wasn’t enough to help his friends make money,” so he asked for kickbacks.Clase eventually agreed to tell “his new friend” what kinds of pitches he would throw in certain games, enabling gamblers to reap at least $460,000 on platforms that allow customers to bet on whether a pitch would be a ball or a strike, she said.Defense lawyers, however, said their clients were innocent and that a gambler who befriended Clase falsely claimed to other gamblers that the pitcher was providing inside information on his pitches and tried to sell them the information.He said Clase was 25 in the spring of 2023 when he met a 41-year-old gambler, Enoc Pena, who made over 7,000 bets from 2023 to 2025 and had a history of lying to get what he wanted.Pena “didn’t see a peer, a friend. He saw a mark,” Bronson said.WORLD SERIES CHAMPION MARK TEIXEIRA WINS US HOUSE SEAT IN TEXAS: ‘I’M EXCITED’Soon Pena was bringing Clase food and picking him up at the airport in the Dominican Republic, the lawyer said. The pitcher, in turn, gave him tickets to Guardians games and loaned him money.As Pena bragged to fellow gamblers that he was close to Clase and tried to sell them information, he was actually guessing which pitches Clase would throw in games and managed with fellow gamblers to lose over 200 bets on Clase’s pitches, the lawyer said. Pena was “selling lies,” Bronson said, urging jurors to ask themselves if his client would risk “a fortune and his lifelong dream over a few thousand dollars.”Bettors allegedly won $400,000 from betting platforms on pitches thrown by Clase between 2023 and 2025. Ortiz allegedly joined the scheme in June 2025.In one instance, the indictment alleges, Clase used his phone in the middle of a game to coordinate with a bettor on a pitch he would throw.Clase turned himself into arguably the game’s best closer, pitching to a 1.21 ERA in his last full season in 2024, which was good for a third-place finish in the American League Cy Young Award vote. His 2025 ERA was 3.80 by the time he was investigated. Ortiz boasts a lifetime 4.36 ERA, with his best season also coming in 2024 with a 3.32 ERA.Clase inked a five-year, $20 million deal just before opening day in 2022, a few months after finishing fifth in the AL Rookie of the Year voting. Ortiz was making the veteran minimum of $782,600 last season because he was not yet arbitration eligible.OutKick’s Ryan Gaydos, Jackson Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A Canadian woman and her daughter were killed in a suspected grizzly bear attack over the weekend while hiking on a trail near their home, according to authorities.Jennifer Balcarras, 48, an art therapist, and her daughter, Selah Reed, 20, went missing Saturday after going for a walk on the Snooka West Trail, just minutes from their home in Bella Coola, British Columbia.Loved ones grew concerned when Balcarras failed to show up for a scheduled online meet-up on Saturday, her brother, Matt Balcarras, told the Vancouver Sun.A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NOT GETTING MAULED BY A BEAR WHILE HIKING OR CAMPING THIS SUMMERAfter failing to reach the pair, relatives asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to perform a welfare check on Sunday morning.Authorities discovered Balcarras’ vehicle parked at the trailhead. Her body was recovered Monday, and search teams found Reed’s body on Tuesday.GRIZZLY BEAR MAULS HIKER, DRAGS HIM DOZENS OF FEET ON GLACIER NATIONAL PARK TRAIL”There was evidence to suggest a bear may have been involved,” Jeff Tyre, an inspector with the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service, said in a video update posted to social media.Tyre noted that officers were actively working to “locate and capture any bears involved” and said it was not immediately clear if more than one animal was responsible.HIDDEN DANGER AT POPULAR US NATIONAL PARK FORCES TRAIL CLOSURES AS BEAR SIGHTINGS CLIMB”Any captured bear will be assessed,” conservation officials added in a statement. “If it is determined to have been involved in the attack, it will be dispatched in accordance with provincial human-wildlife conflict response guidelines to protect public safety.”Matt Balcarras expressed shock over the location of the attack, emphasizing that his sister and niece were experienced in the region.”They were not naive city folks,” he said. “They were strong women living the life.”The tragic encounter came less than a year after a grizzly bear injured 11 people, including fourth- and fifth-grade students, during a school field trip near Bella Coola.

Scandal-plagued illegal invader Ilhan Omar won reelection on Tuesday in Minnesota.
The Somali community celebrated last night.
Once again, the Somali scammer will once again represent the state of Minnesota in the US Congress.
Ilhan Omar wins reelection handlily in Minnesota. – bing screenshot
Scandal-plagued Somali Ilhan Omar won with 76% of the vote and 262,702 votes, over her Republican opponent John Nagel, with 16% of the vote and 55,875 votes.
This is despite Ilhan’s criminal past finally creeping up on her.
As TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks reported in 2019:
This article was originally published on The Gateway Pundit on September 25, 2019.

Newly uncovered photographs of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s family provide even more evidence that she married her brother as part of an immigration scam.
Weeks before the photographs were uncovered, a tweet resurfaced in which Rep. Omar linked to a now-deleted Instagram post in which she referred to her father as Nur Said.

In 2009, Rep. Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
In most Muslim countries, a person’s surname is actually the father’s name. This means that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is the son of Nur Said — and Rep. Omar’s brother.
After Gateway Pundit and other outlets reported the development, Rep. Omar deleted the tweet.
Now, more resurfaced tweets are painting an even clearer picture of the sham marriage Rep. Omar was involved in and the lengths she is going to hide it.
In a series of tweets from January, Rep. Omar’s sister Sahra Noor discussed her lawmaker relative — and her “other sister” with a winking emoji.

Four days prior to those tweets, Noor had tweeted a photo of a family reunion which included several men — and Leila Nur Said Elmi.
In December 2016, a man named Suleiman Axoow wrote on Facebook: “On Wednesday night I had an opportunity to have dinner with State Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar & her lovely sis Leila Elmi.”
Noor is the only sibling that Rep. Omar has publicly acknowledged.

Journalist David Steinberg obtained a copy of Leila Elmi’s marriage certificate, which lists Nur Said as her father.

As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, in 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her husband (brother?) that she hadn’t seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn’t know anyone who could help her contact him. She claimed, under oath, that she did not know how to contact a single one of his relatives.
An extensive report by David Steinberg in July revealed that in 1995, Ilhan entered the United States as a fraudulent member of the “Omar” family.
“That is not her family. The Omar family is a second, unrelated family which was being granted asylum by the United States. The Omars allowed Ilhan, her genetic sister Sahra, and her genetic father Nur Said to use false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family,” the report explained. “Ilhan’s genetic family split up at this time. The above three received asylum in the United States, while Ilhan’s three other siblings — using their real names — managed to get asylum in the United Kingdom.”
Steinberg reported that Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’s name, before applying for asylum, was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
“Her father’s name before applying for asylum was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed. Her sister Sahra Noor’s name before applying for asylum was Sahra Nur Said Elmi. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi,” the report continued.
As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former genocidal dictator in Somalia, Said Barre. Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally.
The Daily Caller reports, “In 2017, she filed for divorce from Elmi and said she hadn’t seen him since 2012. She swore under oath that she did not know the name of a single member of his family and did not know anyone who knew him. But another Power Line screenshot of a deleted post from Omar’s Instagram account shows her with Elmi in London during this period.”

Ilhan is the litmus test for America.
Do laws mean anything? Will Republicans be able to hold her to account and have her face justice for her crimes?
And, more importantly… Can she represent Minnesota from Somalia?
She could be expelled to her home country before the new Congress convenes in January.

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Stephen Redic is now charged for allegedly slapping a Turning Point USA teen activist
A leftist who lost his temper and turned violent on election day for America’s midterms, slapping a Turning Point USA volunteer, is seeing there are consequences.
Charges. Two of them. Disorderly conduct and simply assault.
The fracas on video:

An 18-year-old stood his ground at the polls in New Hampshire today and was assaulted for it. He stayed calm. The left got violent. Don’t cede the ground, show up to the polls. Your vote helps us outnumber these people. https://t.co/aX43b5EFIT
— Turning Point Action (@TPAction) November 3, 2026

And the “find out” part of the equation:

BREAKING: Stephen Redic, 70, arrested after assauIting a TPUSA member manning a booth in NH Redic is charged with misdemeanor simple assauIt and disorderly conduct FAFO https://t.co/1dsf3AfIBH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 4, 2026

And a perceptive on Democrats’ and their often unconstrained violence:

@libsoftiktok @Yolo304741 It’s about time these people get arrested. I’m tired of the Democrat violence going unpunished.
— Just here for the truth (@Herefortruth87) November 4, 2026

A report at Twitchy pointed out that the “NASTY GRAMPY” has been identified as Stephen Redic, a “lunatic boomer in New Hampshire.”
“And, as we’ve seen, the way Democrats celebrate is to promise violence and revenge,” the report said. “Apparently, affordability is off the menu. Sorry, gullible voters. We tried to warn you. All the Left does is lie. But we take some small solace in the fact that at least one unhinged, violent leftist isn’t enjoying the afterglow today.”
While the fines for misdemeanors likely are small, that “assumes that [Redic] doesn’t find himself on the wrong end of a civil suit.”
While, it’s fun to see Redic discovering consequences, “what really warms our hearts is the young man with TPUSA, who refused to back down to a lunatic,” the report said.
WATCH: Raging boomer slaps conservative teen activist at polling place

As Republicans sift through the wreckage of a devastating election night that handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress by large margins, one Florida Republican who bucked the national trend says the GOP fundamentally misread the electorate.In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Congressman Randy Fine — who expanded his own winning margin by five points despite the national backlash — offered a candid assessment of his party’s shortcomings and warned that Republicans must now prepare for an “ugly two years” battling Democrats over immigration and other contentious issues.While Republicans held their ground in Florida, winning the governor’s mansion, the Senate race, and maintaining their 20-8 edge in the US House, nationally the GOP got crushed under the weight of a blue tsunami.ILHAN OMAR HIT WITH EXPULSION THREAT AS GOP LAWMAKER VOWS TO BOOT HER FROM CONGRESS OVER DOJ PROBECongressman Fine presents no easy answer to the GOP’s divergence in fortunes between Florida and the rest of the country:”You know, I think that’s a hard question to answer. What I would say, I can speak to my race, and I’m actually one of the few Republicans in the country whose margin increased from my last election. I won my special election after having $14 million spent against me. I won it by 14 points. I won last night by 19 points. And so what I can tell you is what worked for me.”My constituents want a fighter, someone who says what they believe. They know it’s not driven by polls or anything else and fights for them, whether it’s fighting for their constituent service issue or fighting on illegal immigration or fighting to bring money to the district. And that’s why I went up so much. I took my race seriously because I knew the winds were against us.”And so, Florida, I think just people know how good we have it and they don’t want to screw up the state. I think that’s why we won all 20 of these races.”Fine refuses to single out anyone in GOP leadership for the electoral outcome, and believes the Republicans must approach each election cycle as a unified team:”Well, look, I’m not a finger pointer, but what I would say is this. We’re a team and the team lost. And so then the whole team bears responsibility and that includes me. I mean, while I did well, my team lost and and I’m not going to be here pointing the fingers at anybody.FROM CAMPUS RADICALS TO BEIJING’S AI SABOTAGE: REP RANDY FINE SAYS ‘US FIGHTING TO SAVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION'”I think that what we did is we failed to understand what the American people wanted. I think we failed to make them think we cared about them. Now, I didn’t fail in my district, but I think nationally people came to believe that we weren’t interested in them and that’s wrong.”We were, but we failed to communicate, it and maybe that’s part of my special sauce is I know how to communicate better than many of these people.”With Democrats firmly in control of both chambers of Congress, Fine anticipates two years of playing defense, and a continuous fight to explain why Democrats’ policies will be harmful to the country:”I don’t know that we’re going to push the agenda. I think what we’re going to be is we’re going to be on defense. We’re going to have to fight back. And you know, as my father told me this morning, he goes, ‘Randy, you’ve been a fighter your whole life. You were built for the fight.'”So we’re going to be having to fight against stupid policies that they will be pushing. And it’s going to be an ugly two years, but we’re gonna have to explain why all of the things that they said they would do during the campaign are so bad. We obviously didn’t succeed in doing that. But as they put those policies forward, we’re going to have to make the argument for why they would damage America.”Immigration is the single issue that Fine identifies as having the greatest potential to harm the country:”I think they will seek to reopen the border and allow illegals to flood in. I think they will seek mass amnesty, rewarding all of the illegals that are here. And I think they will stop any requirement for people who come to this country to assimilate. They believe in the ‘third worldification’ of America. And that’s going to be the number one thing we have to fight back against.”Florida and Texas painted a particularly stark contrast in electoral outcomes. Fine suggests the Sunshine state GOP was better prepared to face headwinds:”Well, I think maybe our candidates at the top of the ticket were better. You know, Byron Donalds is an incredible spokesman for the conservative movement. Ashley Moody is a multiple-time winner statewide. And I think Texas allowed itself to slide on a lot of these things.”They had a big influx of illegal immigrants. And they also really didn’t fight back against the Islamification of their state in a way that we have in Florida. Demographics are destiny. And I think, to some degree, Texas was overtaken by that yesterday.”Fine has long been an outspoken critic of Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, and believes he represents a danger to the country:”Of all the races last night, that one breaks my heart the most. I mean, someone who literally supports Muslim terror, someone whose family is embedded in so many aspects of Muslim terror. Someone who’s really a danger to this country being elected to the United States Senate. It’s an unspeakably horrible thing, a historically bad thing. Someone who doesn’t support the United States. Someone who supports the Muslim Brotherhood.”It breaks my heart. I’m not from Michigan, I don’t know what they were thinking, but it’s a terrible, terrible, terrible day. Look today for me has been a hard day. You know I won my election last night, I was super excited. My margin went up. It’s unheard of in this cycle and so I’m super excited, then I watched the bottom fall out of the election results and realized so many good people lost today.”So it’s a challenging day for me, the high of winning so decisively with the low of realizing the battle that we have ahead of us, but God puts us where he wants us to be and I’m a fighter and I am ready for the fight.”Finally, as it appears that either Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise is likely to be the next House Minority Leader, Fine declined to weigh in:”No, I mean, these are discussions. I’ve not spoken with either Scalise or Jordan at this point. They’ve got a lot of phone calls to make, and we’ll get to that when we get to that. But it won’t be Mike Johnson. He’s taken himself out of consideration.”

The first College Football Playoff rankings dropped Tuesday night, and right on cue, the committee gave college football fans plenty to be mad about. Alabama somehow checked in at No. 5 while Tennessee got parked down at No. 13. Keep in mind this is just two weeks after the Vols handled the Tide head-to-head.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Craig Carton wasn’t having any of the committee’s nonsense Wednesday’s The Craig Carton Show.”Question, question, question. Question on the floor. How is Alabama ranked fifth when Tennessee is ranked 13th? Inquiring minds want to know,” Carton said. “They played each other two weeks ago. Tennessee beat them by 16 points.”COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF RANKINGS: MIAMI TAKES TOP SPOT, INDIANA CRACKS TOP FIVE IN FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASEIt is a fair question that has very little to do with hyping up Knoxville.Carton pointed out that Tennessee has its own flaws and probably does not belong anywhere near the top five right now. But when both programs sit at two losses, common sense suggests the team that won on the field should have the advantage.TENNESSEE DOMINATES AS ALABAMA SUFFERS FIRST BACK-TO-BACK REGULAR-SEASON LOSSES IN NEARLY TWO DECADES”Now, I’m not saying Tennessee should be a top-five program right now. They shouldn’t be,” he noted. “But how does Alabama, with two losses, get ranked eight spots ahead of Tennessee when they just lost to Tennessee head-to-head? “That gets to the heart of what actually frustrates people about this process. Head-to-head is not just another metric on a piece of paper, it is the only piece of evidence that was decided by the players on the field.YES, ALABAMA’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF RANKING IS ABSURD, BUT ONE TEAM GOT ROYALLY SCREWED BY THE COMMITTEE”Isn’t head-to-head, shouldn’t head-to-head, unless you’re a porn star, of course, shouldn’t head-to-head be the number one deciding factor when figuring out which team should be over another team? ” he asked. “Then you can, of course, get into strength of schedule, the opponents, and all the other nonsense. They played against each other. I watched the game. Tennessee dominated Alabama.”Yet whenever Alabama drops a couple of games, the committee seems to look for every possible reason to keep the Crimson Tide near the top. “And yet, here we are, like we always are, currying favor with the Crimson Tide,” Carton pointed out.”You know, the only good thing about Alabama, not the, uh, is that a state in Alabama? It is. I’m pretty sure it’s a state,” he said. “The only good thing about Alabama, not the state, because I think it’s a wonderful state, but the college, are those hot sorority videos that come out every September and October. You know the ones, 150 girls standing on the front porch of an old plantation house … I love it. I love it, man. But Tennessee’s got the same thing there, too.”Viral videos aside, the bottom line comes down to football, and Carton finished by giving Alabama fans a dose of reality.CFP RANKINGS: NOTRE DAME FACES SUDDEN DEATH, SEC FEELING GOOD, AND BIG TEN CLOSE TO HITTING THE PANIC BUTTON”And I’ve got to tell you this, I’m not saying that Tennessee got screwed, but I’m saying that Alabama’s screwing everybody else,” he concluded. “And Alabama is not winning a national title this year, and they should not. Sorry, Crimson Tide fans. Roll Tide. You should not be No. 5 in these first official rankings when it comes to football.”Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela

New Hampshire police have arrested a 70-year-old poet after he allegedly slapped a Turning Point Action member in the face outside a Laconia elementary school where voters were casting ballots yesterday.The Laconia Police Department said officers arrested the suspect, identified as Stephen Redic, around 8 a.m. Wednesday on charges of simple assault, a misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a violation.”We’re not familiar with him, meaning we’ve had no prior contacts,” Laconia Police Chief Matthew Canfield told Fox News Digital Wednesday.DEMOCRATIC STUDENT GROUP TO PROTEST CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL AT CAMPUS WHERE HE WAS KILLEDIn a press release, Laconia police said Redic approached the Turning Point tent as he was leaving and wanted “to read a poem about rich people.” The poem isn’t included in viral video of the incident, which shows the victim attempting to debate as Redic raises his voice and grows increasingly angry.Video of the incident shows the increasingly agitated older man shouting at the victim before giving him the middle finger, slapping him across the face and walking away.UTAH STUDENT CITED AFTER PHYSICAL ALTERCATION WITH COLLEGE REPUBLICAN CAUGHT ON CAMERA”You sit there and dare to look me in the face and say I don’t know anything?” the man identified as Redic says, his voice growing hoarse before he shoves his finger in the victim’s face.”That’s what I know,” he says, before backhanding him.CHARLIE KIRK’S FAMILY ALLEGES UVU KNEW OF ROOFTOP SECURITY RISK BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION: LEGAL FILINGA few moments later, he adds, “f— that s—,” as he storms away. People off-camera discuss calling the police.Onlookers were audibly surprised.SEND US A TIPTurning Point described the victim as an 18-year-old.Redic published a book of poems in 2023 called “Tying My Shoes.” In it, he boasted of meeting every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTHe’s due in court on Dec. 10 for an arraignment.It was not immediately clear whether he’d obtained a lawyer as of Wednesday afternoon. He did not immediately respond to an attempt to reach him.GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAILThe slap comes 14 months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University under a similar tent. He founded both Turning Point USA and its affiliate, Turning Point Action.His accused killer, Tyler Robinson, is due in court Monday for a hearing that could see a trial date set. He has pleaded not guilty.