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Alex Golesh's parents left Moscow with two kids, four hundred dollars and no English. Today as coach of Auburn he beat number 1 Georgia His father was a telecommunications engineer. In New York he drove a truck. His mother was a medical aide. She cleaned houses. Their seven year old is the head coach at Auburn. Tonight he walked into Athens and beat number one Georgia on the road. Here is the whole thing. The Soviet Union was coming apart. Vladimir and Bella Golesh decided they were taking their sons out. Here is the father, on why. "We were scared." "We didn't know exactly what life would be like. We just knew we had to get to America." "Leaving Russia was the only decision." It took about two years of paperwork and interviews before they could go. An aunt in New York sponsored them and met them at the airport. They brought a few bags of clothes and four hundred dollars. Not one of them spoke the language. They landed in Brooklyn and lived in a two bedroom apartment above a bodega. Alex was seven and learned English at school. Now here is what he actually remembers about arriving in America. Bananas. "I loved bananas. That was like my thing." "They were really hard to get. They were like a delicacy almost." "Man, in America, you can get all the bananas you want." That was the measure of the whole country to a seven year old. You could have as many bananas as you wanted. He remembers the street vendors too, and wanting to try what he had only seen people on television having. "I was like, I just want to try that." "I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever tasted." Later the family moved to Ohio because it was cheaper to live there. And that is where he saw this sport for the first time. Here is how he describes figuring out what he was watching. "These dudes are running around and hitting people, and it's encouraged. Like, people are clapping for people smacking people." "That was the first time I ever saw a college football game. I thought it was the coolest thing ever." Here is his wife Alexis. "I'm absolutely astonished every time I hear the story." "Alex had never even seen American football." And here is the line from him that explains all of it. "When you're a kid, you don't really know what you don't have." His father never stopped working. He drove for a pizza company, then managed a store, then ran a warehouse. And his mother, who got off that plane unable to say one sentence in English, works for a language translation service now. A man who fixed telephone lines in Moscow got in a truck in New York instead. His wife cleaned other people's houses. They did it with four hundred dollars and no way to ask anybody for help. Tonight their kid walked into Sanford Stadium and beat the best team in the country in front of its own crowd. 27 to 24, on a field goal at the end. Here is the last thing his father said about leaving. "We are free." For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

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True Story: On the afternoon of September 9, 2020, in the flat expanse of Divide County, North Dakota, a farmer named Lane Unhjem was racing the autumn frost. In the northern plains, the harvest window for wheat and durum is razor-thin; a single heavy rain or an early prairie freeze can wipe out an entire year of labor and investment in a matter of hours. While working his fields outside the small town of Crosby, disaster struck: Lane’s combine suddenly caught fire. In the frantic struggle to battle the blaze and save his equipment, the physical shock triggered a massive heart attack. Lane collapsed in the dirt beside his burning machine. First responders managed to stabilize him before he was airlifted more than one hundred miles south to an intensive care unit in Minot, hovering on the brink of death. His wife and children rushed to the hospital, living minute by minute in an ICU waiting room, praying for his heart to keep beating. Back home, roughly one thousand acres of golden durum wheat and canola remained standing in the fields. For an independent family farm, leaving a thousand unharvested acres to rot under impending weather means financial ruin. Word traveled across the country roads that evening. Don Anderson, a longtime neighbor, picked up his phone. He did not organize a committee or wait for an outside relief agency; he simply called a few fellow farmers across the county. The message was brief: Lane is in Minot fighting for his life, and his crop is still in the dirt. Harvest is the most stressful, high-stakes week of the entire year for every single grower in North Dakota. Every minute spent away from your own fields is a gamble against the weather. Yet the following morning, just after dawn, the gravel roads leading to the Unhjem homestead began to rumble. Eleven massive combine harvesters crested the horizon in a single line, accompanied by six heavy grain carts and fifteen 18-wheel semi-trucks. Around sixty neighboring farmers had shut down their own operations, fueled their own rigs out of their own pockets, and driven miles across the prairie to take Lane’s place. Local women from the surrounding farms and church congregations arrived in pickup trucks loaded with coolers of coffee, ham sandwiches, and hot dishes, setting up an open-air mess station in the bed of a truck to keep the crews running. The combines dropped their headers into the grain and moved side by side across the amber fields, cutting a half-mile wide swath with every pass. They ran without stopping. As soon as a combine hopper filled, a grain cart pulled alongside on the fly, loaded the grain, and rushed it to waiting semis bound for the local elevator. In roughly seven hours of relentless, coordinated work, sixty neighbors finished what would have taken Lane weeks to complete on his own. By late afternoon, all one thousand acres were harvested, hauled, and safely in the bins. The fields were swept clean, and the Unhjem family’s livelihood was secured while Lane lay in a medically induced coma. When news crews later reached out to Don Anderson and the other farmers to ask why men would risk their own harvests for another family, Anderson was almost embarrassed by the attention. "It's just what you do," he said simply. "Everybody knows the Unhjems. When someone needs help, you don’t think about it. You just show up." Lane Unhjem survived, woke up in that Minot hospital bed, and returned home to discover that while he was fighting for his pulse, his community had ensured his family wouldn't lose the farm.

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.@POTUS: Mercedes-Benz is investing $4B to expand its plant in Tuscaloosa. U.S. Steel is investing $475M at its plant near Birmingham. Eli Lilly is investing $6B to create a new factory in Huntsville. ArcelorMittal is investing $1.2B for an advanced steel manufacturing facility in Mobile. We just opened a brand new facility to build Navy submarines in Cherokee — and we're building new Coast Guard Cutters right here in Mobile. MANUFACTURING IS BACK!

Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms: Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering… dlvr.it/TVhlpf

The Greatest Story Never Told - Trump’s economy has produced all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate. Now the Atlanta Fed predicts 5 percent GDP growth. You’d think somebody would notice. According to the latest from the Census Bureau, the poverty rate just hit its lowest level in U.S. history. Read that again. That’s not all. America just also hit its highest real median household income in history. The Atlanta Fed estimates that the economy is growing at an incredible 5 percent annual rate. That’s after years of Democrats promising us that 1.6 percent was “the new normal.” It’s also after barely more than a year and a half of Trump back in office. It gets even better. Child poverty fell to just 13.4 percent, the lowest official rate ever recorded. Hispanic poverty fell to a record low 13.9 percent. Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1 percent since January 2025; construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5 percent. It’s kind of a miracle. And it’s gathering steam. Yet to hear the Enemedia — and some conservatives — talk, the exact opposite is true. To them it’s all “muh gas prices.” Which is funny since the average gas price under Joe Biden was higher than the average during Trump’s second term, even with the war. Something is seriously amiss. If incomes are rising faster than prices, it isn’t affordability. It certainly isn’t household wealth. The income figure measures the household in the middle. Elon Musk getting richer can’t drag it upward the way he could an average. And the $2,250 gain in 2025 alone is what remains after adjusting for higher prices. People who spent years watching inflation eat their raises are finally getting ahead. Dismissing that isn’t showing concern for working families: it’s just myopic. And electing the people who gave you all that inflation — and promised to “skyrocket” energy prices to force everyone into an EV — isn’t even sane. That GDP number is especially striking. Remember that much ballyhooed 1.5 percent second-quarter headline that had the pundits celebrating Trump’s “failure?” I told you then: they were looking at the wrong number. What they were seeing wasn’t a slowdown in growth but a capex boom: the private economy spending its output to buy the equipment that would create an industrial supercycle. It’s happening. The ever-brilliant Larry Kudlow calls the burgeoning boom “the greatest story never told.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says we’ve entered the “acceleration phase,” as the tax changes and deregulation start to produce the results they were literally designed to produce. I’ve been explaining that process since early 2025. Yet conservatives continue to buy the left’s lies. It’s time to stop. Working Families Are Getting Ahead Starting with Bill Clinton, America’s ruling class told us manufacturing was gone forever. China would build; we would consume. Russia and the Middle East would supply the energy. Europe would regulate. America would borrow, import, and manage its “inevitable” decline and displacement by more dynamic powers. Trump rejected every part of that nonsense. The workers now getting those bigger paychecks have every reason to be glad he did. Their employers aren’t just buying equipment and building new factories: they're bidding up the price of the people who know how to use them. They’re training even more. Nor is the capex boom ending anytime soon. Trump went out and recruited an incredible $18 trillion of investment into the United States in his first months in office. Equipment shipments have risen at an 18.9 percent annual rate in just the latest three months. And just yesterday, the President announced the largest steel plant in American history, a $15 billion titan set to begin construction in Iowa. The President also negotiated trade deals that pried open foreign markets to U.S. manufacturers; he also exempted foreign companies from tariffs if they begin building plants here. And as a condition of those trade deals — now finalized with countries representing 67 percent of global GDP — he forced countless countries accustomed to buying their energy from Russia and the Persian Gulf to buy it from the Gulf of America instead. The construction workers are building the plants and refineries. The roughnecks are drilling the wells. There will be years of work completing them, and much, much more work running them thereafter. How did that happen? Trump changed the tax code, and thus the incentives for investment. His One Big Beautiful Bill made immediate business expensing permanent for equipment, and added full expensing for qualifying American production facilities. Combined with unprecedented deregulation plus the trade deals, suddenly there’s no better place to build a factory than right here. Meanwhile, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, and no taxes on Social Security (and what sort of obscenity is taxing Social Security anyway?!) help the bottom rung even more than the top. “Those jobs are never coming back” was a lie, calculated to cover for (intentional) Democrat failures. There was a time when an American family could live on one breadwinner’s blue-collar wages. That day is coming back, fast. An economy “growing” at Obama’s stultifying 1.6 percent takes nearly half a century to double. Young people can’t find jobs because they’re already taken: they’re locked out of their futures for half their lifetimes, and locked into dependency on the socialists. That is, after all, the goal. But an economy growing at 5 percent doubles in size in just 14 years. That translates into so much hiring so fast that labor shortages have to be cured by ever-higher wages. It also translates into so much tax revenue, even at lower rates, that you don’t just reduce the deficit: you start paying off the debt, as we did for four straight years before 9/11. Folks, this ain’t rocket science. This is the difference between Jimmy Carter’s economy and Ronald Reagan’s. It’s not like we haven’t seen this play before. Bessent calls it “parallel prosperity.” Wall Street and Main Street can both do well at once. A profitable company is sustainable: it expands, hires people, trains them, and pays them more. An unprofitable company does none of those things. Yet the “Democratic Socialist” treats the profits that make prosperity possible as an offense, one that must be crushed in the name of “social justice.” That’s the choice on November’s ballot. More Production, Less Inflation Nowhere is that point more obvious than deregulation, anathema to the Democrats. Trump has eliminated 129 regulations for every new one: there’s nothing like it in history. Which party do you think issued most of those in the first place? Not ours. A company wants to build; it has customers waiting; it can raise the money. But then it spends years waiting for government to let it proceed. Supposedly the delay protects us. But from what is it protecting us exactly? More goods? Better jobs? The possibility that somebody might make a profit? In the midst of the Depression, the Empire State Building was completed in just 13 months. Good luck getting a permit in even twice that time in today’s New York. A process that makes it prohibitively expensive to produce in America sends that production somewhere else. It doesn’t abolish the need for the product. Americans still buy it, but workers in some other country collect the paychecks. Democrats piled on regulations — and taxes — year after year, amounting to a multi-trillion-dollar burden on the U.S. economy and those pathetic “growth” rates that steal young people’s futures. Trump is rolling them back. Leftwing economists have long fretted (as they have about global warming, and global cooling, and global overpopulation, and the Ozone hole, and “Peak Oil”, and “two weeks to flatten the curve”) that all this new production will cause inflation. But this Phillips Curve nonsense was discredited 50 years ago: the truth is exactly the opposite. Production isn’t the enemy of price stability: it’s the means by which supply catches demand. The answer to a shortage of something Americans need is to make more of it. And if supply is plentiful, prices fall. Likewise, the “expert” class assured us that we needed to lower our expectations, that a “mature economy” can only grow at a lower rate: all the dynamic gains must come from developing economies like China’s. Yet what the heck is a mature economy? If you’d asked anyone in 1900, they’d have said they had one, just before nearly everything we have was invented. We are entering another such period, with AI and countless other new technologies promising productivity gains beyond anything we’ve ever seen. A worker with better tools can produce much more in the same hour, earning a higher wage without increasing the labor cost of each item he produces. And like Reagan before him, President Trump has laid a foundation that sets America up to dominate the next half century. Go Tell Our Story: The Election Is On You So why aren’t Republicans making this case every day? And no, I don’t mean “the Republicans” in Washington. Trump’s doing more than any President before him. Congress, however flawed, has enacted much of his legislation. The leaders aren’t the problem. We are. Historically, the President’s party — whichever President’s party — loses the midterms. But they don’t have to. Midterms are low-turnout elections, which means “every little thing we do is magic.” No need to appeal to the middle, no need to persuade the socialists. Just talk to your own friends and physically take them to the polls. To keep the majority, all we need is 1,000 extra votes in 20 House races — just four extra votes per precinct. Want to make a difference? You can. But that also means that if you don’t, you’re responsible. Republicans need to stop acting like entitled children, and start taking responsibility for their neighbors and their futures. It’s time to tell our story, over and over again. Record real household income and record-low poverty are a pretty great story to tell. So is the lowest murder rate in 126 years, a 99.9 percent reduction in illegal border crossings, or a thousand other things. Five percent GDP growth is exactly the boom Trump promised. And the equipment arriving at new American factories gives us every reason to expect more. This is nothing else but the greatest story never told. So go and tell it.

Justin Verlander’s career comes to a close as he leaves the mound for the final time, called by @Greg_Gania and Dan Petry for 97.1 The Ticket: #DNMW #RepDetroit

@WilliamShatner On Elons’s first mission to Mars, the crew sees you and the Enterprise.

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Todd Beamer was the passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 who rallied fellow passengers to fight back against the 9/11 hijackers with the phrase "Let's roll" and stopped it from reaching Washington, DC. This is his daughter, Morgan, who was born 4 months after his death and

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We all probably have a favorite Dolly story, this one’s mine 🥹

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy. She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid. The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%. She handed out the checks herself. In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college. When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months. You've probably heard that part. Here's the part you haven't: The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top. Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave. She built her county an entire hospital. She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it. In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees. Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal. In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release. And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it. She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway. She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did. Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

Where is .@SenMcConnell, and what is the truth about his health? U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell has been completely missing from the public eye for over ten weeks following a severe mid-June health scare. While his office continually insists that he is actively working from home and managing crucial legislative strategy—-his complete refusal to release a quick video or call into a news outlet raises massive transparency questions. If he is truly fully capable of coordinating complex decisions with staff and Senate leadership, there is absolutely no reason why he cannot provide a brief, live sign of life to the taxpayers he represents. The reality is that questions about his physical and mental capacity to do his job didn't start with his recent hospitalization. Newly leaked videos from early June floor votes show that McConnell was already visibly incapable of casting his votes correctly on his own. During those intense sessions, a Senate assistant, along with Republican leaders .@johnthune and John Barrasso, had to physically step in, huddle around him, and actively guide his hand and instruct him on how to vote. If McConnell was already dependent on handlers and colleagues just to function on the Senate floor weeks before his official medical absence, his current ten-week disappearance looks less like a routine recovery and more like a deliberate effort to shield his decline from voters. Constituents are completely justified in demanding proof of his capacity to serve. Public power belongs to the people, and treating a vital Senate seat like a tightly guarded secret is a disservice to the voters who deserve actual representation. What do you think? Is it time for McConnell to step up to a camera, or is it time for him to step aside?

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The actual quote, which I just retrieved, is actually more brilliant than that: "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide." Look at the last word. Suicide...suicidal empathy.

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2 months ago

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms, it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within."

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One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years ago. The result is a strange sort of projection, in which the Left’s charges often reveal its own prior wrongdoing. And after undermining norms, they now lament the loss of what they destroyed. victorhanson.com/whos-been-dest…

I asked Professor Angus Dalgleish (Professor of Oncology at St. George's University of London and one of the world's leading cancer immunologists) whether he believed the COVID vaccine was creating turbo cancers. He said yes, and that after reviewing over 400 publications on the subject the mechanisms are so numerous it's surprising there aren't more cases than we're already seeing. He walked me through several of them. The vaccine suppresses T-cell response and switches the antibody system into a tolerant state, essentially converting the body into a condition similar to transplant readiness, where it won't reject a foreign organ and won't reject a cancer. It can integrate into the genome next to oncogenes. The Pfizer vaccine contains SV40, a known oncogene. It interferes with dozens of metabolic and signaling pathways that, when overstimulated, drive cancer and don't switch off. The mechanism that concerns him most is the vaccine's ability to bind and silence tumor suppressor genes like p53 and BRCA. If someone already carries a natural mutation in one of those genes, their cancer arrives 20 or 30 years earlier than it otherwise would have. Interfere with more than two or three of these pathways simultaneously and you pull it forward even further, and when the cancer does arrive, the brakes are gone. In nearly 40 years he said he's never seen anything like the presentations he's seeing now. He said we should ban all mRNA vaccines, because they aren't vaccines, they're gene therapies, and giving them to children can interfere with their genome for the rest of their lives. He called allowing these products to go into young people, when we knew none of them were at risk of dying, criminal medical negligence and the crime of the century.