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6:15 CEO of MCQ Markets, Curt Hopkins, discusses the terrible business decision that Jaguar has made by launching a woke ad campaign, with the misguided belief that it will somehow reignite their failing business.
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7:10 State Rep. Dwayne Yunker –
Rep. Dwayne Yunker Demands Federal Action to
Halt Oregon’s Lawless Climate Program
State Representative Dwayne Yunker (R – Grants Pass) is blasting the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission’s Nov. 21 reinstatement of the Climate Protection Program, calling it “a blatant attempt to end-run the Oregon legislature’s mandate against cap-and-trade and defy the courts.” In a letter sent today to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, Yunker requested the immediate suspension of $197 million in federal climate funding until a full federal investigation of Oregon’s Climate Protection Program could be conducted.
“The Environmental Quality Commission is ignoring both the legislature and a 2023 court ruling to ram through a disastrous, anti-human policy,” said Yunker. “This is a lawless, deep-state agenda that will drive up gas prices, crush small businesses, and hurt rural families—all for empty promises of climate benefits. The EPA must intervene to stop this madness.”
Yunker’s letter emphasizes how the Climate Protection Program mirrors failed cap-and-trade policies explicitly rejected by the Oregon Legislature, further exacerbating its disregard for democratic oversight. It also highlights the program’s reliance on biofuels, which increases environmental harm, and criticizes the state’s failure to provide transparency or accountability in its handling of federal funds.
Learn more about the EQC’s Nov. 21 decision here:: https://www.oregon.gov/deq/about-us/eqc/Pages/202411.aspx
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7:35 Dr. Dennis Powers, www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The Black Tornado’s Triple Crown (1959-’60)
By Dennis Powers
Once becoming Medford’s football coach in 1948, Fred Spiegelberg turned Medford into a football dynasty. His teams had a 253-62-10 record in 31 years as its head coach. He guided the Black Tornado to three state championships, one co-championship, 17 Southern Oregon Conference titles, and five conference co-titles with the first state title in 1959. This team went 12-0 that year and outscored its opponents 472-78. Scott Spiegelberg was the starting quarterback on Medford’s 1959 state championship team; in the championship game, Medford won a close 7-6 battle over Portland (Jefferson High School).
In basketball, Medford High’s 6’- 4” Bob Quinney jumped against Marshfield’s 7-foot-plus Mel Counts in the Class 4A state championship basketball game at Eugene’s McArthur Court in early 1960. However, he and his Black Tornado teammates took the ball at Counts enough times to foul him out early in the second half, and Medford secured a 63-56 victory.
In baseball that season, Lowell Dean smacked a 350-foot home run in the fourth inning of the state championship game against Parkrose. The solo shot tied the game at 1-1, and Medford went on to a 3-1 victory to complete the three-some. The clean sweep of the major sports triple-crown of football, basketball, and baseball has rarely been matched by a Class 4A or 5A school in Oregon. (The only other triple-crown schools were North Valley in 1984-85 at the 2A level (3A was the highest level back then), and Banks in 2018-19 at the 4A level (there are now higher 6A and 5A levels).
The athletes that year stood out. Dick Ragsdale was a quarterback in football, a guard in basketball, and an infielder in baseball, earning first-team all-conference in each sport.
He earned a scholarship to Stanford and was a standout defensive back for the Cardinal; following the 1964 season, he landed a berth in the East-West Shrine Game, where he was joined by Lowell Dean, a former Tornado teammate who played collegiately at Oregon.
Joining them on the West squad was future NFL Hall of Fame halfback Gale Sayers of Kansas, while East squad adversaries included two other Hall of Famers–quarterback Roger Staubach of Navy and linebacker Dick Butkus of Illinois. After earning his undergraduate and law degree at Stanford, Ragsdale practiced law in New Jersey. He then tackled a different sport–rugby–and was inducted into the Stanford Hall of Fame for that sport.
Ken Durkee was the hero of the 1959 state championship football game matching No. 1-ranked Medford and No. 2-ranked Jefferson of Portland when he ran a punt back 77 yards for the Black Tornado’s only touchdown in a 7-6 victory. He was a starting guard on the Medford High basketball team that went 23-3 and beat Marshfield in the 1960 state championship game. Six games into the baseball season, on April 10, 1960, he was paralyzed from the waist down from a car accident while heading to a pear orchard to light up smudge pots along Foothill Road. The baseball team dedicated its season to Durkee, and it added the school’s third state championship in six months with its 3-1 win in June of 1960. Durkee remained an avid fan of Medford high school sports and kept up his optimistic life, including being on the sidelines of later games in his wheelchair.
The Black Tornado fielded nearly as much talent in the following year (1960-’61), but didn’t win a state title, although coming close. The football team steamrolled its first 10 opponents by an average score of 44-8 but suffered a stunning, 20-14 upset loss to David Douglas High School (Portland) in the state semifinals. In basketball, Medford again advanced to the state championship game, although this time against Southern Oregon Conference rival Klamath Union. Owing to a last-second score by the KU team, Medford lost on the wrong end of a 68-66 score. In baseball, the team that year didn’t make the state finals.
It is not possible to mention all of the heroes for the triumphant Tornadoes in the 1959-’60 school year; but it is certainly part of our regional history.
Sources: Sources: Don Hunt, “Former Medford High star Durkee dies of pneumonia,” Mail Tribune, February 26, 2003; Don Hunt, “Bob Quinney,” Mail Tribune, April 2, 2004; Don Hunt, “Ragsdale able to garner attention even amongst stars,” Mail Tribune, November 28, 2020.
8:10 A great conversation on globalist conspiracy with Joel Skousen, editor of World Affairs Brief = www.WorldAffairsBrief.com (Free sample there) I’m a subscriber and find Joel’s POV thought-provoking, including the mistakes conservatives make about Russia, the fake collapse of the Soviet Union, and discerning who is REALLY a “Deep State” plant.