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Our readers are finding this photo at Fort Snelling National Cemetery worth sharing again, eight years after columnist Jon Tevlin wrote about it.

President Trump’s decision to give Attorney General William Barr a free hand in determining which documents related to the intelligence community’s covert operation to take down the Trump Administration can be opened to public inspection has led to major consternation among Democratic Party luminaries. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) called the move to inform the general public “a cover-up and un-American. Secrecy is essential if our guardians are to keep us safe from the type of threat the election of Trump posed for our country. Granted, mistakes may have been made, but they were all...

This Week's Bonus Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Albert Einstein. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Bonus puzzle created for a long Saturday afternoon. Note: Today's regular puzzle can be located here.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid)...

Sometimes you write about the most obvious thing in the world because it is the most important thing. Reaction to the outcome of Robert Mueller’s investigation shows Americans again how divided we are. If you are more or less of the left, you experienced the probe as a search for truth that would restore the previous world of politics. Instead the traitor got away with it and you feel destabilized, deflated. If you are of the Trumpian right, it was from the beginning an attempted coup, the establishment using everything it had to remove a force it could not defeat...

<p>A serial killer who terrorized Florida with a murderous spree that claimed 10 women in 1984 was put to death Thursday, his execution witnessed by a woman who survived one of his attacks and aided in his capture. Bobby Joe Long, 65, was pronounced dead... following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison. Long had no last words, simply closing his eyes as the procedure began, witnesses said.</p>

I was watching netflix last night I saw there was a new season of slasher. The first two seasons weren't too bad so decided to give number three a shot. The show starts rolling along and there's a hijab wearing Muslim female high school student. Shes as sweet as can be. She helps a man in need. We soon find out the man she helped is a "gasp" white supremacist who secretly hates Muslims. Soon after that the slasher strikes, beheading a victim. At that point the slutty daughter of the "gasp" white supremacist attacks the poor wonderful Muslim girl,...

In June of 1934, a United States Naval Review brought over 100 ships and more than 40,000 sailors to New York Harbor. Movietone News covered the event extensively. (original film footage much w/sound appx 18 mins)

Don't let their bright eyes, lolling tongues or doggy grins fool you -- Rhino, Rambo and Der aren't your average pups. The four-year-old Belgian Malinoises are retired mine detection dogs who have spent much of their lives working to clear explosives in Syria. Now they're back in the United States, working to transition to civilian life in the hopes of finding new homes. The work of mine detection dogs like Rhino, Rambo and Der have played "a critical role" in helping the recovery of areas liberated from ISIS, Jerry Guilbert, the chief of programs for the Office of Weapons Removal...

Charlies Daniels in Iraq in 2016. (Charlie Daniels Band Photo) In my youth, the holiday we celebrate this weekend was known as Decoration Day, which started in 1861 when a bouquet was placed on a Civil War veteran’s grave and continued as America paid homage and tribute to the men and women who paid the ultimate price in defense of America by “decorating” or placing flowers on the graves of fallen heroes. The name was changed to Memorial Day and became a federal holiday in 1971. America has lost over one million in our combined wars, and, by whatever...

President Trump is expected to appoint former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli to be the next director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Cuccinelli, regarded as an immigration hard-liner, would oversee the country’s lawful immigration system, including the citizenship processing and asylum claims. The move to replace Director Lee Francis Cissna comes after pressure from the White House for Cissna to step down, according to the New York Times.

A video of uncertain age (recently uploaded to Instagram by @504ollie) shows an unidentified man on a boat holding a gator by the neck, using its open mouth to puncture a can of Michelob Ultra. The man then slams the beer and tosses the gator back in the water, while a “Hell yeah” can be heard in the background. The @504ollie account changed its settings to private, but the video has been re-uploaded to multiple accounts, including Drunk People Doing Things, where it has garnered over 3 million views. [snip] Coincidentally, this is also the second video showing an unidentified...

Pope Francis said Saturday that abortion can never be condoned, even when the fetus is gravely sick or likely to die, and urged doctors and priests to support families to carry such pregnancies to term. Speaking to a Vatican-sponsored anti-abortion conference, Francis said the opposition to abortion isn’t a religious issue but a human one. “Is it licit to throw away a life to resolve a problem?” he asked. “Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?” […] His comments come as the abortion debate is again making headlines in the U.S. with state initiatives seeking to...

Actor Jon Voight praised President Trump in a pair of videos on Friday, urging Republicans to support the president amid calls for impeachment from House Democrats while declaring Trump "the greatest president" since Abraham Lincoln. The Oscar-winning actor, who has long voiced support for Trump, said in two videos posted to Twitter that Trump has his and other Republicans' "utmost respect and our love." "This job is not easy, for he's battling the left and their absurd words of destruction," Voight, 80, said. "Our nation has been built on the solid ground from our forefathers, and there is a moral...

As Reader’s Digest so astutely observes, CNN is omnipresent in airports. But why? Well, technically, what you’re watching is the CNN Airport Network, not CNN. CNN Airport Network caters its content specifically to people waiting in airports. At present, around 59 airports broadcast the network, and that’s the only place it plays. While they do play content similar to the content that you’ll find on CNN, you won’t find any news about commercial crashes or content that’s not family-friendly. And, not every airport plays the same content. That’s because CNN Airport Network lets airports request content and broadcast their own....

President Donald Trump has warned that he is planning to confront British Prime Minister Theresa May on the UK's role in "spying" on his 2016 presidential campaign.Despite her emotional public resignation during a Friday press conference, Mrs. May will still be PM during Trump's official state visit in June.President Trump said Friday that Attorney General William Barr will be taking his investigation of the Russia Probe's origins global and examine events in Great Britain, Australia, and Ukraine.

Federal district judges aren't emperors for the whole United States. Congress and the Supreme Court should both remind them of that reality. By issuing putatively national injunctions, Attorney General William Barr said in a May 21 speech to the American Law Institute: “One judge can, in effect, cancel the policy with the stroke of the pen. No official in the United States government [rightly] can exercise that kind of nationwide power, with the sole exception of the president. And the Constitution subjects him to nationwide election, among other constitutional checks, as a prerequisite to wielding that power.” The subject arises...

Donald Trump kicked off his state visit to Japan on Saturday by urging Japanese business leaders to increase investment in the US – but he also complained about his own central bank and knocked his hosts for having a “substantial edge” on trade, which he said negotiators were trying to even out. Leaving political turmoil behind him, Trump was nonetheless sent on his way by an anonymously sourced CNN report which said White House staffers dreaded and tried to avoid long trips on Air Force One, because the president rarely sleeps, busily tweets and demands their company. After 15 hours...

Yeah, he has him by the HEAD..! And the other pup is yanking in on his calf in the other direction like a pull toy..! You will see that this confrontation would have been easily avoided. It was extremely provoked with no pay-back encouragement by the owner at all. This very satisfying Muzzie Dog Attack Video goes on for 1.5 minutes as a thick, suddenly panicky crowd all around calls out and shrieks like a bunch of monkeys. One minute the crowd is a "brave" pack, one-sidedly throwing things at these two casually passing German Shepards being walked by their...

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper blasted President Trump on Friday night for directing Attorney General William Barr to declassify documents related to the surveillance of his campaign during the 2016 election, calling it "outrageous." "I see it as a very, very serious and outrageous move on the part of Mr. Trump, once again, trampling on the statutory authorities of the Director of National Intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies," Brennan told MSNBC host Chris Hayes. "And it's unclear to me what Mr. Barr is actually going to do. Is he investigating a...

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that he has started drafting and circulating a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, sounding the alarm about how the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) could codify big tech’s ability to censor conservatives. Rep. Gosar started drafting a letter to Robert Lighthizer, urging him to remove USMCA Article 19.17 that would enshrine technology companies’ legal immunity from Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that allows tech companies to censor on their platforms without significant legal recourse. Congressman Gosar told Breitbart News that America, Canada, and Mexico...