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Stone Lake Museum to present talk about B-52 crash Paul Mitchell Jul 9, 2018 Russ Voight (above) hangs a replica in the Stone Lake Historical Society Museum of the B-52 bomber which he built in commemoration of the crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber southeast of Stone Lake while on a training mission in November, 1966. Voight served in the Strategic Air Command and worked on B-52s, which are 160 feet long and have a 185-foot wing span. Photos by Terrell Boettcher sybert Tom Sybert places a replica in the museum garden of the memorial he installed at...

Massachusetts State Police are on the lookout for a man who reportedly flashed a woman while she was jogging on a public trail. The incident took place around 7:30 a.m. on July 18 along the Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The suspect allegedly exposed himself the to victim who was running in the opposite direction, according to the press release. A video of the incident that was released by police shows the moments after the alleged flashing when two appear to exchange words as they pass one another, running in opposite directions. Seconds later, the victim turns around to confront...

A New Mexico woman with a hankering for Sonic, left the bill to a higher power, reportedly telling the restaurant employee, “This one’s on God” before she took off. According to Las Cruces Sun News, local resident Delila Hernandez, 30, rode her bike to the fast-food joint this week and placed an order. When the server told her the amount she owed, Hernandez allegedly said, "This one's on God." The employee replied, “That’s not how this works” and refused to give Hernandez the food. But she allegedly lunged at him to grab her order. Fearful, reported Las Cruces Sun News,...

While Democrats in the House of Representatives continue to rumble about impeachment, requesting documents from the Mueller report they say are necessary to move in that direction, Trump gave Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify any documents the DOJ has related to their “investigation into the investigators” and turn them over to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee.

Politics destroys both moral compasses and perspective. In “Will future museums study our migrant cages?” (7/21/19), readers of the Washington Post are presented an article about the Hirshhorn exhibit detailing the architecture of Auschwitz prison cells. Auschwitz is notorious as one of the most evil, sadistic murder sites ever constructed on this planet -- the consequence of Nazi Germany’s “final solution” to murder the Jews of Europe. At least one million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz. The murdering only stopped when Soviet troops approached the camps toward the end of WWII. The Post can’t help themselves by interjecting the question...

Another Jew-hater at CNN: Muslim host of digital tech show tweeted “I love you Hitler” JUL 27, 2019 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER Yesterday it was Mohammed Elshamy; today it is Kareem Farid. It is becoming clearer that this is mainstream, acceptable thought at CNN, which would never dream of hiring an accused “Islamophobe.” “Another CNN Personality’s Antisemitic Tweets Unearthed: ‘I Love You Hitler,’” by Hannah Bleau, Breitbart, July 26, 2019 (thanks to Inexion): Another CNN personality who was presenting on the CNN Arabic network as recently as last week appears to have expressed a series of antisemitic sentiments on...

President Trump Building Economic Landscape for 2020…Earlier today President Trump sent a warning tweet about Apple possibly incurring tariffs on their products if they continue a plan for manufacturing in China. Later in the day the president answered direct questions about those possible tariffs. Additionally, Secretary Wilbur Ross was very insightful when he also spoke of the current U.S. perspective toward the U.S-China trade negotiation. If you have followed the basic road-map of America-First, there’s a very clear picture; however, most pundits and trade analysts will likely ignore the message. [Apple will not be given Tariff waivers, or relief, for...

Nobody in the state seems to like the job Utah's congressional delegation is doing in Washington, and they don't much care for Republicans and Democrats in Congress or the Utah Legislature, either. No Utah member of Congress cracked even a 45 percent approval rating in a UtahPolicy.com and Y2 Analytics poll released Friday. "I think voters are disgusted in general with Washington, D.C., and what's happening there and the lack of progress no matter who is in control," said LaVarr Webb, UtahPolicy.com publisher.

As Coloradans consider Proposition CC and the fate of our Taxpayer Bill of Rights this November, we should bear in mind the lessons of Novembers past. In 2005, voters were promised that if the state were allowed to keep the excess revenue that should have been refunded to taxpayers under TABOR, the money would be used to boost education spending. Referendum C was approved, but the money never made it to the classroom. “Spending on programs not associated with Referendum C has grown more than twice as fast as spending on education and health care,” former state Treasurer Mark Hillman...

HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Ted Cruz is the latest to #WalkAwayFromNike, tweeting on Tuesday that he's gotten all new shoes and bags from Adidas and donated his old Nike gear to Goodwill.

Staff for former special counsel Robert Mueller issued a warning to Democrats eager to have him testify about his investigation into Russian election interference. Days after Mueller delivered shaky testimony to two congressional panels, a report said Mueller's team denied rumors that the 74-year-old's cognitive acuity was wavering and that prompted Democrats to compel him to appear publicly. However, before and after a reluctant Mueller was subpoenaed, Mueller's staff told the Democrats, some of whom have cited Mueller's report as a blueprint for impeachment, that their boss would not stray from what was already disclosed in his unredacted 448-page report.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading presidential candidate, warned on Monday that the next financial crises is on its way. Surprisingly, that dire prediction was mocked by Politico's chief economic correspondent, Ben White, the same day on CNBC's The Exchange. Only a few days before, White had been giving Warren some praise by writing that Wall Street wouldn't be too worried about her as president. This contrast makes White's change in tone even more noteworthy. Here are White's comments on CNBC in which he declares that Warren is using bad numbers for her forecast.

Roman poet Virgil penned these words in his epic, The Aeneid, roughly a generation before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. They can be loosely translated to, “the descent to hell is easy.” Those who’ve traversed this passage can attest to the veracity of this axiom. Though not apparent in the milieu of Virgil’s poem, for our purposes today, we’ll extend its application to the insidious progression of currency debasement. What short utterance more aptly characterizes the steady degradation, as currently practiced by today’s church of state? Yesterday [Thursday], for example, the House acted with untroubled ease to further America’s...

The massive spending deal, negotiated by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and agreed to by the president, looks poised to kill off the Budget Control Act of 2011—the law that was meant to restrain federal spending. With that law on the way out, the question arises: Where can fiscal conservatives turn to exert real and lasting fiscal discipline? Thankfully, two members of Congress have introduced a bill to do just that. The Maximizing America’s Prosperity Act—or MAP Act—is a bill proposed by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., that would limit federal spending...

Dish Network Corp. has stopped carrying 22 regional sports networks owned by the Walt Disney Co. as negotiations over a new distribution contract broke down. The channels, which went dark Friday morning on Dish and its direct-to-consumer streaming platform Sling, are the sports networks that Disney acquired in its $71.3 billion acquisition of the bulk of entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox earlier this year. Disney is in the process of selling 21 of the regional sports networks to Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. in a deal valued at more than $10 billion. The one other channel—New York’s YES Network, which...

You’ll want to be ready if you find yourself on the receiving end of a Kate Hall medicine ball toss. I wasn’t. During a midday early May workout, Hall recruited me to catch her throws and roll the ball back to her. I moved to the middle of the infield at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland, Maine. From just inside the track, Hall sprang forward and heaved the 8-pound ball. Next thing I knew, the ball landed just in front of me, bounced, and crashed into my chest. It left a red mark on my sternum that lingered for a week....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., decried on Saturday what she described as a “racist” attack by President Trump on Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., -- after the president called the chairman of the House Oversight Committee a “brutal bully” and said his Baltimore district was “more dangerous” than the southern border.

President Donald Trump called one of the top-ranking Congressional Democrats a “brutal bully” early July 27 before lamenting the conditions in the representative’s home district.

Two 16-year-old teenagers have been charged with robbing a Baltimore Police Department deputy commissioner at gunpoint. The arrests of Kathree Fowlkes and Kamal Godwin was announced Friday. They were charged with armed robbery and are being prosecuted as adults, Fox 45 reported.

A balcony inside a nightclub in South Korea collapsed on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 16, including American and other athletes at the world swimming championships, officials said. Hundreds were at the nightclub in the southern city of Gwangju when the collapse occurred next to the athletes’ village. Two South Korean men died while 16 others were injured, police said. According to a police account, the injured include 10 foreigners, eight of them athletes who were in Gwangju to participate in the swimming championships. Among the athletes were three Americans, two New Zealanders, one Dutch, one Italian and one...