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In 1942, Navy Signalman 3rd Class Elgin Staples was serving on the USS Astoria as they supported the landings that were being made on Guadalcanal. They fought well into the night. A brilliant beam cut across the water, and a Japanese cruiser’s spotlight illuminated Staples and his crewmates. The fight was on. At approximately 2 a.m. on August 9th, one of Astoria’s turrets was hit and exploded, flinging Staples and many others overboard. More than 200 men aboard died. Badly injured by shrapnel in one leg, Staples only managed to stay afloat thanks to his inflatable life belt. In the...

Hilary Clinton has given Huma Abedin and Bradley Cooper's relationship her blessings, an insider revealed By Web DeskAugust 06, 2022 Hillary Clinton is happy for her top aide, Huma Abedin, who has been dating Hollywood star, Bradley Cooper. Page Six reported that Abedin, 46, has been quietly dating the Hangover actor, 47, for a few months. The outlet has recently revealed, “Hillary absolutely approves of Huma dating Bradley.” “Hillary sees Huma as a second daughter, and has given their relationship her blessing,” a source told the outlet.

Country star Wynonna Judd is planning to formally contest her late mother’s will which left her $25million fortune to her husband. Naomi Judd, who was a long-time singing partner of Wynonna, as The Judds, left her two daughters out of her will in a baffling move. Both Wynonna, 58, and Ashley did not feature in the will, and did not get any part of her estate, with the Nashville superstar leaving everything to her widower Larry Strickland.

Complaints by veteran soldiers about younger generations who lack discipline and traditional values are as old as war itself. Grizzled veterans in the Greek phalanx, Roman legions, and Napoleon’s elite corps all believed that the failings of the young would be the ruin of their armies. This is not the chief worry of grizzled American veterans today. The largest threat they see by far to our current military is the weakening of its fabric by radical progressive (or “woke”) policies being imposed, not by a rising generation of slackers, but by the very leaders charged with ensuring their readiness. Wokeness...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said she believes the Republican Party is "very sick" and may not be able to recover in the near future. The GOP "is continuing to drive itself in a ditch, and I think it’s going to take several cycles if it can be healed," Cheney said, according to The New York Times. "I would much rather serve with (Democratic Reps.) Mikie Sherrill and Chrissy Houlahan and Elissa Slotkin than (Republican Reps.) Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, even though on substance certainly I have big disagreements with the Democratic women I just mentioned," Cheney added, per...

With the midterm elections three months away, Americans maintain a sour view on the state of the economy and are pessimistic about its future course, with President Joe Biden’s approval rating across a range of issue areas continuing to suffer, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. More than two-thirds (69%) of Americans think the nation’s economy is getting worse — the highest that measure has reached since 2008, when it was 82% in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Currently, only 12% think the economy is getting better and 18% think it is essentially staying the same. Americans' views of...

n the grips of monomania, psychotic people perseverate on their object of interest. They talk about their enthusiasm incessantly and believe, wrongly, that everyone else is similarly inclined. America’s establishment, left and right, and the media, are obsessed with Donald J. Trump. Trump’s tweets, his pretend press releases, his real ones, doesn’t matter. He occupies every neuron and inflames them. With each sweaty proclamation, the monomaniacs sound increasingly unhinged. Dick Cheney called Donald Trump the greatest threat to humanity and America and all that is good and decent. And also, he’s proud of his daughter because she staked her whole...

A different look at today's readings of Peparation, from the Bishop... Looking at our calling to go deeper, farther, away from our comfort- and trusting in God for an amazing journey- We are urged to make this journey made possible through Christ. 14 min. YouTube link below:Go On A Heroes Journey

Former President Donald Trump once again talked about overhauling the administrative state on Saturday, telling a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas that the next Congress and president need to “remove rogue bureaucrats and root out the deep state.”Trump told the CPAC audience:As we secure the border, another key priority for the next Congress and the next President will be to drain the swamp once and for all to remove rogue bureaucrats and root out the deep state. Congress should pass groundbreaking reform empowering the president to ensure that any federal employee who is corrupt, incompetent,...

A former Heritage High School student was sentenced Friday to 10 years behind bars in a shooting that wounded two students at the school last fall.Circuit Court Judge Christopher Papile sentenced Jacari Taylor — who was 15 at the time of the September shooting and is now 16 — to a blended sentence that will include juvenile detention and state prison time. Prosecutors said Taylor and a 17-year-old student were arguing in the school cafeteria One bullet entered behind the 17-year-old’s left ear, lodging in his lower left jaw, with the teen also struck in the leg and finger. Another...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre. Note: Videos are usually taken down from youtube as soon as the livecast is over (depending on content that could offend the leftist narrative) and they are moved to Odysee. This link may only work for the livestream. Use the link below for the Odysee backup channel to find the archive and view later if the youtube link does not work. Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure...

Sen. Lindsey Graham gave credit Sunday to President Biden for several bipartisan legislative accomplishments, such as on infrastructure, gun control and social media. The praise from the South Carolina Republican came as Senate Democrats were advancing their tax and climate spending bill along party lines, a move that has infuriated Republicans amid the highest inflation rate in four decades. “He’s signed things that made sense. The infrastructure bill, the gun thing, we’ve been working on this for years. We sort of found the sweet spot,” Mr. Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We worked on the EARN IT...

Here we go again. Another county — this time San Bernardino — is threatening to break away from California to form its own state. Petitions and plots of this sort pop up almost annually but then invariably fizzle. Yet however quixotic state division may seem, it has a much deeper, grimmer history than most Californians recognize. A real estate developer and two mayors in the Inland Empire are the latest would-be secessionists. San Bernardino County, they argue, should be a state unto itself. With 2.2 million residents, it would be more populous than 15 other states. They’ve dubbed the unborn...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute former President Donaold Trump, “I and the other members of the January 6 Committee have done the hard part. We’ve made the accusations, compiled and edited the taped depositions, and heard the hearsay testimony. Now it’s time for the DOJ to concoct a case against him and take him down.” Her father, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, concurred, calling Trump “a coward who should never again hold the reins of power.” The list of Trump’s cowardly behaviors cited by the former VP included “his traitorous opposition to the...

A mother of two boys, ages seven and eight, woke up Saturday morning thinking she'd be heading home. But then an email from American Airlines changed everything. Sarah Ripmaster was supposed to fly back home from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday, until she realized that American had rebooked her, but not her kids. Ripmaster said the first thing she felt when she realized what had happened was fear. "I woke up in New York City yesterday to a notice that our flight to ORD had been cancelled due to lack of crew. I had a...

The New Radicals' official music video for 'You Get What You Give'. As featured in the 2021 playlist for the Biden Presidential Inauguration.

VIDEOHave you noticed how the media tempo of repeating "Election Denier" as if it were a magic incantation has picked up its pace recently? It is the all too obvious tell of media bias especially since none of them declared Stacey Abrams to be an "Election Denier" after she denied the result of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. Among the worst of "Election Denier" chanters is CNN which is ironic since its new CEO is now desperately trying to get Republicans to appear on his network again. Perhaps those Republicans should declare themselves to be "Appearance Deniers" unless CNN ditches...

Berlin has realized it will never again import as much energy from Russia as before the Ukraine war. So the challenge is to wean Germany off its dependence on Russian energy sources, and quickly. The question is how. Starting this week, German hard coal-fired power stations are restarting operations, which were being phased out because of the hugely detrimental climate impact on a world already ravaged by global warming. Germany's goal had been to phase out all coal-generated electricity by 2038. But now, the government is swallowing the bitter pill of allowing coal-fired power back onto the grid. At the...

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’”-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1997, in his final book, TimequakeI have been hearing from people who feel very much alone. People who are grateful that I and many others are speaking up and out. We who speak up are publicly analyzing trends and claims. We refuse to kowtow to authoritarians, including the ones who wear lab coats or have fancy degrees or work at legacy...