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The assault by power-drunk tech giants on topics, viewpoints and subject matters that don’t conform with the current approved, bien pensant orthdoxy continues. ARFCOM has just posted this tweet announcing that GoDaddy has booted them from their service. Because they can.

Full title: Top YouTube Historians, Led By ‘The Great War’ Host, Are Teaming Up To Recap World War II, Day By Day **** Since 2014, historian Indy Neidell has hosted weekly episodes of The Great War, a web series that recaps World War I by discussing in real time the events that happened 100 years ago. At the show’s current point, the United States has joined the war and its preparing to send its manpower to the Western Front. By the end of next year (spoiler alert), the war will reach its conclusion, and Neidell will have to find a...

WWII patrol-torpedo (PT) boats were a perfect naval expression of the American Spirit at war. Today, just four of these combat-veteran PT boats still exist in the United States. PT-305 is the only one that is fully restored. Now, after a $3.3 million restoration effort and more than 100,000 hours of work by a dedicated corps of over 200 volunteers, PT-305 is ready to hit the water.

A man was killed in a Christmas Eve shooting inside the crowded Oakwood Center mall, and a suspect has been arrested, the Jefferson Parish sheriff said. Sheriff Newell Normand said the shooting occurred about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 24) at the Footlocker shoe store. The victim, identified by authorities as 24-year-old Harvey resident James Vaughn, had just made a purchase when a gunman walked up and opened fire from about three feet away, Normand said. At least three shots were fired, he said. The gunman ran, but a suspect was taken into custody several blocks away from the mall after...

METAIRIE, La. -- 'Tis the season for Santa mall portraits and kids riding a toy train around a massive holiday display inside Lakeside Shopping Center. However, the designer is once again ruffling feathers. The Gretna-based firm made light of Hurricane Katrina and now it's setting its sights on the Affordable Health Care Act. At first glance the candy canes, whistling children's train and snow-covered Christmas display appears harmless. Until you look twice. "Oh my goodness. I'm lost for words basically," said New Orleans resident Tamany Diaz. "People need to see that," said Metairie resident Joe Duhon. Whether you agree with...

BATON ROUGE, LA - The Mall of Louisiana has been closed and evacuated after a fight broke out between dozens of young people Saturday evening. Deputies were called to the food court area around 6 p.m. and said the troublemakers quickly dispersed to other areas of the mall. No injuries were reported though several ambulances were dispatched to the area and initial reports of shots fired were apparently incorrect. However, at least one eyewitness reported a chaotic and scary scene in the second floor food court.

Al Armendariz said Monday morning that he had submitted a letter of resignation on Sunday. Armendariz was already a lightning rod for conservative critics of the EPA in Texas before last week, when a video became public in which Armendariz spoke of "crucifying" oil and gas companies that broke the law. Members of Congress and Texas officials jumped on Armendariz's words as proof that he had run the EPA's regional office as an anti-industry zealot. The environmental engineer, on leave from a professor post at Southern Methodist University, sent a letter Monday to his friends and supporters:

A broad area of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche associated with a tropical wave is producing disorganized cloudiness and showers. Upper-level winds are currently not conducive for development, however these winds are forecast to become more favorable over the next couple of days.

"Fuller told KGUN9 he meant no harm when he pointed a camera at a Tea Party activist and said, "you're dead." He said he was trying to make a point about how easy access to guns makes it easy to kill... He already believed guns are too easy to obtain when he became one of the shooting victims January 8th. A week later he was part of a town hall meeting sponsored by ABC News. When Tucson Tea Party leader Trent Humphries suggested it was too soon to talk about tighter gun control, Fuller did something that got him arrested....

THE NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM PACIFIC EXHIBIT GRAND OPENING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2001 PEALING OF THE BELLS Commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 Citywide 7:55 AM USN/USCG/MARAD PORT VISIT, Day One Mississippi River at New Orleans Riverfront Ship Tours - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Free Admission PACIFIC VICTORY PARADE WITH AERIAL REVIEW Ernest M. Morial Convention Center Loop, Downtown New Orleans 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GATHERING OF EAGLES -- Part I WWII Pacific Campaign Reunion and Festival Ernest M. Morial Convention Center - Hall F Following Parade 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM ...

I bumped into this information on a site called "The Political Graveyard" (I can't recall the URL at this time... it's late!), but I do believe that Palm Beach County is represented in Congress by this fine, upstanding citizen: "Hastings, Alcee (Lamar) (b. 1936) Born in Altamonte Springs, Fla., September 5, 1936. Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 1979-89; U.S. Representative from Florida 23rd District, 1993-. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges..." It looks like the Floridians just couldn't stand to see ol' Alcee go, so they elected ...