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The mysterious Ukrainian fighter pilot hailed as the “Ghost of Kyiv” after reportedly shooting down dozens of Russian aircraft has been killed in battle, an outlet said Friday. The death of the much-celebrated enigmatic pilot was reported by The Times of London, which for the first time also publicly identified Major Stepan Tarabalka, a 29-year-old father of one, as the war hero. Tarabalka was credited with taking out as many as 40 Russian aircraft until he was himself shot down March 13 while battling an “overwhelming” number of enemy forces, the UK paper said.

Semper fake! For years, Brooklyn commuters have opened their wallets for Robert McMahon, handing cash to this heroic and heartbreaking figure, a Vietnam vet in combat fatigues, his left arm missing and his right leg crippled, as he panhandles on Ocean Parkway in Kensington. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/but_fake_vet_limb_flam_man_SRdm9m4V2RRTY0jA7ziJxO#ixzz11yP51nHM

<p>Investigative reporter and talk show host Mark Morano (CNSNEWS and Rightalk.com) who broke the Murtha "fake but accurate" medals story appears on Howie Kurtz/CNN and scores one for the good guys!</p>

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Cary woman who attended Meredith College is charged with impersonating a military officer, fraud and other crimes. Investigators say Lisa Jane Phillips began attending the school in January 2002, wearing the uniform of an Air Force captain. She left a short time later, saying she had been deployed as a pilot to Afghanistan. Phillips returned to the college couple of months later with medals on the uniform she wore to class and stories of missions to Iraq and elsewhere. School officials waived her tuition of more than 42-thousand dollars because of her military service. But...

What's become of Teresa Heinz Kerry? Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner on March 1, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," chairwoman of Heinz Family Philanthropies and, up until Election Day, the highly visible better half of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. "Teresa Heinz will speak to her commitment to women's economic security, including Social Security and retirement," writes the council, not bothering to mention her married name in several references. "I just checked, and she no longer uses her [entire] last name; only during the [presidential] campaign did she...

Kerry's Toast Joseph Farah I was wrong. When I'm wrong, I admit it. And I was wrong. I was wrong when I predicted months ago that John F. Kerry would likely be our next president. I based my prediction on the fact that George W. Bush was a disappointing president and showed no signs of having a re-election plan in mind. That assessment hasn't changed at all. Bush hasn't done a thing to shore up his base or to energize the American people about his re-election. But something dramatic has occurred since my prognostication. Kerry's despicable war record – and,...

What kind of a historian is Douglas Brinkley anyway? These days Brinkley is acting a lot less like a historian and a lot more like a PR flack for John Kerry, the subject of Brinkley's flattering bestseller "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War." Brinkley proclaims his independence from the Kerry campaign -- "This is my book, not his," he writes in "Tour" -- but he's become a major player in the Kerry agitprop machine.