Earlier today, I wrote about a North Korean arms dealer who was caught trying to make a sale to a Ukrainian warlord. I talked about how people like this could arm the cartels, and likely already have, and that American gun control would never stop the flow of guns into Mexico. And it’s true. The cartels have money, and arms dealers tend to like money.In fact, they like it so much that even sitting in a prison cell, some will try to broker hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit weapons deals.A man will serve…

Democrats are making a last-ditch effort to persuade Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and in turn the White House, not to confirm a U.S. Coast Guard commander promotion due to past whistleblower complaints. Mullin, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma who took over as secretary after his embattled predecessor Kristi Noem was relieved of her duties in March, is being requested by four Democratic senators to reconsider the promotion to captain of Coast Guard Lt. Cdr. Jesse Millard. A previous independent investigation by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) found that Millard engaged…

The Great Depression brought out both the resiliency and ingenuity of literally millions of people. With few options, people had to make do with what was on hand. Clothes were sewn with spare flour sacks and shoes repaired with cardboard. Food, however, is where things got really interesting. Some foods were still plentiful and reasonably affordable, but others were scarce. How do you make a full meal when half your ingredients are missing? You improvise and invent a whole host of crazy foods in the process. Here are some strange meals people ate during the Great Depression—meals we might all be eating…