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A Connecticut Army veteran and his daughter filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Department of Veterans Affairs, arguing that a law denying her disability benefits because her father and not her mother served in Vietnam amounts to unconstitutional sex discrimination. Ron Christoforo enlisted in the Army at 22 in 1969 and spent a year in Vietnam as a telecommunications technician attached to the 5th Special Forces Group. His daughter Michele, 33, was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism. Neither parent has a family history of the condition. The VA recognizes achondroplasia as a covered birth defect…

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…

Which makes me like most of them even more, to be honest. We’re still waiting to see the actual text of these rules published in the Federal Register, but based on the summaries provided on the ATF’s website, we still have a pretty good idea of what DOJ and ATF are trying to put in place. Everytown’s “Senior Firearms Analyst” and editor of the group’s Smoking Gun website Greg Lickenbrock claims the proposed rules “are clearly designed to benefit the gun industry,” which is a big problem for a group intent on destroying that same…

Good friends are hard to find. In military life, they’re both hard to find and hard to keep. What’s not hard is pausing on our own official Military Spouse Day to appreciate the ones we have. Like most aspects of military life, military friendships are unique, life-altering and often subject to change. It seems that once you find that one special person who shares your love for romance novels and overlooks your tendency for tardiness, her husband is give orders to move halfway around the world, leaving you back to friendship square one and wondering if you’ll ever find someone…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  Senate Republicans introduced legislation on Monday to allocate $400 million in taxpayer funds for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, according to a bill filed by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) [1]. The proposal follows a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 25, which supporters said demonstrated the need for a secure facility on the White House grounds [2]. The president had previously stated the ballroom would be entirely funded by private donations, a point he made repeatedly in…

It’s just before dawn, and my feet crunch over dry gravel as I speed walk toward the sound of a gobbling turkey in the distance. The silhouettes of ponderosa pines are just becoming clear against the lightening sky. I make out a fading star, which slides beneath a hillside as I step out of a meadow and into a forest. A steep ridge rises in front of me, and I step hard into the dirt game path, feet clawing up as I close the distance, hoping to get close before light breaks and the turkeys fly down from their roosts.…

The shooting at Brown University was a rare moment of calamity in the relative calm of high-profile shootings in 2025, but it was enough to make a lot of people very scared and very nervous. Unsurprisingly, we heard the renewed calls for gun control, because some people just can’t help it, but the truth is that nothing much came of the incident, in part because there were still a lot of questions about the guns. That was muddied after the same gunman killed an MIT professor a couple of days later.Well, we know one thing…

The House is taking up a Senate-passed budget resolution that sets nearly $1 trillion in defense spending—roughly $500 billion below the levels President Donald Trump has publicly pushed—setting up a potential battle within the Republican Party over how far to go on military funding. The framework outlines roughly $5.5 trillion in federal spending for Fiscal Year 2026, including about $934 billion in national defense budget authority and a projected $1.26 trillion deficit. It also directs committees to draft legislation that could increase defense and immigration-related spending over the next decade. The GOP-controlled Senate approved the measure in a 50-48 vote…

The Thermos brand is asking customers to stop using certain food jars and multi-use vessels that lack a pressure relief valve, after receiving several reports of lids “forcefully ejecting” if stored with contents for extended periods. Thermos is offering replacement lids with pressure relief stoppers and/or entirely new vessels, depending on the model. The recall involves three specific models and more than 8 million total vessels: about 5.8 million food jars and 2.3 million multi-purpose bottles. To date, Thermos has received 27 incident reports, some including laceration injuries, and three reports of customers suffering permanent vision loss after being struck…