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When bullying happens to your child, you want something done about it. I tend to think an old-school butt-whooping from the victim does more good than anything, but I’ve been informed by more than one school administrator that such behavior isn’t acceptable. I’m just going to say, after the one where my kid had to be dragged off of the would-be bully, he never had a problem again. Anyway, it’s tough for a father to deal with it, because what was considered normal in our day isn’t today, and in some cases, the bullies are…
More than 21 million veterans and service members live in the U.S., but only about 6% of them bought a home using a VA home loan in the past five years. That percentage could be much higher. Eligible veterans often bypass the program for a number of reasons. First, they may not know all the advantages. Second, they may think getting a VA loan is an arduous process to be avoided. Last, some lenders don’t take the time to teach veterans about the program, or don’t know much about it themselves. The VA home loan is a program non-military home…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce Wednesday that he will cut general and admiral positions across the military by 20%, effectively doubling the reduction he ordered last year as part of a broader plan to reshape the senior ranks by Jan. 1, 2027. Hegseth is scheduled to lay out the plan during a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, according to Pentagon officials cited by several news outlets, including Fox News, which first reported it. Quantico is the same site where the secretary gathered the United States’ highest ranking generals and admirals…
Being a police officer is tough. I wouldn’t do it for three times the top-end pay for an officer, much less what they actually get paid. Growing up around the profession, I saw just what kind of toll it could take on a person, and that’s without losing a number of your colleagues in a single day. Just one was enough to rattle a lot of police officers’ families deeply. Officers in Charlotte, NC, dealt with that back in 2024 when four of their colleagues were gunned down by a convicted felon armed with a…
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident that saw five men arrested near a U.S.-run military air base in England late at night, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday. Burnham said U.K. and U.S. officials are carrying out a “complex and serious” investigation into how and why five men and three vans were near the perimeter of RAF Fairford, a base that has been used by American bombers striking Iran during this year’s war. Five British men in their 20s were arrested Sunday on suspicion of explosives offenses and planning an…
Let’s start off by noting that yes, warning shots are stupid. I don’t feel like getting into why, generally speaking, in this piece, because it’s not about that. It’s about a California man facing charges for firing warning shots. It started with the nightmare scenario for many people: the proverbial bump in the night. Someone was inside of the home in the dark of night who shouldn’t have been there.So a man who works as a security guard decided he needed to do something, but he apparently didn’t want to hurt anyone.A security guard was…
An Air Force officer who was arrested after calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment has been recommended to stand trial by general court-martial—the military’s most serious level of trial—on most of the charges against him, according to his attorney. Maj. Jason Watson was arrested in uniform on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in July as he called for Trump to be impeached, arguing that the president had violated the Constitution and that Trump and Vice President JD Vance should be removed from office. Watson has said he acted not out of partisanship but to uphold his oath to defend…
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has already successfully gone after the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department over its unreasonable delays in processing concealed carry applications and recently targeted San Jose, California over its excessive fees for concealed carry permits, but now the division is seeking to strike down another local law on the books in San Jose. The Justice Department filed its first complaint against the city’s $1591 application fee a couple of weeks ago, but on Tuesday the agency filed an amended complaint this week that challenges San Jose’s requirement that concealed carry applicants undergo…
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight. NASA announced Wednesday that Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover will no longer serve as active astronauts but will continue to support the moon exploration program as emeritus astronauts. Glover has taken a leadership job at his alma mater, California Polytechnic State University, while Wiseman’s future plans weren’t disclosed. They flew around the moon in April with two other astronauts, setting a new distance record for humanity. Artemis II’s Jeremy Hansen retired from the…
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Brian Bengs says he is running for the U.S. Senate in South Dakota on the “cowboy code of the West,” meaning he will do two things if elected into the exclusive chamber: tell the truth, and take care of neighbors. Bengs is a U.S. Navy veteran who is no stranger to running for office. In 2022, he ran as a Democrat for a U.S. Senate seat against then-Senate Minority Whip John Thune, who attained roughly 70% of the vote and is now the Senate majority leader. Rounds, a former two-term governor in the state, was first elected in 2014 and…
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Michael Barasch has been one of the staunchest advocates on behalf of roughly 500,000 civilians, law enforcement and first responders who have suffered from countless diseases correlated to the World Trade Center attacks 25 years ago. Barasch, an attorney at the New York City-based law firm Barasch & McGarry, was instrumental in working on behalf of more than 140,000 survivors and first responders who have benefited over the years from World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) funding approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that included victims at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. WTCHP is defined by the…
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When Ryan Manion stands before thousands of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy this September, she will see something that would have been almost unimaginable when her brother Travis attended the academy. Most of them weren’t alive on Sept. 11, 2001. Manion saw that reality clearly at the academy’s 9/11 Heroes Run last year. Looking across a crowd filled with midshipmen, she estimated that 95% of the people standing in front of her had not yet been born when terrorists attacked the United States. And that means something to those of us who did experience it, who were there, Manion…
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