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Thursday, 07 April 2011 11:03

ACLU Sues Over Prayer In Rhode Island

The American Civil Liberties Union is attacking the Christian religion again. This time, the leftist group's Rhode Island chapter has filed suit on behalf of another of the ubiquitous minor students who simply can't stand any contemplation of the Almighty.

On July 18, Tom Burlington gets his day in court. 

Just in time for the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, the U.S. Interior Department announced that it will change one of the inscriptions on the memorial that supposedly bears the late activist's words.

American Indians are on the warpath to protest the code name used during the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. U.S. operatives used "Geronimo," a reference to the 19th-century Chiracahua Apache (pictured, left) who died in captivity in 1909 after a life spent fighting Mexicans and Americans.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 09:43

Maj. Dick Winters, Resquiescat In Pace

When he jumped into Normandy on June 6, 1944 with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, Easy Company's Lt. Dick Winters landed with one weapon: his jump knife. As happened to many of his fellow paratroopers, the blast of air on exiting the plane blew away his M-1 Garand and the famous leg bag, concocted by the British to carry more gear.

 

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