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Tracy Bloom, KTLA / CNN • Wed 2015 Mar 4, 3:40pm

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only three weeks to live, a beloved Marine had one last wish: to be buried in uniform, along with a Marine Corps flag.

Donnie Loneman had loved being a Marine…. But the veteran, who was homeless for the past decade, did not own a dress uniform. He also could not afford to buy one…. After hearing his story, the Oklahoma City VA and several veteran’s organizations came together to honor Loneman’s dying wish, providing the dress uniform and flag that he had requested… also cover his funeral cost and give him an honor guard. …

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Tom Coburn, Washington Times • Tue 2015 Mar 3, 3:42pm

"Our national soul is being corrupted by Washington’s unhindered and unconstitutional overreach. Our Founders anticipated the federal government might get out of control at some point, and they gave us a constitutional mechanism to rein it in. It’s called a Convention of the States, outlined in Article V of the Constitution."

Wild Bill
Stephanie Farr, Daily News • Mon 2015 Mar 2, 6:19pm

…artist Nelson Shanks… [spoke] about a hidden secret in his portrait of President Clinton… "I put a shadow coming into the painting… literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin… [also] represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him." … And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery.

Allen West
Allen West • Thu 2015 Feb 26, 7:26pm

"Look, the remedies for our economy and job opportunity creation are not that hard. The right solutions and policies to restore our education system are clear. The means by which we ignite a new American energy renaissance is within our reach.

"However, if we cannot do the most simple thing, protect the American people and destroy an evident evil — then nothing else matters. We cannot live in fear. We should not live in fear. The enemy must live in fear." -Allen West

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AP / News9 • Wed 2015 Feb 25, 8:15pm

Oklahoma could join a growing list of states calling for a convention to be held to amend the U.S. Constitution.

The Senate Rules Committee will consider a bill on Wednesday calling for a constitutional convention to be held to consider amendments to restrict the federal government's power and impose term limits for members of Congress. …

Akron Beacon Journal • Wed 2015 Feb 25, 5:40pm

"Two ROTC passenger vans parked on the Kent State campus were found burning early Monday morning… arson is suspected… As a precaution, [ROTC Lt. Col. Matthew] Fox has ordered cadets to wear civilian clothing while on campus. …"

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Stars and Stripes • Mon 2015 Feb 23, 4:14pm

"…At Iwo Jima’s southern tip stands its tallest point, Mount Suribachi, peaking at 554 feet. … amid fierce fighting across the island, a Marine platoon climbed to the summit. …a handful of its members lifted a 20-foot-long water pipe topped with a small American flag…"

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The Ada News / AP • Mon 2015 Feb 23, 4:07pm

"Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn is visiting with Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature and urging them to join the list of states calling for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution." Knock me over with a feather, I thought Oklahoma was already signed up.

Dave Gibson, UFP News • Mon 2015 Feb 23, 2:11pm

"During the month of December 2014, there were 94 illegal aliens charged with 518 various counts of sexual assault against North Carolina’s children. …charges range from the manufacturing of child pornography, to the rape of a 5-year-old girl, and even incest. …well over 5,000 such charges filed in North Carolina over the last 14 months. …"

Keiligh Baker, Daily Mail • Mon 2015 Feb 16, 6:18pm

Fascinating pictures show birth of Lockheed's top secret SR-71 spy plane - which is STILL the fastest plane ever built after 39 years

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Allen West • Sun 2015 Feb 15, 9:01pm

"ISIS has taken a western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi not far from Ramadi. Nearby al-Baghdadi is an Iraqi base, al-Asad, where 300 Marines are training Iraqi forces.

"And coming off the episode in Yemen where someone in the Obama administration ordered Marines to destroy their crew served and personal weapons — well, it seems the part of the traitor may have already been cast. …"

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Brandon Darby / Breitbart • Fri 2014 Jul 11, 7:54pm

“The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” NBPC’s Local 2455 Spokesman, Hector Garza, told Breitbart Texas.

“This is not the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] or another federal agency renting or leasing an aircraft, these are the same planes that the American public uses for domestic travel. This just adds insult to injury. Not only are we releasing unknown illegal aliens onto American streets, but we are allowing them to travel commercially using paperwork that could easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer. The Notice to Appear form has no photo, anyone can make one and manipulate one. They do not have any security features, no watermark, nothing. They are simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth.

“We do not know who these people are, we often have to solely rely on who they say they are, where they say they came from, and the history they say they have. We know nothing about most of them, ICE releases them into the American public, and now they are boarding aircraft at will with a simple paper document that anyone can easily alter or reproduce themselves.”

Alfred E Obama
Newswala • Fri 2014 Jul 11, 7:14pm

Kolkata, 2013 Jan 13 (IBNS): As India observed two years of polio free status on Sunday, the global face of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Polio Crusader Ramesh Ferris, Friday met India's last Polio victim Ruksar Khatun at Panchla, here. [Note: The United States of America is no longer polio-free thanks to President Do-Nada.]

Tom Coburn
Chuck Ross / Daily Caller • Thu 2014 Jul 10, 4:39pm

“Look, for $8 million you could put them all on a first-class seat back to their homes,” [Oklahoma Senator Dr. Tom] Coburn said on CNN’s “Crossfire” on Tuesday. [Video at link]

Katie Pavlich / Town Hall • Thu 2014 Jul 10, 4:30pm

With the system being overwhelmed, Border Patrol agents are concerned about minors who have admitted to being MS-13 members… minors who have committed acts like torture and murder in their home countries before heading north to the United States. … "We have six minors in Nogales who have admitted to killing and doing grievous bodily injuries. One admitted to killing as young as eight years old," an agent tells Townhall anonymously for fear of losing his job for speaking out. "They are being held for placement in the U.S." …

Allen West
Valerie Richardson / The Washington Times • Thu 2014 Jul 10, 2:32pm

Republican Rep. Allen West of Florida: "Um, Harry, are you so blind to your own political prejudice that you overlooked the fact that one out of those five white men — isn’t?" … Mr. West added that he hoped Republicans would capture the Senate in November and "kick your white male butt out."

Immigrants Crossing
CBS Houston • Mon 2014 Jul 7, 6:35pm

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "I want an explanation and investigation as to why 3,800 of the people in my jails that are charged with state and local crimes are here illegally. We turn them over to ICE and they keep coming back over and over again. How come they’re not deported, or if they are, why do they keep coming back across the border?"

Christopher Sherman / AP CNS • Mon 2014 Jul 7, 6:16pm

The influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown so large that it now requires its own transportation system: government buses that spend each night idling on a Texas roadside, awaiting the latest arrivals.

Ben Shapiro / Breitbart • Sun 2014 Jul 6, 6:45pm

Adding millions of illegal immigrants to the public rolls – which will happen in terms of lower education and healthcare by necessity – will skyrocket spending. Which is the plan.

Constitution Society • Mon 2014 Jun 30, 7:56pm

1. General Introduction: A Dangerous Plan of Benefit only to the "Aristocratick Combination"…

Breitbart • Sun 2014 Jun 29, 5:38pm

Officials in [Portland, South Portland and Bangor, Maine] say they plan to defy the state and continue offering General Assistance welfare benefits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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Douglas Montero / National Enquirer • Sun 2014 Jun 29, 1:21pm

…more than 1,200 brave military dogs used to protect troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere were killed by our government after they were retired… euthanized because they were deemed too “dangerous” for civilian adoption or jobs with law enforcement agencies, as well as for medical reasons… 16 retired pooches that once worked as guards or bomb sniffers were “put down” between 2001 and 2005 simply because “they were not wanted” by anyone…

BestVines / YouTube • Sat 2014 Jun 28, 7:41pm

A US Navy Harrier pilot has landed his aircraft on a stool after a landing gear failure. The incident took place on the USS Bataan earlier this month. [Cackling talking-heads news report video at link]

Rep James Lankfort / Twitter • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 5:51pm

Thanks, @replouiegohmert for "joining" me on @AmericaNewsroom this morning #photobombed pic.twitter.com/NeRjH4vajh

Pamela Geller • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 5:44pm

Our troops must adhere to the sharia during the Islamic month of Ramadan in Bahrain and other Muslim countries. Subjected to dawah (proselytizing) by an Islamic cultural adviser at the Naval Support Activity, soldiers are forced to sit through lessons on Islam. No eating, drinking, alcohol, smoking during the month of Ramadan. This is what the Obama administration and the US military are obsessed with as armies of jihad tear through the Middle East.

Byron York / Washington Examiner • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 5:00pm

…this was the week in which the Obama administration's attempts to deflect blame for the border crisis fell apart. … Recent days have been filled with anecdotal reports, from local news outlets in Central America to major American newspapers, citing immigrants who say they came because they believe U.S. law has been changed to allow them to stay. And now comes word that Border Patrol agents in the most heavily-trafficked area of the surge, the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas, recently questioned 230 illegal immigrants about why they came. The results showed overwhelmingly that the immigrants, including those classified as UACs, or unaccompanied children, were motivated by the belief that they would be allowed to stay in the United States — and not by conditions in their homelands.

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Charles Hurt / Breitbart • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 4:35pm

“Death trains” rumbling through Mexico teeming with children, headed for the U.S. border. Teenage girls raped. Unspeakable violence at the hands of ruthless coyotes, carrying out President Obama’s stunningly reckless new foreign policy. … Actions have consequences, Mr. President. And executive actions have executive consequences. You are personally responsible for the harrowing condition of every one of these children. You are personally responsible for ripping apart every single one of these families.

Bruce Carroll / Legal Insurrection • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 4:12pm

More than 52,000 children have entered the country illegally in recent months… space is running out to house the children and adults… U.S. Border patrol agents are reportedly getting sickened from the refugees… “I’ve talked to border patrol down in McAllen. They’ve seen TB; they’ve seen chicken pox; they’ve seen scabies. And according to Border Patrol, 4 or 5 of their agents have tested positive for those diseases.” … “I’ve had a 7-year-old little girl from El Salvador with her mother come to my front door just in dire need, lost, needing help,” says Linda Vickers… her ranch is about 60 miles north of the border… “Young men that have had multiple deportations and do not want to get caught. I’ve heard them tell border patrol as they’re loading them into their vehicle ‘That’s okay, Obama’s gonna let me go.’

Gabriel Malor / Ace of Spades • Thu 2014 Jun 26, 7:19pm

…Noel Canning v. NLRB, the Court in a majority opinion by Justice Breyer held that President Obama exceeded his authority when he claimed to recess appoint NLRB members while the Senate was holding pro forma sessions….

…McCullen v. Coakley, the Massachusetts abortion clinic speech-free zone case. In another unanimous rejection (although with three justices concurring only in the judgment because they would have gon further), the Court held that the Massachusetts law was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment….

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Robert Gearty / Fox • Thu 2014 Jun 26, 6:55pm

A Veterans Affairs nurse who spent 28 years at the embattled agency's facility in Albany, N.Y., says when she came forward to report abuse including stolen drugs and mistreatment of patients, her supervisors turned on her instead of trying to fix things.

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