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When it came to ending World War II, no move hastened the end of the hostilities more than D-Day, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies.  However, D-Day was the end result of a complicated network of double-crosses that fed the Germans wrong information about where the invasion was to be launched.  Normandy was relatively […]

A prominent Jewish group is calling on News Corp head Rupert Murdoch to sanction his two most infamous employees, Roger Ailes and Glenn Beck, for their use of Holocaust-themed rhetoric.  Beck, a popular host on Fox News, described Jewish billionaire and prominent liberal money man George Soros as a “Jewish boy helping send the Jews […]

The much-maligned, much-mocked Homeland Security Advisory System, a Sesame Street-style color chart designed to indicate to Americans how scared of terrorism they should be, has been in existence since March 11, 2002, when it was signed into existence by President Bush.  Now, it’s expected that the Homeland Security Advisory System of color-coded terror warnings will […]

Animal control officers are used to hyperbole.  Every giant monster is a simple snake or lizard or frog.  Every wild dog out of control is someone’s escaped pet.  However, panicky calls from a residential neighborhood in Riverside, California, concerning a giant Godzilla-like monster turned out to be pretty accurate.  A five-foot-long black-throated monitor lizard was […]

In December, the news broke.  One of the Fantastic Four, Marvel’s cornerstone superhero franchise for the past 50 years, was going to die.  Not comic book death, either.  Supposedly, the dead Fantastic Four member was going to die actual death.  Well, with the final issue of the Fantastic Four, a year-long storyline by writer Jonathan […]

Every morning when I wake up, I check the Google Trends listings to see what people are talking about, searching for, or looking to learn about.  Usually, it’s a bunch of nothing.  However over the past few days, there have been a lot of searches concerning Orange County Choppers, or OCC, and whether or not […]

After three seasons of inexplicable fame in which a cast of sub-humanoids from New York and New Jersey were paraded around in front of a string of cameras to feud, fornicate, and intoxicate themselves into a frenzy, there’s no stopping MTV’s hit reality show Jersey Shore.  No matter how far they get from Jersey, they […]

It’s the big topic of the morning and the centerpiece of lots of national discussion, for good or ill.  Last night, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress and a variety of other dignitaries.  The feedback to that speech, as well as to the […]

When Republican state senator Jay Hottinger entered politics, he probably knew he’d make enemies if only due to ideological differences.  However, Hottinger never could have expected to be the victim of his own party.  When Ohio Republican state senators were attending a meeting at a lodge about a mile away, some pranksters snuck out at night and […]

A Union soldier from the Civil War, Private Patrick Murphy, was one of the many people pardoned by President Abraham Lincoln in the aftermath of the war between the states, but Patrick Murphy’s pardon was different.  In documents uncovered in the National Archives by amateur historians Thomas P. and Beverly Lowry, Murphy’s pardon date was April 14, […]

Animal researchers seeking to track the movements of polar bears, or Ursus maritimus, as they hunt for food were shocked by a recent discovery.  One of the bears they fitted with a tracking collar has undertaken an epic journey in search of food.  This particular female bear swam for 9 days straight, covering a distance […]

Bad news for fans of the dollar menu at McDonald’s.  McDonald’s has announced that prices on some food items will go up in the coming months.  How the news should be greeted depends on who you talk to.  Economists fear the news, citing inflation fears, but for shareholders, it’s a sign of McDonald’s commitment to profitability and […]