Friday, April 10, 2026
Times are tough, gotta make a buck
Parents and students are in shock now that a high school math teacher in North Carolina is facing serious drug charges.
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Who doesn't collect souvenirs?
A U.S. Marine was detained at a California airport after Transportation Security Administration personnel found a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked baggage, police said.
Break's over, time to get back to work
A career criminal walked out of the federal correctional center in downtown Chicago last week after serving a 96-month term for bank robbery and robbed another bank that very afternoon, prosecutors say. Major McCoy, 42, allegedly admitted to robbing the PNC Bank, 1231 North Wells Street, during an FBI interview, adding that he lost $150 of the bank’s cash before police arrested him when a crack dealer ripped him off.
In Defense of Operation Market Garden
On September 17, 1944, Allied forces launched the most ambitious airborne operation in history. Operation Market Garden, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s audacious plan to seize a series of bridges across the Netherlands and drive into the heart of Germany, has since become synonymous with failure, immortalized in Cornelius Ryan’s phrase “a bridge too far.” The operation has been dissected in countless histories, dramatized in film, and held up as a cautionary tale about military overconfidence. Generals are warned against it in staff colleges. Journalists invoke it whenever bold plans come to grief. The deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East for potential operation spawned “Operation Market Khargen” or “Operation Kharg Garden,” depending on which social media user you ask. Yet the near-universal condemnation of Market Garden deserves serious scrutiny. A careful examination of the strategic context, the operation’s actual achievements, and the nature of its shortcomings reveals that the plan was not the reckless gamble of legend, but a bold and strategically sound operation undone by contingencies that no commander could fully have anticipated. To condemn it as folly is not only historically inaccurate, but it is unfair to the men who conceived it, fought it, and nearly pulled it off.
-Alemaster
Rules for thee but not for me
A commissioner with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game is facing several misdemeanor charges for illegal wildlife hunting.
Commissioner Brody Harshbarger, one of Idaho’s seven commissioners, has been charged with seven misdemeanor violations. They include multiple counts of unlawful taking of game animals, one count of hunting without an appropriate tag, one count of hunting from a motorized vehicle, one count of shooting across a public highway, and one count of trespassing on private property to hunt.
-Don in Oregon
Forever and ever, amen
A Middle Tennessee couple that was married for over 70 years died last Thursday just nine hours apart in their Wilson County home.
VDH Commentary: By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
His wording may have been sloppy, but Trump obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist and wouldn’t come back once power plants and transportation systems crucial to the regime’s survival were cut off.
Welcome Home, Airman
After being labeled “unidentifiable” for decades, the remains of a U.S. Army Air Forces Private who fought in World War II were accounted for.
Kentucky? Not Florida?
What started as a car break-in early Sunday morning ended with a bizarre scene involving a naked man showering in a sprinkler system, according to an eyewitness.
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"One moment, let me check with my supervisor"
A suburban man faces a federal attempted bank robbery charge after he was outsmarted by three quick-thinking tellers who made him wait eight minutes while they “got approval” to hand him all of the bank’s $100 bills, officials said. Mark A. Sanchez, 23, was arrested around 9:21 a.m. Wednesday inside the Jewel-Osco, 1485 West Palatine Road, in Hoffman Estates.
Daffy the Duck dies
A self-driving car struck and killed a beloved duck near a park in Texas, furious residents say.
One witness wrote in a local Facebook group that they watched an Avride vehicle drive over the aquatic bird as it rested near Mueller Lake Park in Austin earlier this week, KXAN reported.
Your Weekly Florida Report
A Florida woman who moved back into her husband's home to celebrate their son's 18th birthday and "rekindle" their relationship ended up setting the place on fire after an argument, cops say.
Good Morning
A viral video shows the moment a 3-year-old boy sat with an 87-year-old man who was eating by himself at a McDonald's in Oklahoma.
VIDEO HERE (2:20 minutes)
This is what us experienced drunks call having a blackout
A top FEMA official is doubling down on his claim that he has been teleported against his will.
Gregg Phillips is in charge of response and recovery at FEMA and has repeated the claim on several podcasts, according to CNN.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've come to my senses miles from where I last remember being, and it usually involved a Denny's, another all-night diner or a taco truck.
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