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My 5th great grandfather's grave site is being threatened by development in the Barefoot Landing area of Myrtle Beach. Jeremiah Vereen served under Francis Marion and was a true patriot. Please help by signing the petition to find the grave and preserve it. https://www.change.org/p/roger-grigg-city-of-north-myrtle-beach-south-carolina-governor-allow-the-horry-county-government-and-coastal-carolina-university-to-use-ground-penetrating-radar-and-modern-archaeological-methods-to-identify-and-preserve-the-historic-vereen-cemetery-a

Germans were confronted with imagesoftheir country’s dark past on Monday night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast. In a report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, Moscow correspondent Bernhard Lichte used pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the "SS runes" of Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps.

During the 119th South Carolina General Assemblys 1st session, State Representative Mike Pitts (R-14) introduced H. 3292. Cosponsors are Representatives Dan Cooper (R-10) and Greg Delleney, Jr. (R-43). The purpose of H. 3292 is to reform current law to remove certain restrictions on where one may lawfully carry a concealed firearm, establish that property owners may not set policies or rules that would prohibit the transportation or storage of legally-possessed firearms or ammunition if it is locked, out of sight, within a privately-owned motor vehicle, for a direct recognition of valid permits issued by other states.

SAN DIEGO - An investigating officer has recommended that a Marine who led his squad in an assault that killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children should not be tried for murder, a defense attorney said. If the general overseeing the case accepts the recommendation, as is likely, no one will face murder charges in the biggest case involving civilian deaths in Iraq. Lt. Col. Paul Ware on Thursday recommended that Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, charged with the unpremeditated murder of 17 Iraqis, should be tried instead for negligent homicide in the deaths of five children and two women in...

Below is a letter from my buddy Jim DeMint Hollywood Pork: $4 Billion for a park in Beverly Hills Dear William, It was business as usual in Washington this week as California Senator Dianne Feinstein slipped a $4 billion earmark for a Beverly Hills park into a veterans' spending bill. Sadly, when I offered an amendment to strike this wasteful earmark so the funds could be used for VA healthcare, only 25 senators had the courage stand up for America's veterans and say no to pork for Hollywood's wealthy and well connected. Here is how the Beverly Hills earmark was...

Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun? British attitudes are supercilious and misguidedRichard Munday Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins. Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?

Dear Friend: I know from our previous communication that you are greatly concerned about immigration reform and the impact illegal immigrants are having on our nation. There is no doubt that we must get a handle on this pressing problem. While the comprehensive approach to reforming our nation's broken immigration system failed in the Senate last month, the problems posed by illegal immigration have not gone away. There remain at least half a dozen major changes in policy we have to make as a nation to get the problems of illegal immigration under control. I am pleased to report last...

DEVELOPING STORY: Two television news helicopters collided Friday and crashed while covering a police pursuit, killing at least two people. Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and caught fire. The collision happened as the two choppers broadcast live coverage of police pursuing a truck. Cameras aboard both aircraft were pointed at the ground, so viewers did not witness the accident. The first indication of trouble came when pictures from the helicopters went dead. Television station KNXV reported that it owned one of the choppers. The other was from KTVT, which reported that both the pilot and...

From the NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:58 p.m. EDT More Vote Fraud in Palm Beach Palm Beach County, Fla. -- home of the infamous "hanging chad” of the disputed 2000 presidential election -- is again the scene of voting controversy. The Republican Party of Palm Beach County has uncovered at least 60 cases of voters it believe voted twice –- once in New York and once in Florida -- in the Nov. 7, 2006, general election.The GOP investigators believe vote fraud is far worse. Their analysis found as many almost 12,000 Florida...