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  • Armed 'patriot' accidentally shoots self in leg at Gettysburg battlefield

    07/02/2017 9:48:10 PM PDT · by Timpanagos1 · 17 replies
    Penn Live ^ | 7/1/17 | Christine Vendel
    GETTYSBURG--A "patriot" who brought a revolver to Gettysburg National Military Park Saturday amid rumors of desecration of memorials accidentally shot himself in the leg Saturday. Benjamin Hornberger, 23, of Shippensburg, accidentally triggered the revolver, which was inside a leg holster, when he temporarily rested the bottom of his flag pole against the holster, according to witnesses. Park police were nearby when the shooting occurred and officers quickly applied a tourniquet that may have saved the man's life, said Sgt. Anna Rose, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Park Police. A tourniquet type device covered the wound on the man's left thigh...
  • Stop Erecting of Statue of Genocide Leader Ataturk in Rome!

    12/11/2005 7:33:28 PM PST · by eleni121 · 112 replies · 1,929+ views
    Action Commitees of Armenia and Greece ^ | December 11, 2005 | International Armenian Network
    Please click the following link and send an email to the Mayor of Rome protesting the erection of a mass murderer Mustafa kemal Ataturk. http://www.ian.cc/acciones.php
  • ACLU threat causes Boy Scouts to drop public school ties

    03/15/2005 10:22:16 AM PST · by TheEaglehasLanded · 57 replies · 1,931+ views
    BP News ^ | March 9, 2005 | Jeff Robinson
    ACLU threat causes Boy Scouts to drop public school ties Mar 9, 2005 By Jeff Robinson NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Boy Scouts of America is removing the charters of thousands of scouting units from public schools after an American Civil Liberties Union threat to sue taxpayer-funded institutions that charter BSA units. The ACLU sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America in February threatening legal action against public schools and other governmental agencies that charter Boy Scout groups on grounds that their sponsorship amounts to religious discrimination and violates the separation of church and state. Boy Scouts open their meetings...
  • What's with all the dead scientists?

    01/26/2005 4:41:33 PM PST · by Middle-O-Road · 231 replies · 3,894+ views
    What's the deal with all the dead scientists?
  • Putin: Ally or Terrorist? (Russian FSB/KGB Real Culprits Behind "Chechen Terrorism")

    09/21/2004 8:24:29 PM PDT · by GIJoel · 665 replies · 11,270+ views
    The New American ^ | February 2002 | William Jasper
    Putin: Ally or Terrorist? by William F. Jasper Counting Vladimir Putin as an ally against terrorism ignores his career in the murderous KGB/FSB and his ongoing support for terrorist regimes and organizations. ‘‘Lena Goncharuk, aged 38, said that she was the only one to survive out of a group of six who were ordered out of the cellar where they had been hiding and shot at point blank range. Resting in her hospital bed, her voice barely rising above a whisper, she said she had survived only by pretending to be dead." So reported Paul Wood from the Chechen border...