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ou may not know political commentator Tomi Lahren by name, but chances are good that you’ve heard one of her “spirited� rants at some point. In 2015, she famously ranted about President Obama, terrorism and radical Islam. She’s also gone on record to imply Hillary Clinton is man. Lahren may have grown up sitting in front of HBO and memorizing every word of Dennis Miller’s “I don’t want to get off on a rant�-style speeches. After all, her cadence of speaking does sound familiar.

Super-conservative Lahren currently hosts her own online commentary show on The Blaze, a news network founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Lahren is famous for her “Final Thoughts� segment, where she rants about politics and current affairs. Clips of her rants often clock-up millions of views and go viral.

She has previously criticized President Obama’s Middle East policy, describing his approach as a “halfway, half-baked, tiptoe, be-friendly-to-Jihadis mentality.�

Lahren, who comes from a military family, added: “I care this S.O.B killed four of our United States Marines. And I care that our commander in chief is more concerned with Muslim sensitivity than the honor and sacrifice made by these Marines.�

She accused Beyonce of “ram-rodding an aggressive agenda down our throats� during her Superbowl halftime performance of her new single Formation, which references the Black Lives Matter movement.

Now, she’s launched a scathing attack on millenials after the hashtag #MillenialBillofRights began trending on Twitter, in a video that’s received almost 2 million views.

Lahren criticized the issues young people were complaining about on social media.

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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW CHARGERS REPORT

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Chargers bolster roster during free agency

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With questions surrounding the health of Brandon Flowers and Patrick Robinson testing his value in free agency, Telesco inked the versatile corner to a reported three-year, $15.3 million contract — $6.8 million guaranteed (Ian Rapoport/ NFL Network) Where the 26-year-old Hayward fits into defensive coordinator John Pagano’s defense will likely be decided in training camp. Although he has experience on the outside as a corner as well at the nickel position, one would assume Pagano moves Flowers inside and pegs Hayward the starter opposite Jason Verrett — giving the Chargers one of the best young cornerback duos in the NFL. A second-round pick out of Vanderbilt in 2012, the 5-foot-11-inch, 195-pound Hayward was part of a Packers secondary that finished the season ranked sixth in pass defense last season. Ranked 14thoverall on Pro Football Focus’ top 75 free agent list for 2016, Hayward becomes the

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along with veteran running back Donald Brown earlier this month. Also gone from the roster is defensive end Kendall Reyes, who signed a free agent contract with the Washington Redskins.

On offense, Telesco made quarterback Philip Rivers a very happy camper by resigning right tackle Joe Barksdale and adding the speedy Travis Benjamin to the receiving corps.

Coming off a season where he was voted Chargers’ Lineman-of-the-Year, Barksdale was rewarded with a four-year, $22 million contract. Being the only offensive lineman not to miss a game last season for the bolts, it was vital Telesco kept Barks-

third veteran free agent to join the Chargers defense — Telesco signed defensive tackle Brandon Mebane (Seahawks) and free safety Dwight Lowery (Colts) on the first day of free agency.

Aside from the 31-year-old Mebane, it appears the Chargers are going for a youth movement in hopes to turn around a dismal performance in 2015 as the team finished last in the AFC West with a 4-12 record.

It was no secret the team wasn’t bringing back All-Pro safety Eric Weddle and veteran receiver Malcom Floyd was retiring, however, Telesco released inside linebackers Donald Butler and Kavell Conner

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dale in-house not only for continuity purposes up front, but his ability to step in and play left tackle if need be.

The signing of Benjamin not only brings over-the-top speed to the position, but his talent as a punt returner gives the Chargers a much-needed threat on special teams the team has been lacking since they let Darren Sproles walk out the door following the 2010 season.

Entering his fifth year out of the University of Miami, the 5-foot-10-inch, 175-pound Benjamin has averaged 12.6 yards per punt return over his career and has three returns for touchdowns. And despite the quarterback woes in Cleveland, the former Hurricane was on the radar of a few teams following a 2015 breakout season which saw him catch 68 passes for 966 yards and five touchdowns.

The Endzone: In his four years with the Packers, Hayward has totaled 168 tackles, 35 passes defended, nine interceptions and one touchdown. He has led the team in interceptions in two of his four seasons with the Packers and in 2012, Hayward led all NFL rookies with six interceptions and 11 passes defended. In 2014 he was tied for seventh in the NFL with five total takeaways (three interceptions and two fumble recoveries), and started a careerhigh 11 games last season with 65 tackles and seven passes defended.

Aside from the aforementioned free agent signings, Telesco also re-signed tight end Antonio Gates, quarterback Kellen Clemons, safety Jahleel Addae, receiver Dontrelle Inman, guard-tackle Kenny Wiggins and defensive tackle Damion Square.

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Northern Iowa beat Wichita State twice this season. Both mid-majors have Cinderella potential.

Seven bold predictions for the NCAA tournament Just about every college basketball coach will tell you winning in the NCAA tournament is heavily based on what type of matchup their team draws. Now that Selection Sunday has delivered yet another riveting unveiling of 68 teams, the Cinderellas, Final Four sleepers and title contenders can be sorted out based on the 2016 tourney’s matchups.

While March is always wild and unpredictable, this season’s madness started way earlier with a record number of top teams falling like flies. With that, why think the tournament would be normal madness?

Here’s a look at seven predictions that will shake up the bracket.

Three of four No. 12 seeds pull off upsets The No. 12 seed>No. 5 seed upset is the most probable and popular pick on a yearly basis so perhaps this isn’t that bold. However, no matter how much it’s picked or forecasted, the shock factor always arrives.

In the West Region, Ivy League champion Yale takes on Baylor. The Bears will be ready after getting upset by Georgia State in the opening round last year. No matter.

Yale hasn’t been in the Big Dance since 1962 and has Cinderella written all over it behind versatile forward Justin Sears.

In the East, Southern champ Chattanooga squares off against Big Ten regularseason champion Indiana. The Hoosiers have come on strong late in the season behind lightning quick point guard Yogi Ferrell. Yet the Mocs have what it takes to beat Indiana, which just lost to bubble team Michigan in the Big Ten tourney. This, unfortunately, would ruin a potential Indiana-Kentucky meeting in the round of 32.

Sorry. And in the Midwest Region, Little Rock-Arkansas has the Cinderella ingredients to stun another Big Ten team in Purdue. The Boilermakers looked impressive in the Big Ten final against Michigan State, but they’ve been known to lack an edge throughout the season. The Trojans, who beat Tulsa and San Diego State this season, certainly won’t be lacking any type of fire as a mid-major with a chip on its shoulder.

No Big 12 team reaches Final Four In a season in which the Big 12 has been the clear-cut toughest conference in the country and Kansas has emerged as the top overall seed in the whole tournament, it would almost be bizarre to not see a team from the Big 12 in Houston come April.

But it’s not as though the Jayhawks, No. 2 seed Oklahoma, No. 3 seed West Virginia, No. 4 seed Iowa State, No. 5 seed Baylor, No. 6 seed Texas and No. 8 seed Texas Tech have an easy path. Bill Self ’s team could run into a surging UConn team as early as the first weekend in the South Region.

And while Buddy Hield’s Sooners do have the moxie to get past top-seeded Oregon or anyone in the West, OU has proven to be extremely vulnerable when it’s not shoot- No. 11 seeds Wichita State, Northern ing the ball well from beyond the arc. The Iowa and Gonzaga reach the Sweet 16 The selection committee sent a not-soconference didn’t fare too well in last year’s tournament, either, as both Iowa State and nice message to mid-major bubble teams Baylor got stunned in the opening round NCAA, continued on Page X by mid-major Cinderellas.

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FORMER CIA DIRECTOR DEFENDS CALL MONITORING In ‘Playing to the Edge,’ Hayden says CIA was betrayed

By Elise Cooper MilitaryPress

“Playing to the Edge,� written by former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, offers insight into many of the programs under his responsibility. He discusses NSA’s data collection, the enhanced interrogation program, relations with Congress and the media. It also delves into the political, legal, defense, technical and budget restrictions he faced during his tenure as a director of the NSA and CIA Hayden said he wrote the book “to pull back the veil to give Americans a better understanding of what the intelligence community does for American security.

Despite its great importance, it is highly misunderstood.�

The book highlights NSA data collection, and Hayden makes a very good point, that much of the fear is rooted in misunderstanding. He clearly explains how Stellarwind, the Metadata program, became an enormously useful way to track who foreign terrorists are talking to in the United States without sacrificing any significant measure of privacy.

Readers will understand that those in the intelligence community and the Bush Administration were not focused on world domination, and had no interest in listening to a person’s phone calls, unless they were speaking with a terrorist.

It becomes evident after reading the book and talking with General Hayden that intelligence operates in a universal gray area, where there is a need to balance freedom and security. “We put together with Stellarwind a

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Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden argues for more openness, and the collection of telephone data, in his new book, “Playing to the Edge.�

massive file of the history of American phone calls. But the files were accessed only with strict and limited circumstances,� Hayden said. “For example, if you pick up a phone never seen before, associated with terrorism, you can ask the database if the phone’s history has ever been in contact with anyone in the U.S. The database is accessed by an intelligence professional that thinks they have a reasonable suspicion that a particular phone number is connected with terrorism. “In order for John Doe to be triggered he would have to be in touch with either, directly or indirectly, a phone number overseas that is believed to be terrorist related.�

Hayden basically agrees with John

Congress and this administration have shown a betrayal of trust where the CIA is concerned; yet, has done nothing regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails. Hayden noted, “I have not seen the emails. But, once you set up a private server it can’t go to a happy place because it is unprotected. As a former director of the NSA, if a potential adversary of the U.S. had done this I would have moved heaven and earth to see the information. “It was imprudent and I cannot understand why the folks at the State Department did not say to her she could not do it.

The explanation she gives is incoherent for anyone who was in government.�

The book further explains the Hayden Doctrine. “Balancing openness with the need for secrecy is a condition to be managed, not a problem to be solved,� Hayden said. “We should lean forward as far as possible in telling our story. If we do not do this other people will, without being as accurate or as favorable. We need to communicate to the broader society what we do and the reasons behind it. Because too much information is classified this breeds carelessness in protecting what is really secret.

But we have to be open internally as well.

I created a program, ‘Email The Director.’ Something seemed to be working because by 2008 we were only in the press because of Congress.�

In “Playing to the Edge� Michael Hayden shows how important intelligence is to America’s security. People might not always agree with him, but one thing is for certain he believes in the Constitution, is a patriot, and his only agenda is to protect his fellow citizens.

Americans should thank him for his service and consider him a true American hero who stepped up to the plate to defend the homeland.

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Brennan, the current CIA director, who said in an interview, “individuals are liberally giving up their privacy, you know, sometimes wittingly and sometimes unwittingly as they give information to companies or to sales reps. Or they go out on Facebook or the various social media.

They don’t realize though that they are then making themselves vulnerable to exploitation.�

But more importantly what Hayden wants to focus upon is that America should be “capturing terrorists and detaining them for interrogation.� “How we get to that point is to elect another president,� he said. “This president grabs someone only if he can put them in an Article III court, instead of treating them as enemy combatants.�

FEY SHINES IN ‘WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT’

By Jeri Jacquin MilitaryPress

In theaters from directors Glenn Ficarra, John Requa and Paramount Pictures comes a story based on the book by Kim Baker with “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.�

Kim Baker (Tina Fey) works for a news service sitting behind a desk. When the opportunity comes to shake up her life, she is assigned to Kabul, Afghanistan to cover stories about stories of interest. Immediately after landing, Kim begins to doubt that she can fit in until she is introduced to Tanya Vanderpoel (Margot Robbie) who takes Kim under her wing and introduces her to her new environment.

She is assigned driver Fahim (Christopher Abbott) who has connections and introduces Kim to Ali Massoud Sadiq (Alfred Molina) who immediately shows signs of having a crush on her. With the help of the military including General Hollanek (Billy Bob Thornton), Kim embeds and takes the initiative to find the stories in the middle of the war.

When Kim discovers her boyfriend is cheating, she decides it is time to let loose and that’s when an unlikely relationship

“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,� starring Tina Fey, tells the story of a reporter assigned to Kabul, Afghanistan.

with photographer Iain MacKelpie (Martin Freeman) begins. When Kim’s network begins rejecting her stories, she takes matters into her own hands and discovers that the one person she has come to rely on has another agenda.

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With each risk she takes to get the story, the more other are worried about how she is handling herself. But when Iain is kidnapped, Kim becomes stronger that everyone imagined.

Fey as Kim jumps into this role and

gives a solid and serious performance.

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Embattled charity fires top execs

Sailors scrub the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan following a countermeasure wash down to decontaminate the flight deck while the ship was operating off the coast of Japan in March 2011. Sailors scrubbed the external surfaces on the flight deck and island superstructure to remove potential radiation contamination. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle Carlstrom)

Ships that aided Japan contaminated with radiation CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Sixteen U.S. ships that participated in relief efforts after Japan’s nuclear disaster five years ago remain contaminated with low levels of radiation from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, top Navy officials say.

In all, 25 ships took part in Operation Tomadachi, the name given for the U.S. humanitarian aid operations after the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011. The tsunami, whose waves reached runup heights of 130 feet, crippled the Fukushima plant, causing a nuclear meltdown.

In the years since the crisis, the ships have undergone cleanup efforts, the Navy said, and 13 Navy and three Military Sealift Command vessels still have some signs of contamination, mostly to ventilation systems, main engines and generators. “The low levels of radioactivity that re-

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main are in normally inaccessible areas that are controlled in accordance with stringent procedures,� the Navy said in an email. “Work in these areas occurs mainly during major maintenance availabilities and requires workers to follow strict safety procedures.�

All normally accessible spaces and equipment aboard the ships have been surveyed and decontaminated, Vice Adm. William Hilarides, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, said. “The radioactive contamination found on the ships involved in Operation Tomodachi is at such low levels that it does not pose a health concern to the crews, their families, or maintenance personnel,� Hilarides said.

The largest U.S. ship to take part in the relief operation was the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, which normally carries a crew of more than 5,000 sailors.

In 2014, three years after the disaster, the

Reagan’s ventilation system was contaminated with 0.01 millirems of radiation per hour, according to the Navy. Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines advise no more than 2 millirems of radiation in one hour in any unrestricted area, and 100 millirems total in a calendar year from external and internal sources in unrestricted and controlled areas, so full-time exposure on the Reagan would be below that.

Plume of radiation

In the days after the tsunami hit the Fukushima complex, the plant suffered multiple explosions and reactors began to melt down.

Officials from the NRC told Congress that extremely high levels of radiation were being emitted from the impaired plant. Japanese nuclear experts said winds forced a radioactive plume out to sea, and efforts to keep fuel rods cool using seawater caused tons of radiated water to be dumped into the ocean.

The Reagan was dispatched to take part in relief efforts, arriving the next day. Navy officials say the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier stayed at least 100 nautical miles away from the damaged plant, but many sailors have disputed the Navy’s accounting, saying they were so close that they could see the plant.

The Navy has acknowledged that the Reagan passed through a plume of radiation. Navy images showed sailors with their faces covered, scrubbing the deck of the Reagan with soap and water as a precautionary measure afterward. The Reagan and sailors stayed off the coast of Japan for several weeks to aid their Japa-

The two top executives of Wounded Warrior Project were fired March 10 by the board of directors.

Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the charity, expecting their money will help some of the 52,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But CBS News found Wounded Warrior Project spends 40 to 50 percent on overhead, including extravagant parties. Other veterans charities have overhead costs of 10 to 15 percent.

Wounded Warrior Project’s Chief Executive Officer, Steven Nardizzi, and Chief Operating Officer, Al Giordano, were fired after a meeting in New York.

By appealing to America’s generosity, Wounded Warrior Project raised more than a billion dollars in donations since 2003 — $300 million in 2014 alone.

But while the money was pouring in, it was also flowing out on lavish employee conferences — $26 million in 2014. “Let’s get a Mexican mariachi band in there, let’s get maracas made with the WWP logo put them on every staff member’s desk. Lets get it catered, have a big old party,� said Eric Millette, a retired army staff sergeant.

He took a job with Wounded Warrior as a motivational speaker, but after two years he quit. “I’ll be damned if you’re gonna take hard-working Americans’ money and drink it and waste it, instead of helping those brave men and women who gave you the freedom to walk the face of this earth.�

More than 40 former employees said spending by the charity was out of control. Two former employees were so fearful of retaliation they asked remain anonymous. “It was extremely extravagant. Dinners and alcohol and, just total excess,� one said. “I mean, it’s what the military calls fraud waste and abuse.�

Former employees also said the excessive spending began when Nardizzi took over as CEO in 2009. They point to the 2014 annual meeting at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs as typical of his style. “He rappelled down the side of a building. He’s come in on a Segway. He’s come in on a horse.�

Nardizzi has defended the charity’s spending. “If your only fixation is spending the most on programs, that’s feeling good, but not necessarily doing good,� he said.

But many major donors were outraged, including Fred and Dianne Kane.

They raised $325,000 with golf tournaments, and are not pleased with allega-

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who are clinically depressed receive the minimum number of therapy sessions after being diagnosed.

A RAND review of U.S. military and Department of Veterans Affairs treatment guidelines concluded that troops diagnosed with PTSD should receive at least four therapy sessions within eight weeks or at least two sessions to manage newly prescribed medications.

Less than a third of troops with PTSD get full Spouse Employment Partnership reaches treatment milestone with 300 The U.S. military is struggling to provide adequate therapy sessions for thou- partnerships

sands of active-duty troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depresThe Defense Department announced sion, a massive study released Thursday on Feb. 29 that the Military Spouse Emconcludes. ployment Partnership program has now The RAND Corp. study of 40,000 cases, partnered with 300 employers, according the largest ever, found that only a third of NEWS BRIEFS, continued on Page 12 troops with PTSD and less than a quarter

When Kate Pimental turned 18, she got a tattoo that reads, “Let your smile change the world but never let the world change you,� according to a release from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree’s office.

Congresswoman says Marines tattoo policy discriminates against women

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Pingree wrote to Gen. Robert Neller, joining the U.S. Marine Corps was dashed because of a tattoo on her collarbone has commandant of the Marine Corps, to profound an ally in U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, test “several policies and regulations that, who has written to the commandant of the however unintentional, directly affect feMarine Corps to protest policies she said male Marines’ opportunities to serve. As are unintentionally discriminatory against women take more active roles in defending this country, it’s important that we adwomen.

When Kate Pimental turned 18, she got a dress some of the discrepancies that protattoo that reads, “Let your smile change the vide men with options unavailable to their world but never let the world change you,� female counterparts.�

Neller said he would release a revised according to a release from Pingree’s office.

Marine Corps policy discourages ac- version of the Marine Corps tattoo policy cepting recruits with tattoos, but waivers within 30 days.

The four branches of the military each are regularly given when the tattoo can be covered by the official uniform, Pingree, a follows its own tattoo policy, although none permits racist or sexist tattoos. As of Democrat from Maine, said.

A tattoo in the same location on a male April 2015, the U.S. Army no longer limrecruit would be covered by a crew neck its the size or number of tattoos soldiers T-shirt in the standard Marine Corps uni- can have on their arms or legs, although form, but the Marine Corps uniform for tattoos on one’s face, neck or hand — save women is cut lower, and Pimental’s tattoo one ring tattoo per hand — are not permitted. The Navy prohibits tattoos anywhere would be exposed, Pingree said. “That’s not right, and it keeps smart, ca- that are visible when wearing a crew neck pable women like Kate from being able to T-shirt, except in special circumstances.

The Air Force prohibits “excessive� tattoos. serve her country,� Pingree said.

Pingree said Pimental meets every prePimental said goodbye to friends who were leaving for bootcamp. She continues requisite required by the Marine Corps to train at the Marine Recruiting Center Recruiting Command, and she has alin South Portland with other members of ready been training with other recruits in a Poolee program, which helps prepare re- the area.

Pimental said in the release that she cruits for boot camp. “It is an amazing program,� she said. “I remains determined to join the Marine have definitely gotten a lot stronger since Corps. “I’m going to do this no matter how long I’ve started training with them. It is very intense and hard sometimes, but after we it takes,� Pimental said. “Serving in the finish, at the end of the day, I’m proud I Marines is tough, but I know in my heart did it. They show you how much you can I can do it. It’s going to make me a better push yourself to do more than what you person. I’m very grateful that Congressthought you can do. And we all have got- woman Pingree is going to bat for me.�

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t Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests Feb. 5. t Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government Feb. 10. t An 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale earthquake hits Santiago and ValparaĂ­so,

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Chile March 3, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and about a million people homeless. t Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union on March 11. t South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages April 15. t The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote May 13. The right

is revoked in 1999 and re-instated in 2005. t Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise more than $125 million July 13 for famine relief in Ethiopia. t The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran on Aug. 20 in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras. The public does not know about the arms sale. t The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located Sept. 1 by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard. t An 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City on Sept. 19. Around 10,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless. t President Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time Nov. 19 in Geneva.

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t In Hollywood, the charity single “We Are the World� is recorded Jan. 28 by USA for Africa. t The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS on March 4, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States. t WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden on March 31. t Madonna launches her Virgin Tour, her first concert tour, in New York City on April 10. t Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke on April 23 (the response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months). t An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser on May 15 at University of California, Berkeley. t Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario on May 31, killing 77. t U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned June 27. t “Back to the Future� opens in American theaters July 3 and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.

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TOMI LAHREN Continued from Page 1

“Millennial Bill of Rights is trending — gotta love Twitter — so what rights do we as young people demand?� she asked. “The right to complain when our parents make us spend the Christmas money they gave us. The right to blame the free market and the bank for making us take on student loan debt. Or the right to whine all day on social media that we aren’t rich and famous? “Meanwhile, sitting on Instagram, instead of being productive? Is that really the so-called Bill of Rights we petitioned for? We are better than this.�

Lahren says millenials should have a right to be “ticked off,� but not for the reasons she’s read people complaining about. “We should be ticked off that unlike like our grandparents, our parents are babying us,� she said. “Welcome to 2016 where tough love has become harassment and losing has become participation, where teachers are more worried about what red pens do to self esteem than what mediocre effort does to the future. “We don’t have ‘failure to launch’ syndrome because we’re lazy, we fail to launch because with no foot in the butt, the butt stays on the couch.�

Lahren loves to shock people about her career. Since she’s only 23-years-old, they’re not expecting to hear she’s the host of her own conservative political talk show.

Lahren was raised in Rapid City, S.D., by hard-working parents who taught her strong work ethics and the importance of family and community.

She credits them with the reason she has been able to achieve so much already. “They’ve believed in me and they’ve always been supportive.�

Family dinners were the highlight of her childhood evenings. Nightly discussions centered around topics featured on “ABC Nightly News.� “I cannot tell you how many times I would pause the show to give my two cents.� said Lahren, recalling those cherished memories. “You name it, we talked about it.�

She has always had a passion for politics and was student body president and

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“If it matters to the American people, it matters to me,� says commentator Tomi Lahren, whose videos from her show on The Blaze have gone viral.

school board representative in high school.

It was also her start in television. “I cut my ‘television teeth’ doing the announcements with my cousin and vice president, Kenzie Slater. I loved the camera. I loved talking to my peers. Even if it was just reading what was for lunch. It was something.�

Lahren didn’t want to leave Rapid City but to go into political commentary she would have to expand her horizons.

She chose University of Nevada, Las Vegas and became a panelist and then host on the UNLV political roundtable show called “The Scramble.� On the show, students discuss the issues of the day. “‘The Scramble’ cemented my passion for political commentary. I was able to facilitate an honest and open dialogue. It allowed me to gain the experience I would

need as host of my own show.� Lahren explained.

Before she graduated from UNLV, Lahren wanted to find an internship in political commentary. Her Google search for “conservative news outlets� found One America News Network, which broadcasts

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gave me a show.�

Beginning in August 2014, she hosted “On Point� for the network for a year, when her pithy, rapid-fire delivery landed her a job at The Blaze in Dallas, where she continues to delight the ears — and eyes — of conservatives everywhere.

Young people don’t feel they can relate to the conservatives they see on Fox News.

They need a new face, that can speak to them, not at them.

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— Tomi Lahren

Lahren’s vision for her show is simple. from San Diego. “If it matters to the American people, it “It was a new network, just on the verge of something big. The Herring family de- matters to me.�

And she knows being young won’t hinder scribed it as an alternative to Fox News.

The values of conservative news balanced her, in fact she’s sure it’s a positive thing. “Young people don’t feel they can relate with the no-fluff news headlines. It soundto the conservatives they see on Fox News. ed like a perfect fit,� she said.

Lahren submitted her information, They need a new face, that can speak to them, not at them,� Lahren said. hoping to be an intern.

Her thoughts are not new, but Lahren The network was interested and they set certainly receives attention, and those who up an interview, which went well. “After our tour we went back to Rob- believe in her message elevate her. Those ert Herring’s office. He asked me what I who dislike what she’s saying elevate her wanted to do. I told him I would literally too. Lahren is all-around hard to ignore, ‘do whatever.’ I just wanted the opportu- and you’ll find yourself either agreeing or nity. He looked at me and said, ‘how about shaking your head. Whatever the case, you your own show.’ My jaw dropped. I was shall be entertained by her distaste for, stunned. I just wanted an internship. He well, everything.

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After examining his wife, the doctor said, “Everything appears to be fine. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?� She replied that she had no questions or concerns.

The doctor then asked, “Your husband had an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually hot and sweaty after having sex the first time with you and cold and chilly after the second time, do you know why?� “Oh, that old fool!� she replied. “That’s Dirty things A passionate wife told her husband because the first time is usually in July and to whisper dirty things into her ear. The the second time is usually in December.� husband replied, “The kitchen, the living room, and the dining room.

Financial transparency A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when The trick A young boy enters a barber shop and the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.� The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?� The boy takes the quarters and leaves. “What did I tell you?� said the barber. “That kid never learns!�

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. “Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?�

The boy licked his cone and replied, “Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!�

An old man sitting at the mall watched a teenager intently. The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, and blue. The old man kept staring at him.

When the teenager was tired of being stared at, he sarcastically asked, “What’s the matter, old man? Never did anything wild in your life?�

The old man did not bat an eye when he responded, “Got drunk once and slept with a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son.�

Three couples went in to see the minister to see how to become members of his church. The minister said that they would have to go without sex for two weeks and then come back and tell him how it went.

The first couple was retired, the second couple was middle-aged and the final couple was newlywed.

Two weeks went by, and the couples returned to the minister. The retired couple said it was no problem at all. The middleaged couple said it was tough for the first week, but after that, it was no problem.

The newlyweds said it was fine until she dropped the can of paint. “Can of PAINT!� exclaimed the minister. “Yeah,� said the newlywed man. “She dropped the can and when she bent over to pick it up I had to have her right there and then. Lust took over.�

The minister just shook his head and said that they were not welcome in the church.

Family tradition “That’s okay,� said the man. “We’re no A man wants to cook a fancy meal for longer welcome in Home Depot either.� his wife, so he makes his mother’s recipe for beef roast. Before putting the roast into the oven, he cuts off the end. His wife Trying out for the team The huge college freshman decided to asks him why he did that. “I dunno,� he says. “My mom always try out for the football team. “Can you tackle?� asked the coach. “Watch this,� did that. I think it has to do with the meat said the freshman, who proceeded to run cooking more evenly.� “But that’s a very expensive cut of meat,� smack into a telephone pole, shattering it to splinters. “Wow,� said the coach. “I’m says the wife, “and you just threw away a good piece of it!� impressed. Can you run?�

So they call the mother. The son asks, “Of course I can run,� said the freshman.

He was off like a shot, and, in just over “Mom, when you make beef roast, why do nine seconds, he had run a hundred yard you always cut off the end?� “I’m not sure,� she says. “My mother aldash. “Great!� enthused the coach. “But ways did that. I think it was a superstition can you pass a football?�

The freshman hesitated for a few sec- she had from the old country.�

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When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.â€? After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,‌ “Who was that?â€? “It was Bob the next door neighbor,â€? she replies. “Great!â€? the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?â€?

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“Daddy,� a little girl asked her father, “do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once upon a time’? “ “No, sweetheart,� he answered. “Some begin with ‘If I am elected.’�

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Who lost Iraq? The American people

By Dr. Earl Tilford The Center for Vision & Values

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y parents originally named me “Victory Japan� because my slightly premature birth resulted from mom and dad dancing in the streets of Saint Petersburg, Fla. on the night of Aug. 16, 1945 — the day after the United States won its last war. Seventy years is a lifetime by the Biblical standard of our allotted three score and 10 years. Go back to 1945 and subtract 70 and you are two years away from the end of Reconstruction.

In my lifetime Republicans blamed Democrats for “losing� China to communists and not winning in Korea while Democrats blamed Republicans for losing Vietnam and want to blame the GOP for losing Iraq. In this heated and increasingly bizarre presidential campaign season, with the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, “Who lost Iraq?� has become a key issue. Predictably, Democrats blame former President George W. Bush while Republicans blame current President Barack Obama.

It was Bush who on Dec. 14, 2008, as he was about to leave office, signed a Status of Forces Agreement that stated, “All the United States Forces shall be withdrawn from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.� While former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her book “No Higher Honor,� claims there was an understanding with then Iraqi President Nouri Maliki that a residual force might remain, it seems Maliki later “reneged.� Bush left it to Obama to negotiate a new understanding.

Leon Panetta, one of Obama’s secretaries of defense, claims in his book “Worthy Fights� that Maliki insisted a new agreement providing immunity from Iraqi prosecution of U.S. forces would never be

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accepted by the Iraqi parliament. Perhaps Maliki preferred chaos and Iranian domination to a tough political fight in his own parliament. Panetta wrote, “To my frustration the White House coordinated the negotiations but never really led them.� President Obama satisfied the documentation, blamed Bush, and withdrew the troops.

It’s a moot point since the Obama administration is losing the entire Middle East and Afghanistan to an Iranian-Russian “axis.� Meanwhile, the United States, a nation of 330 million people, has politically devolved into a democratic mob choosing between a bombastic business

ety. During the last quarter century, many Christians and Jews in Europe and North America abandoned their religious faith for a postmodern philosophy spawned by leftist academic, religious, and political elites who reject notions of definitive truth and absolutes like good and evil.

Believing in little to nothing invites those who fervently embrace a cause, no matter how ill-informed or intellectually bankrupt, to attack and destroy us.

When President Obama, former President Bill Clinton, presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders refuse to recognize the evil inherent in Salafist Islam they empower Al-Qaeda and ISIS. We, as a people, have weakened our own academic and religious institutions and by extension our body politic by not acknowledging evil for what it is. Consequently, we are confused to the point that we cannot or will not act to destroy the very real threats we face.

The recent political debates — regardless of parties — are illustrative. Republicans insult and snipe at each other over ridiculous issues like who can or cannot speak Spanish, while Democrats spew bilge about America being a society of racists and homophobic bigots unwelcoming to immigrants and refugees. When political debate devolves to candidates campaigning for the American presidency by performing skits on “Saturday Night Live,� it’s clear we are a confused people who lost not only Iraq but also are about to lose ourselves to a postmodern world of our own making.

We, as a people, have weakened our own academic and religious institutions... by not acknowledging evil for what it is.

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mogul, a former secretary of state who may be indicted or inaugurated, and a self-declared socialist who honeymooned in the USSR. The question shouldn’t be “Who lost Iraq?� It should be “Who is losing the Middle East and Afghanistan?�

Beyond that, the larger questions are “Who are we and what have we become as a people and a nation?� After all, we elected Barack Obama — twice.

The unmitigated evil ISIS does is meant to intimidate its co-religionists, terrify Christians and Jews, and enslave entire nations. It also issues from the mainstream of Saudi Wahhabism, a form of Islam that originated in 18th century Arabia. Millions adhere to it and mean to foist it on the Judeo-Christian West from Eastern and Western Europe and on to North and South America.

It is partially our fault that a ridiculous confluence of political progressivism and Eastern religious fundamentalism threatens the existence of Western soci-

to officials from the DOD Spouse Education and Career Opportunities Office.

The program, launched in June 2011 by Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is an employment and career partnership connecting military spouses to partner organizations and companies who have committed to recruit, hire, promote and retain military spouses in portable careers. “This is such an exciting and important milestone for the program and for the thousands of military spouses around the world who search for meaningful employment and career opportunities,� said Rosemary Williams, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military community and family policy.

The partnership includes corporations, small businesses and other organizations that post job openings on the Military Spouse Employment Partnership Career Portal, mentor military spouses and other employers, and provide employment data on military spouses hired, officials said.

Gerard Butler agrees to attend Marine Corps ball with female Marine Last week Gerard Butler, star of several Hollywood blockbuster movies, took a tour of Camp Pendleton. Butler was on hand to give Marines a sneak peek of his new movie, “London has Fallen.�

Base Marines showed him their Martial Arts program, and requested he show them his moves from his hit movie, “300.�

Butler joined more Marines at the base theater, anxious for his arrival. “I never forget these moments,� Butler said. “That’s why we come here.�

One female Marine was able to ask Butler a very important question: Would he accompany her to the Marine Corps ball?

On camera, Butler agreed, and will be back to Camp Pendleton in the fall for the annual event.

Pentagon report says spy planes have flown missions over U.S. land

The Pentagon has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade, but the flights have been rare and lawful, according to a new report.

The report by a Pentagon inspector general, made public under a Freedom of Information Act request, said spy drones on non-military missions have occurred fewer than 20 times between 2006 and 2015 and always in compliance with existing law.

The Pentagon has publicly posted at least a partial list of the drone missions that have flown in non-military airspace over the United States and explains the Dr. Earl Tilford is a military historian and fellow use of the aircraft. The site lists nine misfor the Middle East & terrorism with The Center sions flown between 2011 and 2016, largefor Vision & Values at Grove City College. From ly to assist with search and rescue, floods, 1993 to 2001, he served as Director of Research fires or National Guard exercises. at the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute.

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The Kentucky Wildcats are positioned to win it all in the NCAA Tournament.

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with their selections that essentially said their criteria outside of a conference tournament title wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to get into the NCAAs. That left Monmouth, St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Valparaiso and San Diego State outside of the field. Wichita State was the only mid-major to notch an at-large bid, while Northern Iowa captured the Missouri Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auto bid. And Gonzaga likely would have missed the cut had it not ousted St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the West Coast tournament final.

All three of these No. 11 seeds have open paths to reach the Sweet 16. The Shockers have a very winnable play-in game against Vanderbilt. Then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d face Arizona and likely Miami. Two tough teams, but two winnable games when you have perhaps the best backcourt in the country in Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker.

Northern Iowa plays Texas in the opening round and then would likely need to beat Texas A&M to reach the second weekend.

Considering how hot the Panthers are â&#x20AC;&#x201D; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won 12 of 13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surely possible.

As for Gonzaga, this was a preseason Final Four team for some experts with Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis in the frontcourt. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Zags will get an opportunity to make up for an underachieving season against a red-hot Seton Hall team and then likely Utah in the round of 32 if they won.

Three times wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a charm for Virginia against Michigan State These two teams have met each other in the past two NCAA tournaments, first in the Sweet 16 in 2014 and last year in the round of 32. Both times, Virginia was a higher seed projected to win but ultimately fell to Michigan State. The committee surely wanted another rematch here, with both teams in the Midwest.

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theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the favorite because the Spartans arguably deserved a No. 1 seed themselves after winning the Big Ten tournament, whereas UVa finished second to North Carolina in both the ACC regular season and tournament. Regardless, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to see these teams not meeting each other in the Elite Eight based on how great theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also difficult to imagine Tony Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team getting the best of Tom Izzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the Spartans are a title favorite to many and have National Player of the Year Denzel Valentine on their roster.

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TWENTYNINE PALMS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Environmentalists are legally challenging plans to relocate 1,100 federally protected desert tortoises to accommodate expansion of U.S. Marine Corps activities.

The relocation at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, if carried out, would be the largest ever attempted, said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed notice Tuesday about its challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The proposed translocation is a disaster for the already at-risk desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said.

This population has already declined by 50 percent in the past 10 years, Anderson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the past is any guide, up to half of the tortoises wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t survive this relocation, pushing these tortoises in the west Mojave mittee for their mediocre rĂŠsumĂŠ with closer to extinction,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said. the best win coming against Purdue.

Questions about the proposed tortoise On paper, Maryland has the most comrelocation posed to Marine Base Twentyplete starting lineup in the country. Melo nine Palms and the U.S. Bureau of Land Trimble and Jake Layman are great in the Management went unanswered. backcourt, freshman star Diamond Stone A spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and plays older than he is and the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best Wildlife Service said the agency does not players, on many nights, were transfers comment on pending litigation.

Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke) and Robert â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did complete a consultation with Carter (Georgia Tech). the U.S. Marine Corps regarding expanOf all the No. 12 seeds, South Dakota sion of training,â&#x20AC;? said Jane Hendron, a State seems the most unlikely to pull off spokeswoman for the wildlife service. an upset. So the path will be there, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;That consultation was completed in Mark Turgeonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group will have to beat 2012 and a biological opinion was issued good teams to get to Houston â&#x20AC;&#x201D; odds on July 17, 2012. We are currently workare Kansas and Villanova will stand in ing with the Marine Corps to complete a the way in the South Region. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to revised biological opinion,â&#x20AC;? she said in a foresee them doing that, but the talent is written response to a reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s question. there and there have been flashes of how The expanded training area proposed good the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Terps can be. Some teams peak for use by the Marine Corps is not desheading into the NCAA tournament. ignated as critical habitat for the desert Some teams blossom right as the tournatortoise. Translocated tortoises from the ment begins. That could be Maryland. proposed expanded training area will be placed into a low-density tortoise area to Kentucky annoyingly wins it all augment the population, she said.

The Wildcats had the perfect team The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is last season, entering the NCAA tournaworking closely with the Marine Corps ment 34-0 and chasing the first undeand Bureau of Land Management while it feated season since 1976. But Wisconsin completes the revised biological opinion, stunned Kentucky in the Final Four and Hendron said. busted brackets everywhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; showing Anderson said according to chatter she the cold reality that the single-eliminagleaned from several Internet sources, it tion NCAA tournament isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kind to even appeared that the tortoise transfer was the most dominant of teams. So how outgoing to begin at the end of this month -rageous would it be if John Calipariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farwithout public notice. less talented Wildcats won the national In 2009, the U.S. Army stopped a large championship in 2016? Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that be desert tortoise relocation at Fort Irwin bewild? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually not that far off. cause of massive tortoise deaths.

UK is hitting its stride and just won One of the problems in relocating torthe SEC tournament title against a vastly toises is that they unable to find shelter underrated Texas A&M team. Tyler Ulis in unfamiliar territory. Many are eaten by (30 points against A&M in title game) is predators as a result, Anderson said. arguably the best player in the country The letter sent to Marine Maj. Gen Lewand, meshed with explosive guard Jais A. Craparotta, commanding general of mal Murray, Kentucky has a backcourt the Twentynine Palms base, and other fedfar superior to Andrew and Aaron Hareral officials provided 60 daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; notice that rison. The frontcourt is unspectacular but both the BLM and Marines have â&#x20AC;&#x153;failed to thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s depth and plenty of weaponry to ensure against jeopardyâ&#x20AC;? in plans for the cut down the nets in Houston. proposed translocation of desert tortoise.

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nese allies.

The multibillion-dollar ship, projected to last at least 50 years after its launch in 2001, then was taken offline for more than a year for â&#x20AC;&#x153;deep maintenance and modernizationâ&#x20AC;? at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, according to Navy officials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Procedures were in place to survey, control and remove any low-level residual contamination,â&#x20AC;? the Navy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personnel working on potentially contaminated systems were monitored with sensitive dosimeters, and no abnormal radiation exposures were identified.â&#x20AC;?

Upgrades and cleaning also took place at the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next stop in San Diego.

Sailors who performed the work said it entailed entering spaces deep within the ship, testing for high levels of radiation, and if it was found, sanding, priming and painting the areas. They say there were given little to no protective gear, a claim that the Navy denies.

Of the 1,360 individuals aboard the Reagan who were monitored by the Navy following the incident, more than 96 percent were found not to have detectable internal contamination, the Navy said. The highest measured dose was less than 10 percent of the average annual exposure to someone living in the United States.

taryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response and safeguards.

Any illnesses that sailors have developed since the operation are not a result of the relief campaign, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no objective evidence that the sailors ... experienced radiation exposures that would result in an increase in the expected number of radiogenic diseases over time,â&#x20AC;? Woodson wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The estimated radiation doses for all individuals in the Operation Tomodachi registry, including sailors on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, were very small and well below levels associated with adverse medical conditions.â&#x20AC;?

Furthermore, Woodson said, more sailors would have been sick if the levels were high enough to cause the illnesses cited. There were upward of 5,000 sailors aboard the Reagan at the time of the operation. He also said symptoms developed too early to be associated with the operation.

But Shinzo Kimura â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a professor at Dokkyo Medical University in Japan who has studied radiation exposure from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Chernobyl and, now, Fukushima â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too early for sailors to show symptoms of exposure-related conditions. Doctors have seen conditions in children living near the plant that surfaced earlier than would normally be expected.

Kimura, hired by the Nihonmatsu city government for his expertise in the field, was the first scientist on the ground taking readings in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. He said each person and the way their body is affected by radiation is different.

While unable to definitively say if the sailors were sickened by the radiation, Kimura reasoned that the levels aboard the Reagan were high enough to cause illnesses. Otherwise, he said, why go through the bother of repeated cleanings to lower radiation levels? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is impossible to speculate or calculate how much the doses were before the two decontamination works,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The U.S. military is very good at riskmanagement. Considering that, it is assumed that decontaminations were conducted twice because the levels were not favorable.â&#x20AC;?

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a strong woman who is proving her worth to herself. The relationships she creates are with people who truly care and, to be honest, who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about Fey! Freeman as Iain just threw me for a loop.

Radiation effects unkown First of all I have a weakness for Irishmen Experts differ on the effects of radiaso his accent really got to me. More importion in general and, specifically, for those tantly, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see his other characters mixinvolved in Operation Tomodachi. ing in here. It was an awesome shock and I Eight Reagan sailors, claiming a host thoroughly loved him in this role. He gave of medical conditions they say are related a sharpness and humor along with snappy to radiation exposure, filed suit in 2012 wit that just made me love this character against the nuclear plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operator, the and Freeman even more.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. The suit asserts Robbie as Vanderpoel seems to fit right that TEPCO lied, coaxing the Navy closer into the action in Afghanistan. She also to the plant even though it knew the situknows the people and how to have a good ation was dire. General Electric, EBAStime in the middle of a war AND being CO, Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi were later a woman. Molina as Sadiq is so creepy I added as defendants for allegations of canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even stand it. faulty parts for the reactors.

Abbott as Fahim is a man who is true A spokesman for TEPCO declined to to his people and deeply cares about Kim. comment for this story because of the Wanting to help her get the stories, he also sailorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lawsuit, which was slated to go sees the trouble that she is creating for forward pending appeals in the U.S. 9th herself by not listening to those who know Circuit Court of Appeals.

CHARITY better. Just a lovely character.

The illnesses listed in the lawsuit in- Continued from Page 6 Thornton as Hollanek cracked me up clude genetic immune system diseases, headaches, difficulty concentrating, tions that only a little over half of dona- totally. Yes, he is a strong military man thyroid problems, bloody noses, rectal tions went to help wounded vets. and gynecological bleeding, weakness â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like I am representing all these CHARGERS in sides of the body accompanied by the people who have donated over the years, Continued from Page 2 shrinking of muscle mass, memory loss, all these seniors over 65 sending $19 leukemia, testicular cancer, problems month, all these people on fixed incomes,â&#x20AC;? sco had a reportedly $30 million to play with vision, high-pitch ringing in the ears Fred said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If no one is going to talk about with, which begs the question â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how and anxiety. this right now and it has to be me, then it much money is he willing to pay for a The list of sailors who have joined the has to be me.â&#x20AC;? veteran center because both Chris Watt lawsuit, which is making its way through Fred continued, saying he is done with and Trevor Robinson are not the answer. the courts, has grown to 370.

WWP except for his new mission of trying There are two centers still on the market In early 2014, Congress ordered As- to see change within the organization. who are both ranked amongst PFFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top 75 sistant Secretary of Defense for Health Sources told CBS News the board has â&#x20AC;&#x201D; #33 Stefen Wisniewski and #45 ManAffairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson to inves- received preliminary results of a financial uel Ramirez. Both are intriguing in their tigate the claims. audit. And there are discussions under own rights â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wisniewski is familiar with After a peer-reviewed study into the way about retired senior military officers the AFC West having played his first four levels of exposure, Woodson reported who are being considered to take over seasons in the NFL with the Raiders, and back to Congress, defending the mili- leadership of the organization.

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who is doing his job, but there are moments with Fey where I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to hear what he is going to say next. Strong and silent type in this character and Thornton does it well.

Other cast include: Nicholas Braun as Tall Brian, Stephen Peacocke as Nic, Sheila Vand as Shakira Khar, Evan Jonigkeit as Specialist Coughlin, Fahim Anwar as Jaweed, Josh Charles as Chris, Scott Takeda as Ed Faber, Eli Goodman as Tucker Wang and Cherry Jones as Geri Taub.

TUBS OF POPCORN: I give â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whiskey Tango Foxtrotâ&#x20AC;? four tubs of popcorn out of five. First of all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure the first thing that will be asked is what is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whiskey Tango Foxtrotâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WTF right? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a perfect title for the film. There are a few times I think I said that to myself during the film! Fey gives a fantastic performance playing this character with depth, fun, a little craziness and thoughtfulness.

In 2011 Kim Baker wrote â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistanâ&#x20AC;? which is the memoir of her time in Afghanistan.

Jeri Jacquin is the Movie Maven. For more on films and television, go to http//moviemaven. homestead.com.

play both center and guard.

Here is a quote from PFF on both players: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wisniewski had the third-highest pass-blocking efficiency among centers in 2015, as he allowed just 13 total pressures during his first season with Jacksonville. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a young, durable player who has missed 19 snaps over five seasons in the league. Ramirez has been solid over his career and could still be a viable short-term option at age 33. He has the versatility to play either center or guard, which also helps his stock.â&#x20AC;?

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