Common Sense Seekers

[video] Asked about criticism of the Iran war by Pope Leo XIV and American Catholic bishops, SoW Hegseth responds: "The Pope's going to do his thing, that's fine. We know what our mission is. We know what authority we have. We're very clear about that."

[image] 4/22/2004 Pat Tillman, who after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, felt it was his duty to protect the homeland and quit his NFL career to enlist in the US Army, was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Tillman, 27, was mistaken for a enemy combatant by his

[image] Maybe he could get Iran to send back some of the money he gave them to pay his contractors. Mike Owen, the owner of Adamson Plumbing Contractors, has had to shut down his business and lay off 25 employees after he wasn't paid for work on the Obama Presidential Library where he

[image] She made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the children she so dearly loved. Beloved New Jersey crossing guard Jean Schultz, 80, was struck and killed by a vehicle after pushing 2 children she was helping cross the street out of harm's way. Both children were taken to the

[image] Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is pushing to revive his effort to punish Sen Mark Kelly for partaking in a video with other Democratic veteran lawmakers urging service members to "refuse illegal orders." Kelly has sued and a US district judge issued a preliminary injunction

[image] In case you noticed flags flown at half staff today, this is the reason. In a tradition started in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy and a joint resolution of Congress, May 15 is National Peace Officers Memorial Day where fallen officers are honored by flags being flown at half

[image] MEDAL OF HONOR MONDAY Marine Corps Pfc Ronald Leroy Coker earned his on March 24, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Coker was from Alliance, Nebraska, and born to Cecil and Nellie Coker on Aug 9th, 1947. Coker was known for his quiet intelligence and stood 6 foot 3

[image] It will definitely be worth it, but expenses times four! Jenitar Náanoana, a 34-year-old Australian mom has given birth to an extremely rare set a quadruplets in a naturally conceived pregnancy that doctor's say occurs only once in 15 million cases. The "precious miracles"

[image] I fully support this, nothing wrong with it. On Monday War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Kid Rock got a ride in AH-64 Apache helicopters, the same kind that caused such a stir when they "buzzed" Kid Rock's Tennessee estate. They rode separately in what Hegseth called a "community

[video] Kash Patel is going nuts as he celebrates with the gold medal winning American Hockey Team!

[video] President Trump ended two days of guessing Thursday by saying that Iran had gifted him 10 “big boats” of oil in a show of goodwill.

[image] Retired Marine vet Horace Oates Jr., is being hailed as a "hero" after he died while using what he learned from military training to rescue his family from a house fire before it was completely engulfed in flames. According to his stepdaughter Breonna Blackwell, "I feel like he

[image] This is an amazing find and I wish they could figure out how it got there. A 13-year-old schoolboy in Berlin discovered a ancient Greek coin in a field linked to the Iron Age that dates between 800 and 450 BCE. A numismatist, professional coin enthusiast, identified it as a

[image] I'm so happy this is not happening anywhere around me. A cold-storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights just outside Los Angeles, has health officials deeply concerned. The fire caused millions of pounds of meat to rot, causing an invasion of noxious odors, rodents, and a biblical

[image] How awesome for those family members, although most probably never met him. Air Force Staff Sgt Nicholas Governale, who served with the 69th Bombardment Squadron, died when his Mitchell B-25C-1 crashed off the Soloman Islands in 1943. More than 80 years after his death, a

[image] Tell me how this is even possible. Does the CIA even vet people that work for them or just trust! David Rush, a wannabe spy and fraud, convinced the CIA to give him $40M in gold bars, telling them it was for "work related expenses." He lied about his whole background including

[image] Mental Institutions really need to be opened back up. A mentally ill woman lashed out while experiencing an episode and beheaded a statue of Jesus at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Long Island, NY. As usual though, the good guys in blue came to the rescue. Suffolk County Police

[image] MEDAL OF HONOR MONDAY Navy Lt. Commander Jackson Pharris earned his on Dec 7, 1941, along Battleship Row on the USS California, on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. Pharris was in charge of the California's repair party on the ship's 3rd deck when a Japanese torpedo

[image] Casey Reinke, a Marine veteran, and his daughter Elliana, 14, were cruising down Carefree Avenue in Arizona when they witnessed a speeding car slammed into a pickup truck with both vehicles bursting into flames. Reinke didn't hesitate, told Elliana to call police and jumped out

[image] The "ethical hacker" who created the Bluetooth "signal sniffer" being used to track Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker is now creating an app. David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, is attached to the Pima County Sheriff's Office helicopter hovering over homes and said the range is 800 feet.

[image] Thank you for that officer who put it all on the line to protect life and property. Dramatic body-cam video shows the moment a Beeville, TX, officer braves floodwaters to rescue a baby who caught in the floodwaters with their family. The Patrolman, Matthew Fuentes, braved the

[image] Wall Street executives are pleading with White House officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to intervene in the high-stakes drama between President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Powell said he will stay on as Fed Chair even after his term ends as the Trump

[image] There is no way to deny it. This man has good eyesight and a lot of patience! Lou Salas, a Colorado grandfather, finally completed the world's largest jigsaw puzzle, a monstrosity of 60,000 pieces, after placing the last missing piece to the puzzle the maker mailed to him. He

[video] President Trump shot down a reporter when pressed on why he chose to vote by mail in the Florida elections despite his criticism of mail-in ballots.

[image] A 110-unit housing development close to the border of Yosemite National Park is drawing outrage as mysterious developers move forward. The 31-acre property will be handled by Camp Yosemite LLC., a Fullerton, CA, company with a oft-disiplined former attorney and a former plastic

[image] They are definitely too cute to go extinct. Hopefully, they can make a comeback. A critically endangered red ruffed lemur gave birth to the cutest set of triplets at Wild Adventures Theme Park in Georgia. Thankfully, mom Val, Taylor, Marjorie and Red are doing well with proud

[video] Trump vows Iran will never have nukes while mourning 13 war dead. That is great that their deaths will be to make the world a better and safer place.🙏🫡🇺🇸

[image] MEDAL OF HONOR MONDAY Army Staff Sgt Jimmy G. Stewart earned his in the jungles of Vietnam in the early morning hours of May 18, 1966. Stewart enlisted in the Army on April 25, 1960, and was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany, where he met and married a woman named

[image] 4/25/1945 US President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, that FDR had not even shared with his vice president. America's secret project to develop the atomic bomb began in 1939. In fact, when Truman asked about expenditures about a suspicious plant in

[image] Eventually if it continues, a maniac will succeed. A witness, Helen Mabus, was a volunteer working the WHCD, said the suspected gunman pulled a "long" weapon from a bag and assembled it in a unsecured area near the terrace-level entrance. The "makeshift room" was where bar carts

[image] Owner Steven Maa had dropped off his 10-year-old brindle mutt, approximately named Rocky, with a pet sitter on Dec 28th with he got spooked and escaped into the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The terrified owner, and his partner, Kate, searched all night into the morning during a

[image] This could be another new weapon being used for the first time. Keep them coming. US Central Command has put in a request to deploy, the Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, known as "Dark Eagle," that has a reported range of 1,725 miles and specifically made for "long range

[video] Missing Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is unconscious and “unable to be involved in any decision-making,” according to an intelligence memo — weeks after he was severely injured in US-Israeli strikes that killed his father and ignited the war.

[image] A North Carolina woman was reportedly left stunned when an otter sprang from the bushes on a trail and mauled her as she was cheering on her friends running in a marathon. Erin Hogston was standing on the side of a paved trail waiting for her friends to pass when she heard a

[image] I'm so happy the community came together to reunite him with his keepsake! Ninty year old veteran Jim Pryce's daughter Kim put a call out to the Fresno, CA, community to help find his maplewood walking stick. The retired police Lt. had the walking stick made for him by a

[image] Team USA received a congratulatory phone call from President Trump after its 2-1 victory over Canada to win the gold metals in men's hockey for the first time in 46 years. USA Coach Mike Sullivan said, "He spoke to the group expressing how proud he was of the group and

[image] More than 500,000 women and girls across the US are estimated to be living with permanent physical and emotional damage of female genital mutation, (FGM) according to the most recent national analysis by the CDC. Yet in Minnesota - a state that made FGM a felony 3 decades ago -

[image] A US Air Force pharmacist and his husband are accused of stealing over $3M from the Department of War to fund their lavish lifestyle that included purchasing a Porsche, BMW and a mansion in Arizona. Staff Sgt Richard Stephon Ramroop,35, and Manuel George Madrid, 32, were hit with

[image] 5/22/1802 President George Washington's devoted widow and the nations first First Lady, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, dies at her Mt. Vernon home at the age of 70. Like her husband Martha was born as a British subject (1731). The petit dark-haired woman married a successful

[image] Thankfully the city council stepped in before the town went bankrupt. A standing room only crowd of concerned citizens, media, and former police officers attended a city council meeting in Cohutta, GA, on Friday, where the council voted to reinstate the whole police force with

[image] Thank goodness for all the first responders who risk it all to keep us save. Southlake Police Corporal Joshua Swisher placed himself in extreme danger when he pulled a man from a vehicle engulfed in flames. Immediately after the car exploded and it was all caught on the

[image] The Iranian foreign minister announced Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is open, and any country besides the US and Israel may pass through it. It is an attempt by Iran the bust the coalition that the US has built in the area. Sixteen ships that have been attached since the war

[image] 4/23/1778 At 3am Commander John Paul Jones departs his ship the USS Ranger in 2 rowboats with a small detachment to raid the shallow port of Whitehaven, England, where 400 British merchant ships were anchored. The port was protected by 2 forts. Jones boat successfully captured

[image] The Army has launched an investigation after a military helicopter was seen in a viral video hovering yards away from Kid Rock's Tennessee estate during a training run on Saturday. Maj. Montrell Russell an Army spokesperson, confirmed that the branch had begun an administrative

[image] President Trump has shown the party the way to midterm victory during his SOTU address. Hammer the Democrats on illegal immigration and taxes according to the presidents longtime pollster. John McLaughlin, who did polling for Trump's 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaigns said that if

[image] Zero gravity in space makes even the smallest tasks a precarious operation - like using the bathroom umm..number 2. "The feces gets sucked down into the bottom of a bag,and you close it off and squish it down into a canister," explained Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hanson. The

[image] Iran is preparing to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global trading route that oversees transport of 20% of the world's oil supply. Despite the destruction of more than 50of it's naval vessels, Tehran still has 80% of its small boats and mine-laying vessels

[image] Good news as 5 have been found in good condition. Elite divers have located five of the seven villagers inside a flooded Laos cave, and now it's a race against time to locate the other two and get them out. The 5 villagers were found sitting on a rock surrounded by floodwaters.

[image] Man, I'm sure glad he didn't bring a case of whiskey. Alaska bush pilot Kenneth Jouppi, claims the state of Alaska have tried to illegally sieze his $95,000 airplane after a passenger he was transporting brought a six-pack of beer to a dry village. On Monday, the US Supreme

[image] I truly am in awe how the residents of California can continue to support these politicians that do anything to steal their money. With wineries failing in Napa valley, a study was done to reveal to reason. The answer taxes and regulations. Compliance costs are $1,700 an acre per