Author: John Brodgian

I’m confused…and I supposed to cheer for Putin here? Do I wonder where our leaders are in developing our own strategy? The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa. The city is the self-declared capital of ISIS in Syria and is patrolled by as […]

I don’t think bittersweet is the right word, but stories of heroism from average Americans in a time of tragedy always stand out after those times of tragedy.  Here’s an example from last week… A young victim of the horrific Oregon college massacre successfully saved the life of a fellow student even as he lay […]

I shouldn’t be surprised or amazed by the generosity of the American people. However, this is pretty amazing… “While Chris is not the type of person to ask for it, he is going to need all of the help he can get while he recovers!” he added. “Myself and many family members have been swamped […]

There’s a meme going around Facebook that says something along the lines of, “bravery is being the second student to have admitted to being a Christian in Oregon.” Something to think about while you read this… The family of one of the students killed in the Oregon shooting released a statement Friday, remembering their loved […]

I hate having to say something nice about Mike Huckabee, let alone agree with him. But, he does have a point here… Steve Malzberg: I want to go back… What if the shooter had said, “Are you a Muslim?” And shot those in the head who were Muslim. Do you think the president would have […]

Rational adults can respectfully disagree about same sex marriage, just like rational adults can agree that pedophilia is evil.  Actually, you would think that rational adults can agree with that, yet here we are… Pedophiles have been waiting in the shadows for some time and are, I fear, about to launch a campaign to become the […]

Why is it always spiders? This woman kept hearing a scratching noise. When she went to the doctor, apparently there was something alive in there… Li Meng had put off calling the doctor at first because she was afraid that the “scratching noise” that she heard at night was possibly evil spirits, Central European News […]

Isn’t this how most super villains get their start in the comic books? A Russian scientist (of course) may have stumbled on the secret of eternal life… A controversial Russian scientist has injected himself with a 3.5 million year old ‘eternal life’ bacteria fund in the Siberian permafrost – and says he is now stronger […]

Whatever happened to casing a joint out before you robbed it? If this guy did that, we might not be laughing at him getting caught on a security camera… The video shows a stocky man stop his car outside the house in Concord, California, and brazenly run to the doorstep to steal a small cardboard […]

Well, this isn’t at all terrifying. According to an author working on a book about ISIS, they’re planning a nuclear holocaust… The terror group allowed Jürgen Todenhöfer to embed with the group because he has been a high-profile critic of US policy in the Middle East. The German journalist claimed the terror group wants to […]

People have been having fun at the President’s expense, and The Federalist Papers Project was particularly brutal… You can check out the rest of the photos here. They are hysterical. Here’s the part that’s not funny… Putin’s message at the U.N. podium Monday was a simple one: U.S. interventions and unilateralism have backfired in the […]

You may have noticed there is a disagreement among Americans about the Texas/Mexico border, and how best to deal with it. Carl Jr., feels the best way to deal with it is with scantily clad models and cheeseburgers… The new ‘Borderball’ ad for TexMex burgers features two scantily clad beach volleyball teams – the all-blonde Team Tex […]

It alarming that people need to take self defense courses to be ready for when people pull a gun in their church. Thankfully for this church, a father was able to help get in the way of a domestic dispute before it got deadly… Campbell tried to reason with an angry Minter to no avail. Minter then […]

This is nuts. It’s bad enough we’re asking our military to look the other way when it comes to child abuse, because “it’s their culture.” But to throw someone out of the army – dishonorably – because he couldn’t turn a blind eye anymore? Seriously? Many of you have been following the story, as we’ve […]

Sometimes, you just catch someone in a bad mood or having a bad day.  Other times…you catch all this on video! While many women would claim that they hate violence and that as a gender we are pacifists, I would have to disagree. After all, there’s nothing sexier than a man with a slightly bloodied […]

Of course, this would happen in Florida.  Maybe it’s the heat, but whatever happened to just writing sad break up poetry? A South Florida man has been charged with animal cruelty, burglary, stalking and criminal mischief after allegedly strangling a cat belonging to his ex-girlfriend’s mother. Eric Henry Medero, 25, is accused of breaking into […]

You know, I’ve had similar conversations like this with my niece and she has TWO flower girl gigs coming up.  I might have to videotape it. Trying to show him that she means business, she gestures and waves her arms for emphasis. ‘You have to remember,’ she reminds him again, ‘you can’t talk to people.’ […]

If they told us this is what scientific research was in school, I would have never wasted all that time studying to be a screenwriter. There is a new study that says how you sleep with your partner might tell you something about your relationship. You can’t make this stuff up… Do you and your […]

I can’t…am I the only one who didn’t know that we had a doomsday seed vault in the first place? This sounds like a bad Michael Bay movie, yet here we are… The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built in 2008, stores more than 850,000 seed samples from nations all over the world. Extending nearly 500 feet […]

Some people look at the illegal immigration crisis, and try to think of ways of how we can fix and deal with the problem we currently have now. Liberals? They just want to exacerbate things… As the mayors of cities across the country, we see first-hand the myriad ways in which immigrants and refugees make […]

Mark your calendars and tell your friends! The 2nd Annual Bring Your Bible to School Day is on October 8th… Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group, is calling on public school students to express their religious freedom by taking their Bibles to class Oct. 8. About 8,000 students participated in last year’s inaugural […]

Well, this is highly unusual. California residents woke up to find thousands of dead fish where a reservoir used to be… KMAX-TV reported that thousands of fish now lay dead in what used to be Mountain Meadows Reservoir, also known as Walker Lake. “Everywhere that you see that’s wet, there was water,” resident Eddie Bauer […]

I’m torn about this.  One one hand, I think there’s a degree of demonizing welfare recipients that gets in the way of actual (and desperately needed) welfare reforms. On the other hand, Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald does bring up a good point… In Maine there is a website that lists the pension amounts received by […]

I have one simple question for liberals who claim we don’t have a border problem. How does a crime syndicate cross the border, grab someone from their home, and drag them back over the border if we don’t have a border problem? The Mexican Gulf Cartel dispatched a kidnapping cell to the sleepy town, and […]

Pro tip to paedophiles…actually, no pro tip because there aren’t many people in the world who rank lower on the food chain. But, if you’re going to be one and film people publicly, be more alert at who is filming you… Have you ever been caught redhanded? This guy certainly has. Walking around Powell Street […]

Brie Gowen is a busy woman, juggling being a wife, mother, and Intensive Care Unit nurse. She woke up in the middle of the night to find that her husband was suddenly missing. Then she realized why… As she makes her way towards the bathroom, she sees it. “There on the living room floor lay […]

Start off your day with a feel good story! While there is a lot of news that cherry picks the few bad cops out there, in Central Indiana they are going out of their way to say thank you… Kim Achors handed out 200 “Cops Lives Matter” bracelets around central Indiana. Greg Barnes Jr. of […]

You know, there’s seeing a guy berate his girlfriend in public. And then there is people like this piece of garbage… He starts out the conversation by saying, “You dress like a whore,” and it got ugly real fast after that. Understandably the woman’s initial reaction was to argue with the man. But…that just set off […]

Admittedly, this is from 2004. But it just came across the RWN news desk, and sometimes karma can be a…you know. In a case of obvious animal cruelty and karma, Jerry Allen Bradford was trying to shoot puppies in the head because he could not find them a home. He was able to kill three […]

I gotta be honest, I kind of agree with them here. If this is how it really went down, it’s horrifying… “The first two people (and probably most people that wind up on the kiss cam) were happy to oblige the camera,” writes Steve Port of Manlius, New York. “However, the cameraman then scanned into […]