A sledgehammer at the Iwo Jima statue. Last Wednesday night, police near Marine Corps Base Quantico found a man hammering the limestone flag-raising memorial; one Marine's head had been knocked off, and police put the damage in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, per Military Times and NBC Washington. A 27-year-old Stafford man is charged with three felonies and held without bond; no motive has been given. Fox News, citing federal sources, reports he came into the country illegally as a child and lost DACA status this year. President Trump called it "a disgrace." That statue is a promise we made to the men who paid for it.
Also in today's episode:
– Somebody registered Fani Willis to vote in New York, as a Republican living in Trump Tower (WSB-TV, Hoodline)
– An 80-ton hanging boulder that held on for over a century falls on the last day of the season; nobody hurt (Boston Globe, Fox Weather)
– Pollster Frank Luntz on CNN: why he got 2016 wrong, and why turnout beats the polls (The Blaze, Western Journal)
– Texas early voting opens with a first-day midterm record in Harris County as Paxton and Talarico fight for the Senate seat (Fox 26, Texas Tribune)
– Ilhan Omar posts a lakeside video set to a Somali song that a Free Beacon translation says is about enemies suffering; no charges (Free Beacon, Breitbart)
– A California woman accused of spying for China on the Taiwanese president's son pleads not guilty (CBS News, KTLA)
– British Columbia elects its first Conservative government since 1928, and the premier resigns (CTV News)
– Church volunteers who stopped gunmen, from Texas to Tennessee to California (Fox News, Gateway Pundit)
There is a famine of truth in our land. Nine stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
