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Conservative radio host Mark Levin shot back at CNN’s Brian Stelter over the Reliable Sources anchor’s “ad hominem attacks about ‘right wing’ radioa and conspiracy theory stuff.” Levin posted his open letter to the CNN journalist on his Facebook page Monday afternoon, after Stelter took the talker to task over his “incendiary idea” about a “silent coup” against President Trump by former president Barack Obama.

Trump’s charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory

President Trump, who this weekend tweeted claims that he’d been wiretapped by his predecessor, boards Air Force One in Florida on his way back to Washington on Sunday. The president’s accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” escalated on Sunday into the White House’s call for a congressional investigation of that evidence-free claim.

Hoyer, who spoke with a statue last week, calls Trump ‘detached from reality’

The second-ranking House Democrat charged that President Trump’s unproven accusation former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign shows that the president is divorced from reality. The allegations outlined in a Trump tweet on Saturday “paint a picture of someone obsessed with conspiracy theories and detached from reality,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the House Minority Whip, in a statement Sunday.

Are Rules Meant to be Broken?

The airplane probably can handle it, but only if you slow down, keep the wings level and accept altitude excursions. While flying from the northeast to south Florida last week it was bumpy at all altitudes and everyone was trying to find a better ride.

a Everybody is a pilot here in Wichitaa

In 2015, more than a third of all general aviation aircraft deliveries came from Wichita airplane manufacturers Bombardier Learjet and Textron Aviation’s Cessna and Beechcraft in Sedgwick County. So it’s probably not a big surprise that the county boasts a larger number of active pilots than any of the state’s other 104 counties – and than any counties in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

High Honor

One morning in July, Lieutenant Benjamin Stone finds himself scheduled to flay at a funeral. The site is Arlington National Cemetery, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Ben Stone is assigned to VFA-81, which is stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia–four hours away as the interstate runs.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: My audience is ‘the…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones – who believes that both the 9/11 terror attack and the massacre at Sandy Hook were “false flag” operations carried out by the United States government – is again openly boasting about his influence on President Donald Trump. In an interview with the New York Times , Jones said that the audience who listens to him is “the teeth” in the president’s “information warfare” campaign that’s aimed at publicizing the kinds of “alternative facts” infamously pushed by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.

Gov. Brownback wants to build an airport in Johnson County

With plans to revamp Kansas City International Airport stalled, Gov. Sam Brownback and others in Kansas government are exploring the possibility of building an airport in Johnson County to rival KCI, The Star has learned. “Airlines are requesting construction of a new single terminal airport at , and the state of Kansas is continually looking for new economic development opportunities,” the governor said in an e-mail.

a Pizzagatea defendant appears in court in D.C.

A man from Salisbury, North Carolina who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C fired a gun inside Comet Ping Pong but did not injure anyone, according to police and news reports. A North Carolina man charged with firing an assault rifle inside a Washington restaurant that conspiracy theorists falsely claimed harbored a child-sex ring remained jailed Friday as his attorney received more time to negotiate a possible plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Kushner: Trump didn’t believe conspiracy theories

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, personally assured skittish acquaintances the President-elect didn’t really believe some of the more outrageous claims he was making, according to a new New York magazine profile. “Back when Trump was spinning birther conspiracy theories, which were lapped up by gullible Republicans, one person who talked to Kushner says he offered assurances that his father-in-law didn’t really believe that stuff,” the report says.

Why people believe fake news, explained

Why do so many Americans have trouble telling truth from fiction online? As humans, we’re wired to believe the worst. The controversy around “fake news” took on a new pall this month when a North Carolina man chose to investigate, gun in hand, a false online conspiracy theory that a Washington.

Love Your Homemade Quilt? Thank Capitalism.

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes-triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons-and the clever arrangement of color and pattern, the quilters of a bygone era created beauty and utility from what we wasteful moderns might simply discard.