West Point Grad Touts Communism, Colin Kaepernick

West Point Grad Touts Communism, Colin Kaepernick

The United States Military Academy is now oddly linked to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the growing trend of National Football League players electing to take a knee during the singing of the national anthem.

The West Point connection surfaced this week after a recent graduate posted photos of himself to social media in which he expresses his apparent commitment to communism, under the handle @punkproletarian and the nickname "Commie Bebop," complete with the Twitter hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick.

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Another U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint in Northern New Hampshire

John Cronin

For the second time this year, the U.S. Border Patrol set up a checkpoint on Route I-93 southbound in northern New Hampshire looking for foreigners in the country illegally. This one was set up Tuesday in Thornton.

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