[Flowers cover the ground and barricades on Wednesday where protesters were killed in a recent clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square. Image via Efrem Lukatsky/AP.]

A pre-scheduled visit to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. by a group of Mississippi veterans went ahead despite the government shutdown after the vets refused to allow the barricade around the closed memorial to hold them back.

With tens of thousands of people occupying the streets, squares, Citibanks, and other public places of America to demand economic human rights for all, the dedication of a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. seems like good timing—even if the memorial itself is kinda weird.

Insufferable talk radio blowhard Laura Ingraham graced Bill O'Reilly with her appearance on tonight's Factor for a chat about President Obama's speech at last night's post-shooting memorial in Tucson, Arizona. Her thoughts? It was a shameless "campaign rally." Watch inside.