The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may have run out of bullets to fire at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego and its 29-foot Latin cross. High atop a mountain just north of downtown, the cross has driven the ACLU bonkers for years. The Mount Soledad Memorial Association announced Monday that it bought the half-acre of federal land on which the monument stands from the Defense Department for $1.4 million. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 included a provision calling for the sale. The ACLU has filed lawsuits on behalf of the Jewish War Veterans alleging that the lofty monument erected in 1954 and dedicated to Korean War veterans in 1989 was an unconstitutional violation of the doctrine of separation of church and state. They find it particularly annoying that the cross is highly visible above heavily traveled Interstate 5.  City officials might want to consider adding pullover areas for ACLU’s atheist lawyers and acutely sensitive...(Read Full Article)