Reviews from director Greta Gerwig’s live-action “Barbie” film are starting to come in, but unlike the doll that American girls have played with since 1959, they are anything but glowing. I refused to take my daughter to see the film with a good, old-fashioned father’s “Maybe next week,” which is...

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After more than three decades in the music business, the leftist punk band Anti-Flag has broken up without offering any explanation. On Thursday, the music site Pitchfork noted that the "stalwart political punk band" announced it was dissolving only a day before a scheduled concert in Prague. "Anti-Flag has disbanded,"...

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Irony, thy name is... a gas-powered leaf blower. Environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil once again tried to hijack a marquee event and make it about themselves and, as is often the case, it backfired. Or, more accurately, it was blown away, leaving nary a trace that the...

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Emails made public as part of a lawsuit by the Virgin Islands against JP Morgan Chase are undercutting a claim from Prince Andrew that he only saw convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein once after Epstein’s conviction. In 2019, Andrew told a BBC interviewer on the show "Newsnight"...

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As sports quickly enters a rather dead time in the year (three of the four major North American pro sports have nothing going on, and the third is smack dab in the middle of a 162-game season), it doesn't take much to capture national sports headlines. Despite that, history suggests that...

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Good ol' paper ballots and required official voter identification might be the only way to restore confidence in U.S. elections. Doubt concerning election integrity has spread like a disease from sea to shining sea. The devil thrives on doubt. Doubt may be why Texas has decided to opt out of...

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Disney had great hopes that its latest Indiana Jones action flick would be just the ticket for summer moviegoers. Not only has that hope faded as the film fails to draw fans, but the movie is now at the center of a lawsuit. Before it even hit theaters, "Indiana Jones...

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Former President Donald Trump reacted Thursday to suggestions that he should choose long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. During a phone conversation with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt, Trump was asked about what impact a Kennedy third-party run might have on the election. “I don’t know,...

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A new report says Fox News is offering to match employee donations to groups and causes that are not aligned with its mostly conservative audience. Some of those donations are to groups that fundamentally oppose Christians and conservatives. The network that people who are mostly right of center have called...

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Country star Jason Aldean's fans aren't going anywhere. The singer has been immersed in controversy since he released the music video for his song "Try That in a Small Town." The video features news footage of rioters attacking police and burning the American flag. Critics accused it of being racist...

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A Christian high school coach is suing the Vermont school district that fired him after he spoke to several students about the competitive advantage that male athletes claiming to be female have over female athletes, he alleges in his lawsuit. David Bloch, who has been a coach for the snowboarding...

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So much for equality. On Tuesday, independent journalist Jordan Schachtel, who publishes The Dossier on Substack, reported a newly-available Department of Defense memo that outlines astonishing special treatment for service members who identify as transgender. The memo, dated February 1, 2023, originated with the Womack Army Medical Center in Fort...

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An innocent reference to Jesus never made it into a hit children's show. In a June interview with The Hollywood Reporter, "Bluey" creator Joe Brumm revealed that he planned to mention Jesus in one of the show's episodes, only to encounter resistance from major networks. "It wasn't proselytizing, it wasn't...

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If there were three things Earvin "Magic" Johnson was most known for while on the "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers, they were the following: Championships. Elite passing. Infectious positivity. If there is any fan base in pro football that needs a jolt of all three of those things almost as much as it...

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Scripture never suggests that civil government is the curing institution for poverty. And, closely related, Scripture does not support the idea of governments taking from the rich to meet the needs of the poor. That’s right, my friend. The responsibility to provide a societal safety net falls to God’s other...

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Ah, the romance of wild horses still roaming the American West, totally free, entrancing all who see them. Not quite. One person’s majestic vision is another’s economic threat. But no matter where one falls on the controversial issue of wild horses, there’s got to be a better way to handle...

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James Gordon Meek, a former ABC News producer and five-time Emmy nominee as a reporter, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on Friday morning in a federal courtroom in Virginia. The Department of Justice announced in a news release that Meek, 53, had pleaded guilty to the transportation and...

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I am very worried about the future of our nation as my generation hands the mantle of leadership over to younger people who have not learned true American history in school, and thus are not adequately prepared to fight off existential threats both foreign and domestic. So, here is my...

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A federal judge on Tuesday said he doubts that the Department of Homeland Security is serious about tracking illegal immigrants allowed to go where they please under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy. In May, U.S. District Judge Kent Wetherell of Florida's Northern District slapped a temporary restraining order on the...

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As swaths of horrified Americans watched their fellow citizens loot, burn and raze businesses following the death of George Floyd in 2020, many were likely wondering what justice -- if any -- would eventually be meted out. The "justice" that New York City ultimately decided on probably isn't what most...

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Normally, when musicians squabble, it's over copyright claims or ownership rights. But this particular fight? It actually involved a pair of musicians bickering over a song that isn't either of theirs. Guitarist Jason Isbell and country singer Jake Owen got into a heated exchange over Jason Aldean's polarizing song "Try...

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