JCPenney has unveiled a grand plan to stay afloat in a constantly-evolving retail market that has in recent years put brick-and-mortar companies out of business on the brink or out of business. As Americans’ spending trends have adjusted to the convenience of online shopping, the country’s once-strong department stores have...

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If President Joe Biden was Catholic -- as he professes to be  -- he would heed the words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 26:52, “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." If he were truly...

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This week marks the 17th anniversary of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's sudden and shocking death. The legendary Australian conservationist, educator and television personality died on September 4, 2006, from an injury sustained during the filming of one of his trademark wildlife documentaries. A short-tail stingray stung Irwin in the chest...

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A man who alleges he had sex with and used drugs with former President Barack Obama in 1999 will appear Wednesday night on Tucker Carlson’s show. The interview comes weeks after reports that focused on a letter from Obama to a former girlfriend in which he wrote about fantasies of...

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They were siblings with a bond that included a diagnosis of disease at around the same time, and Laurie Buffett McGuane cannot yet believe her big brother Jimmy was the first to go. The “Come Monday” singer died Friday at 76. He had been diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a...

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Donald Trump may be one of the biggest politicians on the scene, with some of the most virulent supporters of any of them, yet even he has had trouble keeping his Twitter-like Truth Social in the black. But a new vote among shareholders has handed Trump's social media company a...

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The public interest group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections declared it had secured a "massive win" for election integrity following a Friday Arizona court ruling in its favor. In March, RITE sued Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes arguing his office's Elections Procedures Manual violates the law regarding...

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The Arizona state House is set to launch a probe into allegations of collusion between Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and social media giant X, formerly known as Twitter, amid a controversy surrounding her attempts to censor critics. This investigation comes on the heels of the release of emails from...

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The collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021 found President Joe Biden in a familiar spot: on vacation. According to a new book by journalist Franklin Foer, the vacationing Biden reacted to news of then-President Ashraf Ghani's flight from the Afghan capital of Kabul with characteristic self-control. "Biden exploded in frustration"...

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A new report says former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is laying the groundwork for helping Georgia prosecutors in their efforts to convict former President Donald Trump of racketeering and conspiracy charges related to Trump’s challenge of the 2020 election. Nineteen people, including Trump, were indicted in the...

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Vultures would leave more on the carcass than these people. It's not enough that they indicted the former president for questioning the results of a hard-fought election, now legal scholars are saying that former President Donald Trump didn't have the legal right to profit off his own mug shot because,...

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I recently streamed "Cocaine Bear" (at my wife's suggestion, if you can believe that) and, while I don't think I can in good conscience recommend the film, I have to admit that there were moments I found entertaining. And given that the film cost something like $30-$35 million to produce, according...

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Some of Elon Musk's new policies for the social media platform now known as X have critics fearing it will return to Twitter's censorious past, especially as the 2024 presidential election approaches. Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, is sounding the alarm...

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Mike Williams, a former NFL standout wide receiver and a man who was the runner-up for the Rookie of the Year award in 2010, has died at the age of 36. Jon Scott of Spectrum News in New York first reported Williams’ death on X, formerly known as Twitter, on...

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Joe Biden's dumpster-fire presidency continued its unbroken streak of epic blunders when the octogenarian inexplicably walked out in the middle of a Medal of Honor ceremony, leaving a decorated war hero bewildered and alone on the podium. On Tuesday, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor received the Medal of Honor --...

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President Joe Biden doesn't think his old boss knew how to swear. According to "The Last Politician," a new book by Franklin Foer, "Biden told a friend that Obama didn't know how to say f*** you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants,"...

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul questioned the medical opinion of a doctor who evaluated Senate Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell this past week and concluded his recent episodes of freezing up in public are simply the lingering effects of a concussion. McConnell first froze up in July while addressing reporters in Washington:...

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For those of you with memories that don't reach back 11 years -- I'm talking to you, President Biden -- let me remind you of the heady days of 2012, when President Barack Obama was running for a second term and New Jersey, then led by GOP Gov. Chris Christie,...

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Days after he was hired as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" in 2019, Shane Gillis was unceremoniously fired because it was found he had once made a racially insensitive comment in a YouTube video and didn't grovel enough. (As if there's ever enough groveling.) Now, Gillis is working...

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If boycotters of Bud Light needed a new reason to maintain their campaign against the beer, it appears that they have one after it was revealed that uber-leftist and nanny state advocate Bill Gates has doled out a whopping $1.7 million to buy up stock of Bud Light's parent company,...

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