There's a moment during Patrick Swayze's 1989 movie "Road House" -- thought by many, including this writer, to be the height of unintentionally funny cinema -- where you realize you're watching one of the most hilariously fatuous things ever put to film. In it, Swayze's character, a highly paid, philosophically...

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Legal skirmishing that is taking place before Hunter Biden’s upcoming tax trial indicates that Hunter Biden received money from a Romanian businessman who was trying to become a player in American policy-making. A filing from the office of special counsel David Weiss’s office said the individual also hoped Hunter Biden would...

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President Joe Biden perhaps experienced a Freudian slip when questioned about whether he thought there would be a peaceful transfer to the next administration. "Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025?" CBS News correspondent Robert Costa asked. "If Trump wins, no I'm...

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Three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna have been canceled amid fears of a terror attack in support of the Islamic State. “With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” the...

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Days after Serena Williams blew her top on social media because a Paris hotel refused to recognize her importance by giving her a restaurant table on demand, a worker at the hotel said the staff she dealt with did not even recognize her at all. "Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied...

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Woke secularists regularly foment identity-based hatred and strife, only to turn around and re-brand those evils as love and inclusion. Thus, one rejoices at the sight of Christian athletes from different countries showing the world what love and inclusion really means, especially when the scene occurs at the otherwise woke...

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In a concession speech which I suppose was meant to convince Missouri voters they'd made the wrong choice, defeated "squad" member Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri said that her defeat merely "takes some strings off" the unhinged Democrat and that she's "coming to tear" the "kingdom" of pro-Israel groups down....

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Why did this ever sound like a good idea? Boeing, the company responsible for making flyers around the world nervous again, was awarded a contract for a crew capsule to send astronauts to the International Space Station. According to Ars Technica, Boeing's Starliner ended up costing at least twice as...

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The 2024 Paris Olympics continues to spark controversy for its treatment of the Christian world. After a brazen and insulting opening ceremony mocking Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" with drag queens and unashamed nudity, French authorities are now taking it upon themselves to arrest anyone who dares protest this display....

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On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris's newly tapped running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, turned some heads with a joke about Sen. J.D. Vance. "I gotta tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy. That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up," Walz said...

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An American woman was found emaciated and chained to a tree in an Indian forest, but the unsettling discovery took an unexpected turn as the situation developed. The woman was identified as Lalita Kayi, a 50-year-old United States citizen from Massachusetts. The incident began when a cowherder in the Sindhudurg...

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The alluring simplicity of single-factor explanations always threatens to tempt us into overstatement. But in this case we cannot deny the correlation between cause and effect. On Tuesday, U.S. News & World Report ranked Nassau County, New York, the safest community in America. In related news, Nassau boasts a Republican...

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Imagine spending $30,000 to travel to another country for a horse race only to get sick, receive little medical attention, then find yourself alone trying to get back home. That's the ordeal Dede Anders went through in her pursuit of competing in the 620-mile Mongol Derby in Mongolia. The Mongol...

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Traditional conservatives must have conflicted feelings about the current state of President Joe Biden's moribund administration. After all, given the choice between inactivity and aggressive implementation of Biden's agenda, what sane person would choose the latter? Thursday on the social media platform X, the president's laughable weekly schedule went viral...

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Elected Democrats have grown so accustomed to lying with impunity that they probably think nothing of it. Fortunately, for Republicans and conservatives, they seem to have blundered into one of the few remaining lies that Americans will not tolerate. On Wednesday, Army Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, the Minnesota National Guard’s...

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An unusual filing by Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be an attempt to further take over the campaign of Democrats' former 2024 ballot header, President Joe Biden. In another twist, the unprecedented move seems to have resulted in the FEC recognizing two presidential candidates named "Kamala Harris." Whoops? The...

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Star athletes often face relentless scrutiny, especially if they happen to exhibit a degree of eccentricity. History has shown, however, that sports fans will forgive or even embrace the eccentricity provided the star athlete performs. In a brief viral clip that NFL reporter Dov Kleiman posted Wednesday to the social...

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Frustrating moments were ticking away at a Butler, Pennsylvania, venue on July 13 as local police hunted for a suspect deemed a potential threat to former President Donald Trump. As authorities hurried and scurried to find a man who had been loosely on their radar for more than an hour...

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A San Antonio man is facing charges after allegedly setting explosive traps in car wash toilets, causing injury to multiple victims who attempted to use the rigged facilities. Paul Moses Alden, 46, was arrested August 2 as the result of a police investigation covering several incidents. He now stands charged...

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Score a win for free speech thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk's X, Rumble and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee among others. Business Insider reported Thursday that the advertising trade group The World Federation of Advertisers told its member that it would be discontinuing its Global Alliance for Responsible...

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