At least this much can be said about President Joe Biden's final months in office: His generosity with his pen and his phone, at least as it relates to clemency and pardons, has extended far beyond his son, Hunter. On Thursday, Biden set a single-day record for acts of clemency...

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The Joe Biden White House wants Americans to believe John Kirby over their own lying eyes. Americans looking for answers about a flurry of continuous, unexplained aerial activity over New Jersey didn't get a lot of help from the White House National Security communications adviser on Thursday, when Kirby used...

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A contingent of the rebel force that recently took power in Syria has destroyed the tomb of the founder of the Assad ruling family. According to the BBC, the tomb of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad -- whose son, Bashar al-Assad, fled the country to Russia after rebels overran his...

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The coefficient of friction measures slickness. The lower the COF, the more slippery the object. Nearly 25 years after leaving office, former President Bill Clinton's COF remains as low as ever. Wednesday on ABC's "The View," the former president showcased his trademark slickness when, first, he insisted that his wife,...

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Football obviously is not war. But there is a certain level of camaraderie and self-sacrifice needed to succeed in either. And according to his own teammates, (soon-to-be former?) San Francisco 49ers linebacker De'Vondre Campbell is not someone they'd want in a foxhole after what happened Thursday night. The Niners already had a...

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Conservative commentator Scott Jennings of CNN had it right: 22-year-old WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark probably does not know any better. If she does, then shame on her. "I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege," Clark said in a recent interview...

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An international gathering has turned into a harrowing situation for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. Details were scarce, but a Pelosi representative put out a statement confirming that she had been hospitalized while in Luxembourg on official state business. Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman shared the statement on X: PELOSI is...

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The tremors and aftershock of President-elect Donald Trump's Election Day victory are still reverberating through the Democratic Party over a month after the fact. And it's starting to get ugly, according to Axios. The combatants? New York Rep. and progressive "squad" member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in one corner, while Democrat...

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Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon simply could not fathom news of President-elect Donald Trump becoming Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." On Thursday's episode of "The Don Lemon Show" posted to his YouTube channel, Lemon displayed the Time cover picturing Trump while lashing out at the magazine's choice in a tirade....

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The picturesque sight of snow blanketing a Maine town became something far less attractive. On Tuesday, residents of Rumford found that instead of fluffy white stuff covering yards and fields, they looked upon brown snow, according to WJW-TV The town posted an explanation on Facebook, saying the local paper mill...

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Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler apparently has issued a monetary settlement demand on billionaire Elon Musk, threatening charges if he does not comply. Musk posted a letter Thursday stating the charges that would be brought by Chairman Gary Gensler's SEC date back to the businessman's 2022 purchase...

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Kids say the darnedest things, though sometimes they hear those things first from adults. For instance, when a child corrects an adult's woke nonsense, we may speculate that another adult in that child's life probably has done something similar. During a "Toys for Tots" event Friday at the White House,...

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Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006, confessed that she lied and asked for the men's forgiveness. Mangum made the admission to podcast host Katerena DePasquale in an interview published on Thursday. DePasquale conducted the sit-down at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for...

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A Canadian mayor is facing the consequences for refusing to bow at the "pride" altar. The Toronto Sun reported Saturday that Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker was fined $5,000 by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario for comments made in 2020 opposing a request for the town council to declare...

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Daniel Penny has accepted an invitation from fellow Marine Corps veteran and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance to attend Saturday's Army-Navy game taking place in Maryland. A New York jury found Penny not guilty on Monday of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway....

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A former governor of Maryland has lambasted the federal government’s state of denial over reports of drones hovering in the skies of several states. Since mid-November, New Jersey residents have complained that frequent recurring drone activity had invaded their peace of mind. Connecticut residents have also said they are spooked...

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As drones buzz above the East Coast with no real explanation of where they're coming from, there's more alarming news out of President Joe Biden's outgoing administration: They can't really do anything about them. In an interview on CNN Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that no...

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Mayor Michael Melham ordered first responders to wear HAZMAT suits and to call the bomb squad should one of the mysterious drones drop from the New Jersey sky. Since the week before Thanksgiving, residents across several New Jersey counties have reported sightings of mysterious large drones hovering in the night,...

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Full disclosure: I didn't make it past the first round of my third-grade spelling bee. Oh, sure, I had my revenge. I was school champion of the sixth-grade geography bee and got knocked out at the state level -- but being the competitive type, not making it to the school...

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The man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a customer of the mammoth insurance company. UnitedHealth Group issued a statement saying Luigi Mangione, 26, was never insured by the company, said, according to NBC. New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that a review...

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Maybe the executives at Google should have done a search on "Bud Light" before introducing its new Christmas advertisement. Alas, marketing executives in Big Tech are still as dense as Alyssa "Fratty" Heinerscheid, the genius behind the Dylan Mulvaney marketing campaign that managed to shed massive amounts of market share...

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