We all choose whether to bear our particular crosses with bitter resentment or with dignity and Christian charity. Actor Geoffrey Owens, who played Elvin Tibideaux on the iconic 1980s sitcom "The Cosby Show," has chosen the latter. In an interview last month on Atlanta's V-103 radio, Owens explained that unflattering...

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Full disclosure: I am fairly new to being a man of faith. I've only been baptized for about a year. And yet, even I know that few sins -- if any -- are worse than blaspheming. Incumbent President Joe Biden has ostensibly been a Catholic for some time now (though...

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Everything appears to be turning up Trump lately. That includes the White House, colleges, magazine covers, and even Silicon Valley. Yet another addition to that growing list? Both the big and small screens, so to speak. According to multiple reports, former-and-future first lady Melania Trump will be getting an "unprecedented"...

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On Monday Kamala Harris joined a unique club of vice presidents who have presided over certifying their own losses for the presidential race. The last time it happened was 2000 in the hotly contested race between Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Democrat Vice President Al Gore. Bush won...

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Do not get your hopes too high. After all, she did not exactly morph into a female version of Ricky Gervais. Nonetheless, modern Hollywood so rarely offers truth -- or even entertainment -- that the sudden combination of the two qualifies as newsworthy. Early in her opening monologue at Sunday's...

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Every senior member of President-elect Donald Trump's winning coalition brings something essential to the incoming administration. For instance, in an email interview with Mark Caputo of Axios published on Monday, incoming White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles laid out a no-nonsense vision of how she expects the new White...

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President-elect Donald Trump renewed his push to make Canada part of the United States following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement Monday that he will be resigning. "I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process," Truedeau...

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Items stolen from the home of actor Keanu Reeves in 2023 appear to have been recovered in Chile. Chilean police said three watches that were owned by Reeves, who stars as John Wick in a series of movies, have been recovered, according to CNN. The watches included a Rolex Submariner...

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A 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala has been arrested in Florida on allegations that he molested a 5-year-old girl. Nicolas Jose Francisco was charged by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office after the alleged victim was interviewed by the Department of Children and Families, according to WPEC. The suspect faces...

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On Monday, ABC's "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin tried to elevate the importance of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion to the extreme by claiming it was on par with World War II, the Holocaust, and slavery. Hostin led into her preposterous claim by taking a shot at former Secretary...

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President-elect Donald Trump vowed to reverse President Joe Biden’s Monday executive order banning oil and gas drilling in certain American coastal waters once he returns to office. The incoming commander-in-chief said in a Monday interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt that the move to ban drilling in 625 million acres...

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On Monday, ESPN host Stephen A. Smith accused the New England Patriots of considering race when firing head coach Jerod Mayo after just one season with the team. The sports journalist said that the firing of Mayo, who led the Patriots to finish 4-13 this season, was “about Mike Vrabel,”...

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Congress was sworn in on Jan. 6, so you know that the Democrats had a topic they were going to bang on about: Specifically, Sen. Deb Fischer's husband. Yeah, I know -- I didn't see that one coming, either. But apparently, the husband of the Nebraska GOP incumbent was called...

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Well, you can tentatively put another DEI notch on conservative activist Robby Starbuck's belt. Starbuck -- a filmmaker who has specialized in getting corporations to drop diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or scale them back greatly -- says he managed to pressure America's biggest fast-food chain, McDonald's, into announcing the...

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A woman is going viral in a most unfortunate way after she decided to vulgarly confront and punch a man in a road rage incident, only to get hit herself and slammed to the ground. Who was in the right and who was in the wrong will be for the...

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A former Fox News contributor has been picked to be the voice of America’s foreign policy. Tammy Bruce, a longtime Fox contributor, has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the State Department’s media representative, according to Politico. The pick does not require Senate confirmation. “Tammy Bruce has...

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A shocking new analysis from the government of the United Kingdom concluded that foreign nationals commit sex offenses at more than three times the rate of native British citizens. The government report examined over 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sex offenses in the first 10 months of 2024 conducted...

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Biden administration officials banned many new natural gas water heaters on Dec. 26 in a regulatory push weeks before President Joe Biden leaves office. The new regulations on non-condensing gas water heaters would “save a significant amount of energy” and yield “significant environmental benefits,” including decreasing carbon dioxide emissions, according...

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Donald Trump Jr. is going all in on the Second Amendment -- and doing it online. President-elect Donald Trump's eldest son has been a prominent part of his father's business and political operations for years -- an executive vice president in The Trump Organization, he is widely considered a major...

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In a legal gambit, two death row inmates are trying to avoid the commutation of their sentences by President Joe Biden. Last month, Biden sprinkled commutations on a number of federal inmates who had been sentenced to death. The commutations did not mean that the inmates involved were free, only...

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