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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Every story of this kind should begin with the same question. Otherwise, one misses the fundamental point. Specifically, if we could create a public education system from scratch, would it look anything like the one we have? If the answer is "no" -- and it should be "no" -- then...

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Trust is an incredibly fickle thing. When you have it, it's as good as an unlimited credit card with zero interest. You can rack up all sorts of societal debt on that sucker, should you truly have ironclad trust. But once you lose it? It's almost impossible to get it...

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There are few -- if any -- modern American politicians who are more contemptible than former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The longtime (long time), 84-year-old California representative is perhaps the textbook example of what a slimy, meddlesome, corrupt, greedy, power-hungry despot masquerading as a career politician looks like. To...

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Under President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, this legislation should prove redundant. Nonetheless, congressional Republicans must force their Democratic colleagues to vote on it. According to Fox News, on Tuesday the House of Representatives will make the Laken Riley Act its first legislative priority. On Feb. 22, 2024, Venezuelan illegal immigrant...

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President Joe Biden's pardons and commutations have already made his lame-duck transitional period notorious. Now, in what The New York Times described as a "secret operation" early Monday, he's nearly halved the population of the country's most notorious prison for terrorists and terrorism suspects. He sent Guantanamo Bay prisoners back...

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Fresh off of raising hackles and generating headlines by referring to Canada as the 51st state, President-elect Donald Trump turned his attention southward Tuesday towards a body of water with a troubling name. Trump’s latest idea to re-shape North America came during a news conference, as he was discussing issues...

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The bodies of two dead people were found Monday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport overnight. The corpses were found in the wheel well of a JetBlue Airways plane, according to CBS. The discovery came after a routine inspection of the plane. On Monday, the plane flew to Florida from...

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A small contingent traveling on Trump Force One, including Donald Trump Jr., was greeted warmly by MAGA hat-wearing supporters in Greenland on Tuesday after landing in the capital of Nuuk. The trip came as President-elect Donald Trump continues his push to acquire the Danish territory off the northeast coast of...

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President-elect Donald Trump has achieved more for Americans in two months than President Joe Biden did in four years. Given the president-elect's remarkable energy, negotiating skills, and love of country, expect those achievements to multiply between now and 2029. At a news conference on Tuesday from his Mar-a-Lago home in...

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The non-handshake heard round the world might have amounted to a politically-motivated snub. Or, the elderly man who refused the handshake might have had any number of non-political reasons for doing so. Either way, those who make it their business to draw conclusions based on insufficient information have once again...

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Justice Department officials submitted a new court filing on Monday alleging that New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams was involved in criminal behavior that extends beyond their initial indictment made last fall. The motion said that prosecutors have new evidence, but did not explicitly indicate what that information revealed,...

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