Back in the old days, in a class discussion in sixth grade, I remember receiving a compliment from my teacher: “That’s very discriminating -- excellent discernment, Rita!” As usual back then, I squirmed, wanting to hide under my desk, torn between pride and embarrassment. The teacher was smiling -- so...

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Well, we're certainly giving "Noble Prize" a run for our money at the White House, aren't we? Just a little over two weeks after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre embarrassed herself at a media briefing by repeatedly mispronouncing the name of an award won by her former boss, Barack...

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I'm not quite sure if there was ever an appropriate time for a drag show at the White House, but December of 2022 definitely wasn't that time. In fact, during the monologue to his Tuesday show, Tucker Carlson laid out why it wasn't that time. While the veteran of cable...

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Having been arrested the previous day in the Bahamas, the star of the show, Sam Bankman-Fried, was unable to attend Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing on the stunning collapse of FTX. But as they say, the show, presided over by the petulant and uber ennoscriptd committee chair, Rep. Maxine Waters, went...

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Does America really want to re-elect a grumpy old man as president? That's an honest question. I was surprised that enough Americans voted for candidate Joe Biden in 2020 to make him the Democratic nominee, never mind how many came out to vote for him in the general election. Yes,...

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The White House became an LGBT symbol Tuesday night when it was lit with rainbow colors after President Joe Biden signed the "Respect for Marriage Act." The bill requires that marriages that are valid under the laws of any one state be recognized as such by every other state, according...

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Satan needs better PR men. After all, the role of the prince of darkness is supposed to be to seduce the human heart into committing evil. I understand this is a TL;DR version and skips over a whole lot of questions about free will, predestination, compatibilism and all that, but...

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Evelyn MacPherson’s hometown can no longer be her home. Although the mother of seven has roots that run deep in Portland, Oregon, she is moving now that drugs have invaded the tiny space of her garden. “I don’t feel good about raising my kids here anymore,” MacPherson said, according to...

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Six people, including two police officers, were shot and killed during a harrowing six-hour standoff in Australia this week in a shocking incident spotlighting that strict gun control laws do not stop gun crimes. The tragedy unfolded on Monday when four officers arrived at a home in Wieambilla, a rural...

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A hunch coupled with dedication to keep looking for anything that can help solve Idaho’s quadruple murders -- and a lot of graveyard shift down time -- may have produced a lead for police. It has been just over a month since University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen,...

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Republican Kari Lake on Tuesday issued what she called a “critical update on the fight to save our state” as a judge held a brief hearing on her lawsuit seeking to overturn the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs as Arizona’s next governor. “My legal team has been working non-stop investigating...

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Former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth has left his home, according to a new report. CNN reported Monday that, based on information from a source it did not name, Roth had gone into some level of hiding after threats emerged due to what CNN called “Elon Musk’s...

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There was one good thing about when Twitter operated with extreme leftist bias: It encouraged radical activists to show who they truly are, with no fear of censorship, real criticism or even disapproval. Those extremist statements are documented on the internet, easy to find with a little bit of digging...

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While the Philadelphia Eagles were busy giving the New York Giants a pounding on Sunday, former President Bill Clinton apparently wasn't too impressed with the action on the field. Clinton was caught on camera snoozing in a suite at the game, according to Outsider. Bill Clinton was at the Eagles/Giants...

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On Election Day, Maricopa County, Arizona, found itself at the center of the national conversation thanks to a number of malfunctioning election machines, incredibly long lines and other issues. The county is the most populous by far in a state where Democrat Katie Hobbs won the gubernatorial challenge by a...

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A Fox Sports segment turned into an explosive, personal dispute between Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless on Monday. The two football analysts were discussing Tom Brady's football legacy, according to the New York Post. "He's still playing at a high level at 45 when you had to stop at 35,"...

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No parent likes to see his or her child suffering, whether it's from a skinned knee or something much worse -- but not knowing what they are suffering from and being helpless to make them feel better is a special kind of torment. Pippa Daspit is a bright, musically talented...

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Elon Musk has gone from dominating the news cycle to becoming it. If part of Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter was to keep his name (and, by association, his personal and professional brands) in a non-stop news loop, we can already declare his ownership a success. But Musk’s stewardship of...

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A Florida police officer faced a life-threatening emergency Tuesday after what began as a routine traffic stop turned deadly due to the presence of the drug fentanyl on a dollar bill. Tavares police officer Courtney Bannick was stricken in an incident recorded on fellow officers’ bodycams. Although the video shows...

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No matter how much Democrats and the Biden administration might be hoping for it, the Tara Reade story isn’t going away. The woman who served as an aide in Biden’s Senate office in the early 1990s caused a crisis in then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign when she went public with the...

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