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In her first-ever Super Bowl ad, country icon Dolly Parton has partnered with website company Squarespace to champion the millions of Americans working hard to unlock their economic freedom through a side hustle. Unfortunately, Parton’s embrace of the all-American entrepreneurial spirit has made her a target of left wing commentary sites and angry bluecheck liberals on Twitter. Instead of celebrating side gigs for allowing Americans to pursue economic freedom on their own terms, the left wants to destroy side hustles and force all Americans to have a boss. The Super Bowl ad updates Parton’s classic smash hit “9 to 5”...

Former President Donald Trump‘s defense at his Senate impeachment trial next week will include videos of Democrats encouraging violence, one of his lawyers said Friday. The clips would counter videos that Democrats likely will show of the riot at Capitol and Mr. Trump‘s fiery speech at a rally shortly before the attack on Jan. 6, which Mr. Trump stands accused of inciting. Trump lawyer Bruce Castor told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham “you can count on that” when asked about using video montage of Democratic members of Congress calling for violence against Trump administration officials and law enforcement.

USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour wrote a column demanding to know why Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady hasn't been kicked out of the National Football League. "Brady admits Trump is a friend of his," Armour pointed out. "He probably even voted for Trump. Now that Trump is under indictment for inciting his supporters to seize control of the government. Why is Brady still a free man? Clearly he is among the 75 million people President Biden has designated as domestic terrorists. What does it say about us as a nation that Brady is permitted to play in the most...

Julie Andrews is remembering her former costar Christopher Plummer after his death on Friday. He was 91. The Oscar winner mourned Plummer in a statement to PEOPLE, reminiscing on their time together filming the 1965 classic The Sound of Music. "The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend. I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humor and fun we shared through the years. My heart and condolences go out to his lovely wife Elaine, and his daughter Amanda," Andrews, 85, said. The two actors were linked throughout their career...

Greg Patton is a professor of clinical business communication at the University of Southern California. During a recent virtual classroom session, he was discussing public speaking patterns and the filler words that people use to space out their ideas: um, er, etc. Patton mentioned that the Chinese often use a word that is pronounced like nega.

Former President Barack Obama waxed whimsically in November about a third term. He chatted amiably with comedian...

Many of our fellow Americans live in areas where leftists have poisoned the school systems. TRADITIONAL TEACHER MODEL My primary model would have about twenty kids in a class and a tuition of around $3,500/year/student. Each teacher would set his/her tuition rate and maximum class size and handle student admission. Homeowner associations might host hook-up events for teachers, parents and prospective students. Tuition might be paid monthly for affordability and two months in advance (so it won't be problem for the teacher if the parents have a major car repair bill one month). Men and women who have good English...

Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans. It became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living mundane lives. It...

SpaceX announced plans to send everyday civilians to space as part of its Inspiration4 mission commanded by tech entrepreneur and pilot Jared Isaacman. Isaacman, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shrft4 Payments, is donating three seats on the Inspiration4 to travel along with him on a mission designed to raise awareness and support for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, according to a press release. ... The second seat represents the mission's "pillar of Generosity." Throughout February, the public can enter for a chance to secure a seat on the historic flight by donating $10 or more to support St. Jude's...

Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican member on the House Armed Services Committee, says Democrats were setting a precedent by expelling controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her assigned congressional committees. During an interview that aired Friday on Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5, Rogers explained there were plusses to Democrats spending time on Greene and impeachment. According to the Alabama GOP lawmaker, if Democrats continued to pursue Greene and former President Donald Trump, they were not passing legislation. “You just described why I’m not that unhappy about what they’re doing,” he said. “I hope this impeachment...

Judicial Watch Sues for Solyndra Records of Biden’s Chief of Staff Judicial Watch Continues Fight to Open Biden’s Hidden Senate Records Energy Department Leaves Nuclear Labs Vulnerable to Former Employees Mystery in Mena: The Death of a Patriot Judicial Watch Sues for Solyndra Records of Biden’s Chief of Staff Solyndra is one of the worst scandals of the Obama era – and Ron Klain , President Biden’s chief of staff, is right in the middle of it. The issue is fresh again given the new administration’s plans to fund more Solyndra-type companies with countless tax dollars. Solyndra is the...

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of many politicians who have adopted a mindset that says we should only care about victims of violence if we believe they are useful for our political narrative.New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is once again at the center of online debates, as left and right battle over an Instagram livestream where she described her experience during the latest riot at the U.S. Capitol by telling her audience, “I thought I was going to die.”There can be no doubt that the riot at the Capitol was a terrible event. More than 100 police officers...

The mainstream media has been hyper-focused on previously little-known House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after old videos surfaced of her allegedly promoting conspiracy theories. Few, however, have spent equal time and energy on her statement yesterday denouncing those past views and her 20 minute speech earlier today explaining more about who she is and why she is passionate about being an elected official. At the end of her speech, which covered a variety of topics, she warned Christians not to be lukewarm and to share the Gospel “with everyone.” You can see that full speech [At Link]:

Accountants along Colorado’s Front Range are telling CBS4 that dozens of clients who paid their 2019 taxes are nonetheless getting menacing letters from the IRS. Those letters are threatening late fees, penalties and in some cases, property seizure. “Well they’re frightened,” said Denver CPA William Fraser, “They don’t understand why the government, the IRS, would be chasing after them when they’ve paid their taxes.” Fraser said he has about 30 clients who paid their 2019 taxes but are still getting the intimidating letters from the feds. He says his clients are “frightened, angry, stressed, worried because the letters say they’re...

“Black Studies” professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University has denounced the Enlightenment as “little more than White identity politics” and “racist knowledge”.Andrews, who is Britain’s inaugural professor of “black studies”, made the comments on social media while sharing a link to an interview with the Times Higher Education Supplement discussing his upcoming book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.“The enlightenment was little more than White identity politics, yet its racist knowledge still underpins university education,” alleged Andrews, who has previously made waves by claiming that “the British Empire did far more harm...

The FBI is now a frightening entity that will harass and frame any American. If the FBI did its job it would have been all over the truckloads of suspicious activity uncovered in the 2020 election. Instead the FBI harassed the whistleblowers.Colonel Phil Waldron (at the 19:45 mark in the video below):I believe from what I’ve seen and the witnesses that I talked to, that this is a coup that definitely involved elements inside our own country, inside our own federal government – definitely part of a coup that was aided and abetted by a foreign threat nation state, a...

Some of the headlines in just the past few days indicate that the world has gone mad since Joe Biden* took office. So many executive orders, so many policy changes, so many calls for unity followed by demands against conservatives and Christians. It is almost like a hurricane of crazy. Those addicted to the next one-up on conspiracy theory fantasy can give up their delusions because the facts of what is going on right now politically are at least as outrageous as QAnon hope pornography. People, there is a crisis before our very eyes. One that is not made up...

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Must be nice to be a Democrat. You can shovel cash to family members, and no one investigates. According to federal filings, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) campaign paid her husband’s consulting firm $2.9 million during the 2020 election cycle. That’s 78% of the firm’s intake. The Washington Free Beacon reported: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D., Minn.) campaign payments to her husband’s firm accounted for nearly 80 percent of its cash haul during the 2020 elections, federal filings show. The E Street Group, a D.C. consulting firm owned by Tim Mynett, Omar’s husband, and his partner Will Hailer, received $3.7 million from...

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