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Dan Aykroyd will forever be known as a “Ghostbuster.” The “Saturday Night Live” alum created plenty of memorable characters during his sketch TV days, but the 1984 sci-fi comedy remains his calling card for many. Some insist his 1980 film “The Blues Brothers” remains his finest hour as a comic actor. The musical comedy featured bravura performances from Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles and more. The film cemented Aykroyd’s on-screen bromance with fellow “SNL” standout John Belushi and became a cult classic. Aykroyd told podcaster Adam Carolla some behind-the-scenes footnotes from the film.

Israeli experts on rape and sexual abuse have documented Hamas's sex crimes during its Oct. 7 attack and denounce the world's silence.. Experts in the fight against rape and sexual abuse demanded to know why international women's organizations have remained silent about the horrific sex crimes Hamas committed in Israel on Oct. 7... And there's no doubt that they did: the experts, all women, who spoke on Nov. 12 in an online seminar organized by Jewish professional students at Harvard University, have been systematically gathering evidence since the attack. The one who headed up that effort spoke about the unspeakable....

Court cases in Colorado and Minnesota kick off this week as globalists attempt to kick Donald J. Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot, sighting the 14th Amendment as reasoning. The 14th Amendment allows for candidates to be removed from the ballot for “engaging in an insurrection against the United States.” Trump is not facing any insurrection-related charges and obviously has not been found guilty by a jury of his peers on insurrection-related charges. Despite this critical detail, globalists’ efforts to remove Trump from the ballot are expected to make it to the United States Supreme Court. Loomer called out the...

At a glittering fundraiser in downtown San Francisco Tuesday night, Biden began his speech by thanking Mayor Breed for “welcoming us to your city. It kind of sparkles right now.” A mixture of resentment that everyone underestimates him and cockiness about his prospects, Biden’s remarks foreshadowed his campaign pitch for 2024. He began by boasting about the “incredible night” Democrats had at the polls last week, “despite all the predictions, except ours.” “The American people voted to protect our fundamental freedoms like the right to choose, they voted to protect our democracy, they voted against extremism of our opponents, and...

The Marxist Origin of Wokism: The Hideous Face of RevolutionI am picking up a subject about which I have already written in an article entitled “Wokism: The New Pagan Morality.”[1] We now live in an increasingly post-Christian society. Interestingly, 56% of American voters deemed the term “woke” to be positive, associated with being informed and educated, while just 39% deemed it negative, likening it to censorship and being overly politically correct.[2] In his book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Left Conquered Everything,[3] Christopher Rufo traces the origins of CRT/Wokism, showing how America has been quietly taken over by the ideological...

Something to keep in mind - The attacks on Biden from the Democrat Establishment coincide with the ascent of Gavin Newsom. How could the DNC avoid a messy primary and nominate their preferred candidate (Newsom)? It’s in the fine print. Biden is increasingly frail and confused, his dementia is worsening and his economic plan is faltering. His popularity continues to crumble even among Democrats. Consider the possibility that he resigns after receiving the Presidential nomination at the DNC 2024 convention. Why that specific timing? Because – Rules adopted by the Democratic National Committee in 2022 leave the DNC as the...

Under Biden’s Reign of Error (or green economic transformation), the US has seen over 8 million illegal immigrants enter the US which is a far greater number than births in the US. In other words, Americans apparently are NOT being born under a bad sign. Hence, the US is seeing the demand for housing increase. But …. housing start were DOWN -4.2% YoY in October. Housing Starts: Privately‐owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,372, the October 2022 rate of 1,432,000. Single‐family housing starts in October were at a rate of 970,000; this is...

Attorney Tom Renz leveled serious allegations against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a fiery testimony Monday during the “Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines” hearing, claiming their deep involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic.He said, “When someone got this [COVID] shot. They didn’t get it from Pfizer or Moderna. They got it from the DoD. The DoD distributed this. The contract with our federal government requires it to distribute this; the DoD had to ensure that there was absolute immunity. If you want to sue someone right now, you’re going to have to sue...

A collective of Black farmers in West Sacramento, California, is sowing seeds for a sustainable tomorrow with its a recent $1.25 million grant.

The successor of sitting Russian President Vladimir Putin will be very similar to him politically, the Kremlin suggests. -snip- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a university student-run channel operated by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations that Putin's eventual successor will be "the same. Or different, but the same," according to the Moscow Times. -snip- Peskov told news outlets in October that there is no competition against Putin ahead of the next presidential election next year. "We have repeatedly said that President Putin is undoubtedly the number-one politician and statesman in our country," said Peskov. "In my personal opinion...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rebuked House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republicans who seem to "hate" American values.Video has surfaced of the Louisiana Republican taking part in a prayer call early last month with far-right Pastor Jim Garlow with the World Prayer Network, and the "Morning Joe" host was troubled that Johnson suggested the nation deserved God's wrath for its "dark and depraved" culture.

17 November 2023 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious on Friday of week 32 in Ordinary Time St Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Cleveland Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingWisdom 13:1-9 ©How have those who investigated the world been so slow to find its Master?Naturally stupid are all men who have not known Godand who, from the good things that are seen, have not been able to discover Him-who-is,or, by studying the works, have failed to recognise the Artificer.Fire however, or wind, or the swift...

President Biden appeared confused as he took the stage with other world leaders at APEC Thursday — after botching the name of the venue and refusing to mention a US corporation for fear of mispronouncing it. Video shared widely online showed the oldest-ever US president picking at his nose and looking around confused as he takes his spot for a photo op at the San Francisco-based conference.

In the wake of Hamas's October 7 terror attack on Israeli civilians, with its mass rapes, murders, kidnappings, and other atrocities, it would seem pretty natural to think that the "ordinary" Palestinians would turn against Hamas, which is as evil an organization as ISIS. Hamas members even admit it.Bzzt! Wrong.The specter of Jewish bloodshed seems to have strengthened their support for Hamas.According to the Elder of Ziyon blog:A new poll from AWRAD, Arab World for Research and Development, shows that the vast majority of Palestinians support the October 7 pogrom. 75% of all Palestinians supported the massacre while only 12.7%...

Will the Deep State allow America First to win the presidential election? Do you see me? We haven’t met yet, but we will. With all of the recent tyrannical, institutional captures in America as a result of the unfair abuse of my dear friend Election ’20, I am deeply concerned. What if limited government and foundational principles like freedom, individualism, self-reliance, meritocracy, and the capacity for upward development are thwarted with callous and unsympathetic tyranny by an administration that cares more for its growth of power than the needs of its citizens? What is Plan B? As it stands today,...

Russia’s agriculture minister says Moscow has begun free shipments of grain totalling up to 200,000 tonnes to six African countries, as promised by President Vladimir Putin. In a statement posted on Telegram on Friday, Dmitry Patrushev said that ships headed for Burkina Faso and Somalia had already left Russian ports, and that additional shipments to Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Mali and Central African Republic would soon follow.

Representative Mark Green, a congressman from Tennessee and the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee recently released a new report, and the data is a sobering reminder that Replacement Theory was a “conspiracy theory” until it wasn’t.Just a few weeks back, The New York Times published an article by Eileen Sullivan in which she noted that crossings at the southern border are “higher than ever”… and climbing. As Sullivan also wrote:Migrants were caught crossing the southern border of the United States more times in the past year than in any other year since at least 1960, when the government started...

A long-standing lawsuit over the reliability and security of Georgia’s elections system will go to trial in January. The case was filed by voters who want hand-marked paper ballots to replace the existing system of machines sold to the state by Dominion Voting Systems, although as noted by the Associated Press, it began three years before the allegations over Dominion’s machines that became part of the contentious aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. On Nov. 10, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a ruling rejecting the state’s position that no trial was necessary. The ruling called for the state and...

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior Political Data Reporter Harry Enten said that inflation and population-adjusted disposable personal income has declined over the past quarter and since the first year of the Biden administration and “there is this disconnect. But I don’t think there’s this disconnect between Americans and what’s actually going on. I think there might be this disconnect between what President Biden thinks is going on and what is actually going on.” Host Erin Burnett began the segment by saying that President Biden admitted that “Americans are not feeling the positive effects of an economy that...

Palm Beach County, Florida School Superintendent Mike Burke has placed pro-Palestinian teacher Layann Alhunaidi on administrative leave pending the completion of an investigation into her social media posts advocating for the elimination of the State of Israel. "The School District is looking into this matter thoroughly to determine if any rule, law, or policy violations occurred. Ms. Alhunaidai has been placed on administrative leave pending the completion of the investigative process. ~Michael J. Burke"