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Legendary Hollywood gems like the “Wizard Of Oz” and the Christmas classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” are both getting what director and writer Kenya Barris is calling a “diverse” reboot. Speaking to Variety at the Sundance Film Festival, Barris confirmed he’s working on scripts for both films and giving the Judy Garland 1939 movie a new look with a story told from a “different point of a view.” “The original ‘Wizard of Oz’ took place during the Great Depression and it was about self-reliance and what people were going through,” Barris told the outlet. “I think this is the perfect...

Is there anything more disconcerting than being asked to sign a waiver before tucking into a hamburger? An American visitor to Toronto shocked hundreds of Reddit users last week by sharing that he was asked to sign a waiver when he ordered a medium-cooked hamburger at a Hilton hotel restaurant. “She brought it and it looked great! When I had my first bite she brought me a release form and said we always make our burgers well done, but since you wanted it medium … you should sign this.” The poster said that upon the special “medium” request, the waiter...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pushing back and adding more razor wire to the border fence after Monday's Supreme Court ruling that the border patrol can remove the wire along the southern border. So far, the border patrol in the borderland has not cut down any of the razor wire. In the meantime, Abbott says he won’t back down despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, and for now, plans to continue to secure the border however he wants to. “What Governor Abbott is doing is not just unconstitutional, and it’s not just harmful to very vulnerable...

pproximately 70% of New Hampshire primary voters who supported former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (R) were not registered Republicans, according to a Tuesday CNN exit poll. The poll revealed that only 27% of Haley voters were Republican, and another 3% were not registered with any party before the primary on Tuesday. Seven in ten of Haley's voters were "undeclared." In contrast, 70% of former President Donald Trump's (R) New Hampshire supporters were registered Republicans, and approximately 27% were undeclared. According to the New Hampshire Secretary of State, undeclared voters are allowed to vote in primary...

American scientists applied to engineer coronaviruses with remarkable similarities to SARS-CoV-2 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018, just one year before the pandemic’s outbreak, according to newly released internal documents. The 2018 grant proposal and related documents — obtained by the watchdog group U.S. Right to Know through a Freedom of Information request — reveal that an American virologist working with the Wuhan lab planned to engineer a virus that resembles SARS-CoV-2 as part of a U.S.-China research collaboration called “DEFUSE.” The research project was to be led by EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City-based research nonprofit that...

The “alleged” terrorist warning Americans “Soon you’ll know who I am” appears to be Movsum Samadov, a Muslim who was released in January 2023 after serving 12 years for being a terrorist. Will the democrats voters ever wake up to the invasion at the southern border? Right video credit to @78crystalfu

In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, DeSantis told Blaze TV’s Steve Deace that the blame is on Iowa caucusgoers who rallied behind front-runner Donald Trump even though many didn’t like him. “They did not want to see Trump nominated again, but they had basically been told that it was inevitable, that it was over,” DeSantis told Deace on Tuesday. DeSantis, who lost to Trump in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, added that those voters were “checked out” and had “just totally dropped out of the process.” The Florida governor told Deace he’d consider running...

Six questions every Democrat must answerThe Democrats have settled upon their 2024 campaign message: “Former President Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy and must be stopped. He has openly admitted he will become a dictator on day one.”Liberals make these statements about Trump and so-called MAGA Republican “extremists” because they know if they are repeated enough, they will stick. And they’re right. No evidence is required because the Democrats know they will never be called upon to support their claims by their comrades. When questioned by conservatives, however, they simply hold fast to their lies. Take, for example, Fox...

Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary last night of course and it's beyond 100% obvious that neocon Nikki Haley is working with the Marxist Democrats in order to try to undermine his candidacy.

Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. ThompsonAccording to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve:a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials,b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,”c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops,d) purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane,e) all of the above.In fact, if you selected any of those options in recent years, you’re probably already on a government watchlist.That’s how broadly the government’s net is being cast in its pursuit of...

All aboard the love boat! Details of the luxury cruises Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ allegedly took with special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been uncovered as part of his unsealed divorce documents. Credit card statements included in Wade’s divorce file from wife of 26 years, Joycelyn, show his spending over $6,000 on travel in October and November 2022. Lawyers for Joycelyn noted how Wade booked flights for himself, Willis, and his mother to Miami and on the same day paid over $2,500 to Royal Caribbean Cruises. [snip] Aboard ship Wade and Willis, if she was indeed with him, would have...

The New Jersey town of West Orange has banned gas-powered leaf blowers, joining two other towns in Essex County and hundreds of towns across the nation. The West Orange Township Council last week voted in favor of banning the tools in a 3-2 vote. The town will roll out with a partial ban that prohibits the use of gas leaf blowers during some winter and summer months, before moving to a full ban on January 1, 2026. Council members Bill Rutherford, Asmeret Ghebremicael and Susan Scarpa in favor of the ban, while Tammy Williams and Michelle Casalino voted against. Newsweek...

A new campaign ad for the Biden administration features a Texas obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN) making the now-familiar claim that she was denied a medically-necessary abortion because her pregnancy with a child with a “fatal condition” put her own “life at risk.” But is this true? But did she actually need to have her preborn child with a disability intentionally killed? The ad In the ad, Dr. Austin Dennard is featured. Dennard is an OB/GYN practicing in Dallas, and is the married mother of three living children, and called her family the joy of her life. “I never thought that I would...

New York City Council Member Vickie Paladino put Brooklyn’s wealthy liberals on blast for neglecting to demand that Democrat Mayor Eric Adams place a shelter for illegal border crossers in their neighborhood, and she has the perfect facility for such a venture. The 19th District councilwoman took to her X account on Monday to wonder why the wealthy leftists living in the city’s affluent Park Slope community seem to lack any migrant shelters, and she pointed to the neighborhood’s Park Slope Armory, which would be the perfect place for a temporary shelter. Above a photo of the facility, Paladino wrote:...

Rising interest rates, the remote work trend, and the dominance of e-commerce sellers have combined to hammer the commercial real estate market over the past few years. Sky-high office and retail space vacancies are plaguing owners in this new environment, rents are plummeting, and borrowing costs have soared. As a result, U.S. commercial real estate prices have fallen 11% since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in March 2022, the IMF reported last week, the worst decline in over 50 years. The outlook for the sector is now so bleak that Cantor Fitzgerald’s billionaire chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick...

And the left will still probably say that nobody wants to allow abortion throughout all nine months... An OBGYN student at the Medical College of Wisconsin testified at the Wisconsin state Capitol Monday, insisting that if she and her classmates cannot conduct abortions for women throughout all nine months of pregnancy, she will leave the state. Naturally, users online were stunned at how confidently she expressed killing full term babies. In a video which now has more than 200,000 views on X, the woman said, “I think abortion should be unrestrictive,” saying that regardless of when a woman “finds out”...

This is a broadcast clip on the 11 worst airports in America according to a Wall Street Journal survey. Here they are from worst to 11st worst:NewarkNew York JFKDallas-Ft. WorthOrlandoFt. LauderdaleNew York LaGuardiaMiamiSan Juan, Puerto RicoDenver and Charlotte (tied)11. Chicago ORD

Clapping for the loss of an innocent life isn’t a good look. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Waukesha County, Wisconsin to kick off a series of events she has planned to highlight abortion restrictions. During the event, Harris asked the audience to applaud the so-called “courage” one couple had to kill their child in the womb. “In a state whose motto is, 'Forward,' these extremists are trying to take us backward — but we're not having that,” Harris said at the first stop of her “Reproductive Freedom” tour. At the event she also took the opportunity to...

Joe Biden headlined a pro-abortion rally today and promised he would sign legislation to kill babies in abortions up to birth if Democrats win complete control of Congress this November. “Give me a Democratic House of Representatives and give me a bigger, bigger Democratic Senate where we will pass a new law restoring and protecting Roe v Wade, and I will sign it up immediately,” he said. On the flip side, he promised to veto any bill that limits abortions, even abortions up to birth. “As long as I have the powers of the presidency know this, if Congress passes...

NOGALES — In yet another 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that Texas must remove all barbed wire along the border and replace it with a massive, plush red carpet. "How will migrants be able to get in the country if there's barbed wire in the way?" said a visibly confused Justice Sotomayor. "They might get hurt! An elegant red carpet makes much more sense. It's soft and red and can helpfully point the way to gaps along our border and make our new migrants feel welcome. It says that in the Constitution somewhere. Like, in Section...