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Hollywood icon Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95. He was best known for playing Tom Hagen opposite Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather. The actor's wife, Luciana, announced the news Monday on Facebook, writing, 'Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.' She added ... 'To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything. His passion for his craft was matched only by...

Legendary actor and director Robert Duvall has passed away. He was 95 years old. His wife of over 20 years, Luciana, announced his passing in a post on Facebook and said he died on Sunday “peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”

Desperate to avoid possible prosecution for her role in the corruption that has stolen billions of taxpayer's dollars from federal welfare programs, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) called President Trump "the leader of the Pedophile Protection Party who is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them." Reminded that Trump has sued others for defamatory statements, Omar pointed out that "the US Constitution says in Article I, Section 6 that members of Congress are immune--they may not be questioned in any other place for what they...

Classic movies resonate because they reflect what we understand in our guts to be true. Silence of the Lambs featured Buffalo Bill, a transgender serial killer who skinned women so he could wear their skin. Driven by the liberal establishment’s promotion of LGBTism, the rapidly expanding Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors has confirmed the movie’s underlying insight. Yet now Hollyweird apologizes for it. Via Hollywood Reporter: Silence of the Lambs surprised the industry as an Oscar-winning, generation-defining smash. But over the years, the characterization of Buffalo Bill (whose sexual orientation is not explicitly stated) has been viewed as gender nonconforming...

A sassy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was seen putting a female protester in her place as she tried to interject during the arrest of an alleged child rapist in Minnesota. The incident, posted to TikTok on Friday by Olivia Jensen, showed her recording federal officers from inside her car as she called them 'race traitors'. She filmed herself driving behind the federal vehicle before the officers approached her driver's-side door and addressed her by her first name. Jensen then said she would continue to follow the officers, before asking them: 'How's it feel to be a race traitor?'...

WOW! On Sunday I had perhaps the BEST BBQ wings of my life. You can see them above in a big circle around my new BBQ accessory. I dry brined the wings on Saturday with a mix of kosher salt and baking powder to keep the salinity level low. I kept them on raised two wire racks in the fridge overnight. The next day I put the wings in a big bowl and added a few table spoons of olive oil. Then I thoroughly coated the wings with about a 50/50 mix of Polynesian Pineapple rub and smoked paprika. I...

For very many years now, prominent American liberals have delighted in playing footsie with Eurotrash globalists. Democrats hate America, and increasingly irrelevant European leaders love hearing them bash their own country when visiting. It's been a safe place for demented lefties like Hillary Clinton ever since she's been soiling American politics. Not all European leaders are besties with the seditious Dems, of course, it's just the loudest ones. Or it was just the loudest ones. As once glorious nations like England and France casually invite their invaders in and assist in the takeover, other members of the European Union have...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez incorrectly stated on Sunday that Venezuela is “below the equator” while she criticized President Donald Trump’s administration for capturing former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Ocasio-Cortez argued at Technical University of Berlin’s TEDx event that the administration could not engage in a so-called “act of war” simply because Venezuela is south of the Equator, though Venezuela is located north of the equator. The U.S. captured Maduro in a special operations mission called Operation Absolute Resolve on Jan. 3 and charged him in Manhattan with narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy, weapon offenses and corruption. “We look...

Colorado Democrats have officially introduced a bill to fully decriminalize prostitution. If passed, Senate Bill 26-097 would make Colorado the first state in the entire country to completely remove criminal penalties for buying and selling sex between consenting adults. If enacted, the legislation would repeal the state criminal offenses of: - Prostitution - Soliciting for prostitution - Patronizing a prostitute - Keeping a place of prostitution - Pandering related to arranging prostitution

Deni Avdija is the first Israeli basketball star to play in the NBA's All-Star Game, as a starter for Team World. Avdija is proud to be there, telling the media, "It's a dream come true," to represent Israel on the court. But because sports cannot be free of politics, this is how filmmaker Spike Lee showed up at the game, decked out in "Free Palestine" garb. Simply incredible.

After the first contest of the 2026 NBA All-Star Game -- which featured a brand new format with two USA teams and one World team -- ended, Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was asked by the NBC broadcast about wanting the ball on the first possession of overtime. Edwards didn't directly answer the question, but his response was telling. Edwards admitted that Victor Wembanyama "set the tone," and it was hard not to match his energy. It was a stark contrast to Edwards' comments on the eve of the NBA All-Star Game, when he directly said "no" when asked if the...

New York City joins Dearborn, Houston, and more in creating the most electrifying Ramadan month across the U.S. In 2026, the country’s cities are transforming the holy month into a vibrant celebration of culture, unity, and community. From the neon glow of New York’s Times Square to Dearborn’s festive streets, every city brings its unique charm to Ramadan festivities. Houston’s government-sponsored Iftar dinners unite people from all backgrounds, while the City of Bell hosts a thrilling night market.These cities are not just celebrating Ramadan—they’re igniting a patriotic spirit that embraces diversity and inclusion. This year, the U.S. is showcasing how...

Lesson: Always take out the commies when they are about to collapse under the sheer weight of their malignant incompetence. They must be held to account. They have infiltrated our society through their Dirección de Inteligencia (DI), the Intelligence Directorate.

A man who was captured on camera making a failed burglary attempt in Hialeah appeared before a judge, Thursday. Dean Young, 26, stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Victoria S. Sigler after being charged with attempted burglary and criminal mischief. According to the police report, Young allegedly parked his gray Hyundai next to a landscaper’s van that was working outside of a home near East 19th Street, Wednesday afternoon. Ring camera video from the homeowner, Nercy Toldeo, captured the moment the would-be burglar snuck into the back of the van, where he soon found out he wouldn’t be going anywhere....

Many were triggered by the Bad Bunny halftime show at Super Bowl LX, largely because it became the latest fuel for the American outrage and counter outrage machine. Some complained to the FCC about the supposedly profane nature of the lyrics they loudly complained they didn’t understand anyway, because they weren’t in English. Whatever the language, an initial FCC review concluded that the show didn’t violate applicable decency regulations. Via Charles Gasparino of the New York Post, the FCC determined that the songs sung weren’t blue. They were, as Gasparino puts it, “scrubbed of lyrics that normally include references to...

America’s richest citizens are quietly transforming their estates into military-grade compounds equipped with underground bunkers, biometric security systems, moats, and private armed forces. The scale and urgency of this shift raises a question the mainstream press seems reluctant to ask: What exactly are they preparing for? *** The wealthy are spending between $100,000 and $1.5 million on security installations that include underground bunkers, laser-powered perimeter defense systems, and biometric access controls. Some are purchasing specially trained protection dogs for as much as $175,000. The message is unmistakable: traditional security measures no longer feel adequate, even for those living in America’s...

Breaking Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found: Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale. They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk. They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material. Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they...

Elon didn’t reverse that through inspiration. He reversed it by building companies that required understanding manufacturing or failing completely. SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade through systems, how physical iteration costs months and millions per failure. No debugging. No patches. Just physics that doesn’t negotiate. Boyle: “Training two generations of engineers.” The product isn’t the cars. It’s the people. Look at who’s founding America’s critical hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn’t Stanford or MIT. It’s time on factory floors at SpaceX or Tesla. They learned welding. They learned that “impossible” just means...

After the National Park Service removed the rainbow flag from Stonewall National Monument in NYC, Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Sunday afternoon that he plans to introduce legislation "to designate the pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag.” https://abcnews.link/JdGOPu9

A ghost story falls in the category of fantasy. And former ABC reporter Tara Palmeri's Halloween-in-February hot take in Vanity Fair on Thursday, "Epstein’s Ghost Is Calling All the Shots in Trump’s White House," certainly falls within the realm of fantasy. She updates Banquo's ghost to the 21st century and engages in the fantasy that Epstein's ghost is somehow haunting Trump's every move.Since no incriminating facts in the Epstein files could be found about Trump, Palmeri performs the pretense of somehow channeling the president's soul and concluding that his every waking (and sleeping) moment is being haunted by Epstein's ghost....