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A man from Kentucky decided to clear his driveway using a flamethrower Dressed only in a hat and bathrobe the man casually walked down the drive Passing drivers honked their horns as they drove by the bizarre sight Plenty of people on social media praised the ingenuity of the idea with many wishing they had in fact received flamethrowers for Christmas

Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame says there is a simple reason why President Donald Trump was victorious in the 2016 election: “He understands who’s watching and he understands what’s happening.” America’s “everyman” recently sat down with Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, for a wide-ranging interview for the website’s “Sunday Special.” He used a story regarding his mikeroweWORKS Foundation to explain why Mr. Trump — and not Sen. Bernard Sanders or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — now resides in the White House. Mr. Rowe said that he jokingly called out the trio when his CNN show...

Of Hobbes and Harvey Weinstein... In man’s natural state, with no social or religious order to impose limits upon his hungers and passions, “notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, force and fraud are…the cardinal virtues.” Thus did Thomas Hobbes, in 1651, anticipate and describe the sordid story of the film producer Harvey Weinstein. ... Harvey Weinstein is a brutal thug, a man of no grace, more akin to a mafioso than a maker of culture. And yet as a movie producer he gravitated toward respectable, quality, middlebrow, elevated...

POLITICIANS are human, although some appear not to act like it. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley told her followers on Facebook that she was stuck outside her mansion wearing nothing but her bathrobe. "What not to do ... getting locked out of the Governor's mansion in your robe while sending the kids off to school," she said. Haley, a member of the Republican Party, clearly wants it known she is human. Haley's embarrassment was ended when her daughter Rena returned home and let her in, WLTX reported. The post instantly became one of Haley's most popular, with it liked by...

Six people died after their full-length bathrobes caught fire, prompting the company that sold the robes to recall all 162,000 of the garment and issue this urgent message: Take off your robe. Stat. "CPSC and Blair once again urge consumers to stop wearing the garments immediately," the recall notice says. Blair is offering $50 gift cards to customers who return the robes, sold from January 2003 through March 2009 from about $20 to $40. Blair has received reports of six deaths due to the robes catching on fire. Five of the six victims were female, and all five were cooking...