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Shaving his head for a movie helped him get the part of a lifetime, and he spent nine seasons on the hit NBC sitcom.Richard Moll, the fun-loving actor who portrayed the towering and tenderhearted bailiff Aristotle Nostradamus “Bull” Shannon on all nine seasons of the popular NBC sitcom Night Court during its original run, has died. He was 80. Moll died peacefully Thursday at his home in Big Bear Lake, California, his publicist announced. Suitable for his 6-foot-8 frame, Moll played an abominable snowman alongside Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach in the comedy feature Caveman (1981), and he was a...

As with every major revelation proving them to be the treacherous, anti-democratic demons they are, the corporate media have instantly gone to work sweeping away the shocking conclusions of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the FBI’s conduct as it related to its 2016 investigation of Donald Trump and Russia. Years of work went into this thing, and the media believe all of its heinous discoveries can be set aside with a few news briefs belittling them as minor, unimpressive matters of mistake and “shortcomings.” That’s not what Durham found. What he found was explicit bias within the world’s most...

Behold! Fashion Notes, Met Gala edition are here! I’m breaking down the best and worst dressed stars from the red carpet. For this year’s Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the late and great Karl Lagerfeld is being paid tribute. Lagerfeld died in February 2019 and I wrote about his legacy at the time. I consider him the most innovative designer of the 20th and 21st centuries as he defied expectations during his tenure at Chanel and did not allow the limits of the fashion crowd’s narrow-mindedness dictate his artistry. He designed a world that lives in...

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: School friends Nqobile Zulu, 5, and his pal Tshiamo Rabanye, 6, bled out after they had their noses, lips and genitals cut off before having their throats slit in a horrific black magic ritual in Soweto, South AfricaA woman and her partner have been arrested in a dramatic police swoop for the horrific murder and mutilation of two boys in South Africa allegedly to steal their “body parts”. The tragic school friends were feared to be victim of “muti killings” where victims are killed and dismembered of body parts "to order" for the use of witchdoctors. The...

BuzzFeed News is no more, but its former editor, Ben Smith, spearheading the new Semafor media venture, decided to reflect on the moment he gave the green light to post the infamous Steele Dossier. The document was unverifiable and has now been dismissed as anything but legitimate. This tranche of papers is what set off the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Donald Trump, the investigation that formed the core of the Russian collusion hoax that later evolved into the Mueller investigation. The media circus destroyed the last vestiges of credibility with many reporters in the legacy media. No bombshell development ever...

"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. "For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities,...

Hunter Biden’s lawyers will reportedly meet in coming days with U.S. prosecutor David Weiss and one Justice Department official after an IRS agent alleged the improper politicization of a tax probe into the president’s son — all while Attorney General Merrick Garland refuses to name a special counsel in the case. As far back as May 2019, Hunter has been under investigation by the DOJ for tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws. Federal prosecutors, led by Weiss, have reportedly considered charging Hunter over a year ago for three tax crimes and one gun crime. Though Hunter has...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that President Biden is “afraid” to negotiate about the budget and debt ceiling, blaming him for the U.S. potential default on loans. “And then he’s jeopardizing Medicare and Social Security, because, for the first time in a 10-year window, not just the Highway Trust Fund, but Medicare and Social Security becomes insolvent, so it automatically gets cut,” McCarthy told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCksqF5Sd8On April 14, 2023, the US Navy launched its newest vessel in its fleet. The USS Cleveland, LCS-31, is a Freedom Class littoral combat ship. At 388 feet, it weighs in at 3,410 metric tons and can exceed 46mph on the water. Ordinarily, a ship launch is a publicized event with local coverage but rarely rises to the level of national attention. This event, however, was different and not in a good way. Since its founding in October 1775, the US Navy has proudly and effectively served the nation in peacetime and wartime. As a maritime branch of...

@johncardillo There is no excuse for Trump abdicating his presidency to Fauci. None whatsoever. You can debate civil service laws on firing, but Trump had full control over who was invited to meetings, put on air, and whose advice to follow. We didn’t elect Fauci. Trump coronated him.

Researchers show that use of senolytics can improve the reparative properties of human heart cells by eliminating senescent "zombie cells," known to be associated with cardiovascular disease and other age-related conditions Aging is the greatest risk factor for many life-threatening disorders, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. "Senescence" is the term given to the biological aging process which involves the build-up of senescent cells, called "zombie" cells, which refuse to die. Zombie cells release chemicals that can be harmful to nearby cells, affecting cell survival and reparative potential. The build-up of these zombie cells in our bodies promotes aging and age-related...

Prominent Dutch Philosopher and Convert Charts Her Path to the Catholic ChurchPolitical commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek and her father will be received Into the Church Sunday.AMSTERDAM — Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a popular Dutch legal philosopher and political commentator who has become well-known in recent years for her criticism of increasingly prominent social ideologies in contemporary Western society, will be received into the Catholic Church along with her father on Sunday. Born to a Catholic mother and Protestant father, Vlaardingerbroek, 26, was brought up a Christian, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that fully awakened her to the reality of the spiritual...

Big Tech has a great big dream of destroying the internet. And it’s mostly a reality. The vision of the internet was an open universe while Big Tech’s vision is the internet reduced to the feed on a few proprietary apps preloaded on your locked phone. Trying to censor the internet of the 90s or the 00s was a laughable proposition, but censoring today’s internet is laughably easy. Want to eliminate a site from the internet? Just wipe it from Google, ban a point of view from Facebook, a book from Amazon, or a video from YouTube. It’s still possible...

Two new polls from a top Republican polling firm — provided exclusively to Axios — find Florida Gov. DeSantis is running more competitively with former President Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire than he is faring in national surveys. Driving the news: The surveys, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies from March 21 to 23 for an outside client (not a candidate or super PAC) found DeSantis leading Trump by eight points (45%-37%) in a head-to-head matchup in Iowa and tied with Trump (39%-39%) in New Hampshire.

Ron DeSantis Is Definitely Running He presents himself as a serious, forward-leaning, pro-business, antiwoke conservative Republican. By Peggy Noonan The first GOP presidential debate is five months away, in August. Primaries begin about six months after. This thing is on. Some observations on Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor is definitely running. Every sign is there: donors, a growing and increasingly professional organization, a book that is part memoir, part platform and debuted this week at No. 1 on the New York Times list. A few days ago he gave a big, packed-house speech at the Reagan Library. He’s come off...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is gearing up for a run for President. But today’s silence about New York’s prosecutorial abuse against President Trump is not helping him one bit. President Trump is crushing all other candidates from either party in polls for the 2024 Presidential race. Joe Biden is a disgrace and the most hated person to ever step into the White House. And this is before the upcoming economic meltdown. President Trump is leading all GOP candidates for President and hopefuls. Many people believe Ron DeSantis should back President Trump to bring the party together. But DeSantis’s actions to...

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley have been attacked by a number of Trump loyalists for failing to comment on rumors the former president will be arrested on Tuesday. MAGA Republicans have criticized DeSantis and Haley for not speaking out against the Manhattan DA's office for what they claim is a weaponization of the justice system. DeSantis is widely rumored to be preparing to run against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley was the first to enter the race after Trump. Jason Miller, a Trump adviser and the former CEO of right-wing free speech app Gettr noted a 'radio...

Sam Fox's sister Vanessa has died suddenly aged 50 after being rushed to hospital following a heart attack. The younger sister of the Page 3 legend died on Saturday. Her death came nine days after she collapsed at her home. Ahead of her 2017 autobiography Forever, Sam told how Vanessa saved her after their alcoholic dad Pat attacked her. She said: “I thought he was going to kill me and begged him to stop. When I tried to get up he kicked me so hard in the stomach it winded me and he wouldn’t stop. My sister Vanessa heard what...

The friends and family of a Hastings man who died suddenly, aged only 23, are running in this year’s Hastings Half-Marathon to raise awareness of a heart condition.Dan Parris died on February 22, 2021 due to Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS), his older brother Matt said. He had never been diagnosed with any heart conditions and seemed to be in perfect health, his family said. He left his wife-to-be Holly and baby daughter Olivia. Matt said: “To date, Dan’s exact cause of death is still unknown but has been attributed to SADS. This year his friends and I are running...

[Catholic Caucus] Schneider: Francis Treats Bishops "Like School Boys"Francis' talk of "decentralisation," "plurality," "diversity" and "welcome" is exposed as “a lie” by the recent rescript against the Mass, Bishop Schneider told @catholichack (March 5, video below).Catholics are being discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens in Francis' Church, “while at the same time, you can do whatever you want during Mass, for example LGBT Masses, where you don’t need permission from Rome.”For Schneider, the rescript is ideological and a rejection of Catholic Tradition, but despite this “the traditional Mass will continue to grow.”Francis treats bishops like "schoolboys who do not...