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At the 2017 Emmy Awards, Dolly was reunited with her co-stars from the 1980 hit comedy Nine to Five. It was nine months into the Trump administration, and two of the presenters weren’t about to let you forget it. Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda let loose mini-screeds against Trump. Dolly looks uncomfortable, then defuses the awkwardness by making a joke about the size of her breasts. And the podcasters want to know—they need to know—why Dolly didn’t attack Trump along with her co-stars and friends. Doesn’t she hate the guy? (Translation: Please tell us you hate the guy!) For the...

It's almost too easy to take a swipe at the hypocrisy of the Democratic Socialists of America. I'm not kidding about that. I seriously debated with myself about whether it is even worth it to write about how just about every DSA leader turns out to be a nepo-baby cosplaying as a working-class person before going home to their parent-purchased or subsidized luxury home. f the DSA had remained an obscure political party with little relevance, I wouldn't have written about this phenomenon, but the line between the DSA and the Democratic Party is blurred. The DSA may see itself...

Torrential rains caused a gigantic pile of garbage to become a deadly landslide in Guinea’s capital city of Conakry on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 people as homes were completely buried under the avalanche of refuse. City sanitation officers said the Dar Es Salam landfill, the largest trash dump in Conakry, was supposed to be shut down on Sunday. Minister of Territorial Administration Djenab Toure announced on Thursday that trash from the unsafe landfill would be relocated to a dump further from the city, which has a population of about two million. The same site produced a deadly landslide...

The Trump administration plans to charge US employers $103,265 in new fees to hire highly skilled foreign workers via the H-1B visa program - an eye-popping increase that comes amid the administration's broader hard-line immigration crackdown. The six-figure hike, proposed Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, would force employers to shoulder the extra $103,000 in costs for each H-1B recipient, in addition to other filing fees currently in place.

For about the 25th year, one of Free Republic's members is pleased to create a Yahoo! Pick'em Fantasy Football league. The league rules are simple: ** Pick the winners of each game ** Assign a confidence value to each game ** Post messages to each other on the message board that include bad puns ** Donate generously to Free Republic at the end of the season in the name of the top point earner That's about it. It is a wonderful time waster that really doesn't take much time. I tend to pick all the games in preseason for all...

Today we are seeing in real time a coordinated and concerted effort to undermine our Country’s history, traditions and institutions. It is part of the war waged in the “long march through institutions” that is the core of the campaign, in Barack Obama’s words, to “fundamentally transform[] the United States of America.” Nothing less than the total destruction of this country will be tolerated by those who are disciples of both totalitarian murderers from Mao Zedong to Che Guevera, and of the Ivy League sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. A comprehensive discussion of this existential threat to Western...

We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. Before he was murdered, Kirk debated Piker and called him a “socialist hypocrite.” What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning...

They want to acknowledge the sudden rise in antisemitism but they can’t bear to acknowledge that Donald Trump was doing something about it.“Breaking News.” That’s how The Washington Post begins the story whose headline read, “The Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower.”“Little to no evidence of systemic abuse,” you say? According to a “whistleblower,” forsooth. More like a “whistling-in-the-wind blower.” You can read the 25-page complaint here. It posted on August 17. The next day, Johnny on...

Have you ever seen a medical professional, or do you anticipate seeing one in your life? For most of us, the answer is yes. For all of us, the quality of education provided to medical professionals is of vital importance because we live in a world where public health professionals can rule over us in many respects. So something like this should scare the hell out of you:Jeffrey Flier @jflier · Follow The editorial standards of the @NEJM must be questioned for deciding to publish this article as it is presented below. Such terrible judgement. Jason Arday and the Perils...

I really wanted the column to run. I didn’t think it would, but I felt obligated to try to get it in. Toward the end of last month, before the Seattle Storm hosted the Indiana Fever, I spoke to people attending a rally in support of Sophie Cunningham outside Climate Pledge Arena. The Fever guard had recently taken a stance against biological males competing in women’s/girls sports, and a few dozen folks showed up to express their gratitude for her position. One of them was 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson, who’d lost to a biological male in a track and field race...

As someone quipped on Twitter yesterday: America 250 finally has something to celebrate. Either that, or Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies will get more popular. Who says self-deportation won't work? Six years after coming to the US to launch a self-promoting media empire while claiming to shun the spotlight, Britain's part-time royals have decided to return to the United Kingdom after all. Fox News gives a brief rundown of the timeline of their oh-so-brief run in the A-list circles of Tinseltown... FOX & Friends @foxandfriends · Follow ROYAL RETURN: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are returning to the U.K. After...

The Democratic Socialists of America have been growing in power within the Democratic Party, most notably by capturing a number of Democrat nominations in the 2026 primaries, though it’s important to remember that they already hold plenty of seats in public office. They aren’t a new phenomenon in 2026, it’s just that they are now receiving substantial public notice in 2026. A very different thing. In fact, the Democratic Socialists of America – essentially the borderless movement of global communism – have been making inroads in the Democratic Party for generations, but only recently have they felt comfortable dropping the...

An Iranian American Muslim and former political prisoner who lived through the aftermath of Iran’s 1979 revolution sat down with The Dallas Express to discuss the rise of the Islamic Republic, the impact of Sharia-based governance on Iranians, and why she believes Islamic fundamentalism has developed into a threat extending far beyond the Middle East. Homeira Hesami, chairwoman of the Iranian-American Community of North Texas, was barely a teenager when the revolution toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. IACNT describes itself as an independent nonprofit that has served North Texas’ Iranian community for more than three decades, with a focus on...

Rosie O’Donnell kicked off her second night of guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, much like she did on Monday, with Kimmel-esque nicknames for President Trump coupled with accusations of fascism while not appreciating the irony of being able to host a show in such an allegedly fascist environment. O’Donnell also made sure to follow in Anthony Anderson’s footsteps and mock Trump’s escape from Turkey by shrinking the size of the airport catering truck to a simple cart, “This has been kind of a strange experience for me, because all of a sudden I'm re-famous. I'm back in...

A top California dentist and professor at Triton College has made no secret of his hatred towards Zionists since October 7th, and has posted hundreds of Instagram stories calling for the “death” of people who support Israel. According to a review of his social media, Dr. Ahmed Mataria — who owns Mataria Dental Group in Torrance, California — is currently calling for “DEATH TO ZIONISTS EVERYWHERE” according to his Instagram bio. “F*** ISRAEL, DEATH TO ZIONISTS EVERYWHERE,” his Instagram bio currently reads as of publication time. The prof is a self-described Palestinian who lives in the United States of America....

It turns out that a controversial University of Chicago professor arrested last year for alleged felony aggravated battery on a police officer is the sister of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor focused on religion, gender, identity, and demography, is El-Sayed’s maternal half-sister, the Washington Free Beacon reported. “A self-described ‘Queer Muslim’ and ‘community organizer’ who uses the pronouns ‘she/they,’ she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus,” the Beacon reported. Abdelhadi, a signatory to an open letter pledging “solidarity” with the “Palestinian resistance” shortly after...

Researchers at the Marquette Law School Poll recently identified a sharp generational decline in trust across the United States. Americans born before 1960 still hold onto a baseline assumption that their neighbors will not rob them, given half a chance. They are the most trusting demographic in the country. The numbers worsen with each successive generation. The cohort born in the 2000s registers the highest levels of distrust ever recorded by the project. A significant portion of young adults operate under the functional premise that everyone else is a threat. The situation gets significantly uglier from there. A comprehensive 25-country...

From New York to California, the American left is proving that nothing succeeds like failure. From immigration to taxes to health care, politicians are playing to their past fiascos to push an even more radical agenda. Take immigration. Many, including the Democratic Socialists, have called for open borders or disbanding ICE. After the Biden administration chose to allow millions of undocumented people to enter the country, most Democrats are now calling for “pathways” to make them citizens. After all, they argue, there are too many to deport.We now know the open border was a choice. The Trump administration immediately stopped...