Author: emma

Spring is smack-dab in the middle of the golf season when fans flock to professional tournaments all over the country to watch their favorite golfers chip, putt and birdie their way to the top of the leader board. Then, sometime during the day, they get peckish and head to the food and drink stands to quench and satiate themselves before running to the next hole. Beer is a favorite among golf fans, and at this year’s PGA Tournament starting Thursday, they will be paying more than last year, quite a bit more. How much? $18. And that’s the cheap end…

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Imams in Sweden are charging Muslims for “weddings” with prostitutes as a means to circumvent Islamic rules on sex before marriage, according to an investigative report by public broadcaster SVT. These sham “pleasure marriages” are designed to allow Muslims to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes as “husband and wife” but are ended as soon as the sexual activity is completed. The quickie nuptials last for around one hour and the imams who collect the money for their marriage and divorce services view their services as business. Two prostitutes who spoke to SVT for the report said that at least…

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What is a woman? Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t able to answer this question posed during her SCOTUS confirmation hearing last month, but she may be able to now if she follows the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and their new expanded definition of “woman.” By a vote of 3-2, the Board passed then ratified an ordinance to adopt the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international treaty adopted in 1979. While this treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, it was never brought to the Senate for ratification. Since then over…

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The National Basketball Association has been in a ratings and attendance freefall since adopting woke left-wing stances such as refusing to play games after the Kenosha shooting in 2020, wearing social justice messages on jerseys and painting “Black Lives Matter” on the parquet. The league’s solution to this revenue loss is to not focus on the fundamentals of the sport to lure back fans but to hike up ticket prices by double the rate of inflation. According to the New York Post ticket prices have increased by 18.6 percent this season resulting in higher “gate” earnings per team compared to…

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Climbing Mount Everest, visting the pyramids in Egypt or learning the tango are some familiar bucket list items. But for a Florida woman at the ripe-old-age of 19, getting arrested was on her bucket list. Janiya Shaimiracle Douglas was pulled over for reckless driving, leading to a flashing-lights and siren-blaring chase in Monroe County, Florida, early Thursday morning. She told cops that getting arrested was on her “bucket list” and that she had had this dream since high school.  Douglas had been speeding and driving recklessly down Card Sound Road, catching the eye of Monroe County Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Dosh,…

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In anticipation of the restart of moon exploration, researchers in Florida planted seeds in soil collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and were stunned when the seeds spouted and plants actually grew. The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences received 12 grams (less than half an ounce) of lunar soil from NASA last year and began planting the seeds in a lab in May 2021.  Robert Ferl, researcher with the university, and his team planted thale cress, a small flowering plant that is considered a weed and can be found along road shoulders, and were…

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Student loan forgiveness is a hot button issue that’s been politicized by the Biden Administration, but the reality of carrying massive debt transcends political party and falls firmly in the lap of the average American. But for one Ohio woman the prospect of eliminating her student loan debt became an adventure as she took to the Internet to document her step-by-step quest to whittle down $48,000 to zero in 14 months. Amanda Page, a writer and an associate professor at a nursing college, told Fox News Digital she took out $20,000 in loans for undergraduate school in the mid-90s and…

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Americans are looking for creative ways to stretch budgets as they discover the walk down the aisle is costing more due to runaway inflation, supply chain bottlenecks and constrained demand following the COVID-19 lockdowns. Couples are expected to host 2.5 million weddings in 2022, a 30% increase from 2021, according to The Wedding Report as reported by CNBC. It costs more to put on these lavish events, 25% more just last year, and the elements that make a wedding and reception saw double-digit increases between 2020 and 2021: Wedding cakes — 48.5% Wedding venue food — 36.5% Live bands —…

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Buying a home is out of reach for more and more middle-class Americans, and for first-time home buyers it’s even more elusive. However, there is one bright spot among U.S. cities, and this city comes in as the most affordable city in the world. Take a guess? It’s Pittsburgh, PA! According to the 2022 Demographia International Housing Affordability report, Pittsburgh surprised the analysts by surging  ahead of other cities of similar size based on a ratio called the “median multiple” or price-to-income ratio: The report, based on data from the third quarter of 2021, used the price-to-income ratio, or median…

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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as the proverb goes, and for one Texas woman this saying came to fruition when she learned her $34.99 Goodwill find is actually an ancient Roman bust dating from the late 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD. Laura Young, an avid art collector and thrift shop treasure hunter, purchased the bust in 2018 after finding it under a table at her local Goodwill.  She believed the bust to be a couple of centuries old, but wanted to know precisely the sculpture’s authenticity and origin, so reached out to auction houses…

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Colleges and universities around the United States are experiencing post-pandemic enrollment decline, and it has become more of a challenge for these tertiary education institutions to retain and attract students espeically given the high cost of tuition, despite potential promises of student loan forgiveness. But fear not!  Administrations are pushing new and unique course offerings running the gamut from physical activity (surfing, tree climbing), to little activity at all (clap your hands for credit, how to fail), to popular culture (Lady Gaga, Beyoncé) to serial killers (Ted Bundy? Jeffery Dahmer? Seriously?) in the hopes that they will shake-up the often…

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In yet another attack on the 1st Amendment, Daily Wire host and writer Michael Knowles was banned from speaking at the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities when the school deemed some of Knowles’ past comments derogatory to the transgender and autistic community. Knowles had been invited by the university’s chapter of the College Republicans to participate in a speaking event that was eventually denied approval due to his views. In an email to the College Republicans, a university administrator informed the group that after reviewing the online content available for Mr. Knowles, I concluded that the event…

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A shocking pit bull attack left a South Carolina woman without arms or a voicebox after three dogs mauled her on a sidewalk in the town of Honea Path in the northwest corner of the state. Kyleen Waltman, 39, was fitted with a permanent trachea tube in her throat as bacteria from the dog’s mouths reached her esophagus and she now speaks using a voice-generator box. Amy Wynne, Waltman’s sister, said that the dogs were eating her alive. The dogs dragged her, they scalped her. Her skull was showing. They tore her left eyelid off. They tore her right cheek…

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Shoppers along New York City’s Madison Avenue will have to plan their visits to the high-end glass and metal retail palaces a little more carefully now, since many stores have moved to ‘by appointment only’ amid coordinated daytime shoplifting sprees along the storied glamorous boulevard. In addition to not having regular trading hours, the retailers have dimmed their lights, dead-bolted doors and placed security guards outside to deter would-be thieves during daytime hours. Even the swankiest of shops have not been spared the shocking rise in retail theft, despite NYPD patrol cars parked on the street. The Carolina Herrera boutique…

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We know how cute and playful cats can be, but experts at Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) are cautioning visitors to the islands against playing with or feeding stray and feral cats as they pose a threat to Hawaiian wildlife and spread disease. According to Ryan Jenkinson, PhD, who works in the DLNR’s aquatic division, the stray cats are incredibly destructive animals to the native species in Hawaii he said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Most of the animals on the islands, including monk seals and native birds, do not have natural defense mechanisms to…

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It’s tough being a teenager in our social media saturated world where rumor and reputation live hand in hand. For one Chicago teen, however, the stress over persistent cyberbulling about his vaxx status was too much to bear, leading to his committing suicide. Nate Bronstein, 15, hanged himself in the shower in January after repeated cyberbulling claims that he was not vaxxed against the novel coronavirus, his parents said. Robert and Roselline Bronstein filed a lawsuit in Cook County against administrators for the Latin School of Chicago claiming they committed wilful failure to prevent the incessant bullying against the 10th…

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A new bombshell book by former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown claims that Prince William was worried about Prince Harry’s mental fragility during his whirlwind romance with American actress Meghan Markle as he feared that the younger brother wouldn’t be able to take on all of the pressures of life in the royal household. William, Duke of Cambridge, 39, believed that Markle was ill-prepared for life as a British royal as she was so new to the U.K. and Harry was not ready to take on responsibilities for both of them. A person close to the Duke of Cambridge told me…

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The CEO of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club which hosts the Wimbledon Tennis Championships announced that the club will not require players to have received the COVID-19 jab as a condition to compete in the tournament as there is no shot requirement to enter Britain.  This means that No. 1 ranked Novak Djokovic will be allowed to defend his Wimbledon title. The Serbian Djokovic, 34, was disqualified from playing in the Australian Open in January due to his not being vaccinated against the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. He appealed this decision and was sent to…

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Just when you think Hollywood couldn’t get any more dramatic, actress Olivia Wilde experienced an unscripted moment on stage at CinemaCon in Las Vegas when she was served legal papers from attorneys representing her former partner, actor Jason Sudeikis, in an on-going child custody dispute. Initially believing the manila envelope labeled ‘Personal and Confidential’ was a script, Wilde opened the envelope in front of a packed auditorium where she was speaking about her upcoming Warner Bros’ movie ‘Don’t Worry Darling.’ The audience believed the interruption was part of the show, but the envelope was never referred to again during Wilde’s…

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A suspended high-school football coach and 18-year Marine veteran will soon find out if the United States Supreme Court agrees that he was wrongfully suspended after refusing to stop leading on-field post-game prayer. Joseph Kennedy, former Bremerton High School football coach in Bremerton, WA, was suspended by the Bremerton School District in 2015 and placed on paid leave after resuming on-field prayer even though he had initially agreed to stop doing so. The school reacted after having received multiple complaints from parents of players who were atheist or believed that if their sons did not participate in the prayer that…

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