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Sunday night (April 14) was slated to be a triumphant first for Billy Joel. After half a century in the music business, the Piano Man was headed to prime time for his first-ever broadcast network concert special, The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden – The Greatest Arena Run of All Time. Announced during this year’s Super Bowl and taped on March 28 during Joel’s 100th consecutive performance at the legendary New York city venue, the show was slated to run from 9-11 p.m. on CBS. Unfortunately, the network’s live coverage of the Masters golf tournament pushed back the...

The advocacy group Republican Voters Against Trump announced a new six-figure campaign highlighting former Vice President Mike Pence‘s refusal to endorse former President Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. The 15-second digital ad is set to run in five battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, while the billboard campaign will be featured in Phoenix, Atlanta, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. “This is someone who worked with Donald Trump all four years of his presidency. He saw Donald Trump up close and personal every single day,” said John Conway, the group’s director of strategy, in an...

A billboard in New York City’s Times Square warns of the “ticking time bomb” that is the $34 trillion national debt. Released by the nonprofit Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CTUP) group, the ad campaign includes a 50-f00t-high billboard that will run for three months in Times Square. The digital billboard features a video of people running away in fear of a giant countdown of the national debt until it finally explodes in oblivion. Take a look: Scared of the national debt? You should be. @Comm4Prosperity's NEW Time Square billboard warns of the threat posed by the "ticking time bomb" of...

The Job Creators Network (JCN) lambasted President Job Biden’s “economic approach, reckless spending, and hostility toward domestic energy production” with a Times Square billboard branding him as “the real Grinch who is spoiling small business cheer.” “Nearly three years of ‘Bidenomics’ has left ordinary Americans and small businesses in a precarious situation at the worst possible time heading into the Christmas season,” Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of the Job Creators Network, said in a statement. “Entrepreneurs are continuing to face the ripple effects of prolonged high inflation, a souring regulatory environment, and the threat of higher taxes. Combine that...

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios. Behind the scenes: A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller's action, or whether President Trump approved. Why it matters: Miller's move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration. What happened:...

Brenda Lee was 13 years old in 1958 when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." Sixty-five years later, it has become a part of the Christmas music catalog, been covered by hundreds of other artists, and remains an iconic part of every Christmas tree lighting and celebration. But it has never reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100 list until this year. At 78 years old, Brenda Lee toppled Mariah Carey from her throne to become the oldest woman to reach this musical milestone.Thank God. "All I Want For Christmas Is You" ranks up there with "Feelings" as a...

The war between Israel and Hamas continues to spark debate in the United States and other countries as people express their opinions on the conflict. In New Jersey, a billboard denouncing Hamas was taken down.The sign, which was put up by a Jewish organization named JewBelong, was removed after law enforcement received over 100 complaints. Situated on Route 80 in Bergen County, the billboard's message did not mince words: “Oh, don’t be naïve. Hamas would chop your head off too.”This anti-Hamas billboard on Route 80 in Bogota Borough resulted in more than 100 calls to police before it was taken...

The Job Creators Network (JCN) has placed its latest massive billboard in Times Square, this time blasting President Joe Biden over what economist, lawmakers, and a majority of Americans describe as a poor economic performance. The JCN billboard lands in Times Square just as Biden is expected to announce his reelection bid. “Persistently high inflation continues to more than erase wage gains. In fact, the most recent Consumer Price Index report marks the 24th consecutive month that the rate of price increases has surpassed average earnings gains,” a JCN press release said. “Translation: Americans have gotten a pay cut.”

Love him or loathe him, country music superstar Morgan Wallen has a dedicated following, and with the recent release of his new album, One Thing at a Time, his fans have made their devotion known. The album, which has a whopping 36 tracks, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album charts, and Wallen set a record with every single one of the 36 tracks appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.To put it in perspective, the previous record holder, rapper Drake, placed 27 songs on the chart at once in 2018, while Taylor Swift had 26 songs on...

The Job Creators Network is hammering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) with a massive billboard in Times Square, as she continues to brag about her role in hampering Amazon’s plans to build a second headquarters in Queens, New York, — a project that would have helped bring some 25,000 new jobs to parts of her congressional district. “If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent as much time worrying about creating jobs versus killing them, the U.S. economy would be in a lot better shape than it is today. Her recent victory lap over killing thousands of good paying jobs in New York City...

JANESVILLE, WI - A bachelor hopes his unique approach to dating will help him find his future partner. Robert Siegfried, 43, said he's exhausted all other dating options. "Dating sites just weren't working for me," he said. "Match, Tinder, just none of them were working." He's turned to an electronic billboard along Milton Avenue in Janesville to find the love of his life. By calling the number he lists, he tells "local, honest women" to leave him a message. “I like country music. The American flag for the USA. I’m a country boy at heart," Siegfried said while describing his...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that “on a daily basis makes the McCarthy era look like child’s play.” Barr said, “[W]hen confronted with the question, if Trump is the party’s nominee and he’s running against Biden, who would you vote for? And I say it’s hard for me to see — I just find it hard to believe that I could vote against the Republican nominee...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An electronic billboard in Butler County is upsetting a lot of people. The billboard along Route 422 in Summit Township features a swastika. People who live in the area say this type of hate and negativity isn't welcome in their community, and they're working to do something about it. "To me, what's on the sign is just not acceptable, it's hate speech," Heidi Priest said. The billboard is privately owned and sits on private property. Some people who live in the area said it doesn't represent their community, but they do believe it does represent the need...

Has anyone seen the billboard on I-85N in the Atlanta metro area that shows Uncle Sam saying "Democrats Hate You!". I wonder if someone might be able to post a picture of it here if they see it. I saw it yesterday, while I was driving and I can't find it on the internet anywhere.

A massive billboard ad in Phoenix is thanking Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for keeping the southern border open to invasion from illegal migrants. “Thank you, Mark Kelly, for voting to keep our borders open,” the billboard reads. “The drugs aren’t going to smuggle themselves.” The ad says it was paid for by Citizens for Sanity. According to its website, the group’s mission is “to return common sense to America, to highlight the importance of logic and reason, and to defeat ‘wokeism’ and anti-critical thinking ideologies.” Democrat Kelly and the Biden administration have allowed nearly 2 million illegal migrants into the...

Labor activists call sign which contains pictures of Arab politicians and the phrase 'May our adversaries be removed' 'racist and violent' Labor party activists, led by Ramat Gan deputy mayor attorney Roy Barzilai, submitted a complaint to the police against an Otzma Yehudit party campaign billboard which they call "racist and violent." The sign contains pictures of Arab politicians and the phrase "May our adversaries be removed," referring to the prayer with those words recited on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). The complaint cites that the billboard violates article 144 of the penal code, which prohibits incitement of racism and...

New billboards have sprouted in San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to several online sources, including Twitter, Reddit, and the New York Post.From the New York Post:Mysterious new billboards are warning California residents not to move to Texas, as record numbers of residents flee the soft-on-crime Golden State for better quality of life in red states.“The Texas Miracle died in Uvalde. Don’t move to Texas,” the billboards read, alongside a hooded figure and a crossed-out “Don’t mess with Texas” slogan.The billboard seems to follow the trend of the anti-gun media and those who wish the population disarmed, of using mass...

Lamont Dozier, one-third of the legenday “Holland-Dozier-Holland” songwriting and production trio who wrote many of Motown Records’ biggest hits for the Supremes, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas and others, has died at the age of 81. The news was confirmed by his son Lamont Dozier Jr.; no cause of death has been announced. His family issued the following statement: “Lamont Dozier, devoted father and legendary songwriter, producer and recording artist, died peacefully in his home on Monday, August 8. He was preceded in death by his wife of 40 years, Barbara Ullman Dozier and is survived...

HUGE update from Durham! He just issued 30 unnamed subpoenas for witnesses to appear in trial against Russian Lawyer Danchenko, charged with 5 counts of lying to the FBI. Danchenko was the main source of the completely fabricated Steele Dossier, which was used as the legal justification to illegally spy on then Presidential candidate and eventually President, Donald J. Trump. The witnesses will appear in trial beginning October 11th. The timing is a MASSIVE tell. PRIMED a month out from the midterms, giving time for a full media cycle leading up to the vote. Repeatedly peppering the minds of normies...

In 2019, Rocky was arrested in Sweden along with his two bodyguards after a fight.Back in 2019, former President Donald Trump was personally involved in getting A$AP Rocky out of jail in Sweden after a street fight, and now, more details are emerging. Sweden’s Justice Minister revealed to a local news source this week that Trump used bullying tactics, including threatening to wage trade restrictions against the country, to free the rapper. “If you can try and do something like this against Sweden, what will you then try and do to slightly weaker countries that don’t have the European Union...