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The married church pastor publicly accused of taking a 16-year-old girl’s virginity on his office floor began grooming her as early as 14, her family have alleged to DailyMail.com. And victim Bobi Gephart, now 43, was held in a Svengali-like grip by 65-year-old preacher John Lowe II for at least eight years as he had sex with her ‘many, many’ times, they add. Lowe – forced to quit the large church he built from scratch in Warsaw, Indiana, because of the storm – was so desperate to keep his illicit lust secret that he verbally blackmailed her into staying silent,...

Sarcastic, bitter, and vague are all terms that come to mind when looking at the Biden administration’s press secretary. The role of the press secretary is to collect information about what’s going on around the country and around the world – and share how that’s impacting the country and how the president is handling it all. The press secretary is supposed to interact with the media – and share details of what the administration is doing about hot topics that concern Americans. To say that Jen Psaki is not good at her job is an understatement. She is unable to...

The world's crankiest cat, whose permanent scowl inspired countless memes, a best-selling series of books and a movie, has passed away at the age of seven. Grumpy Cat - real name Tardar Sauce - shot to fame in 2012 in a YouTube video that received 15.7 million views, and went on to amass a $100M fortune for her former-waitress owner Tabatha Bundesen. But her family from Morristown, Arizona, took to Instagram this morning to announce the news that she'd died on Tuesday from a urinary tract infection, saying: 'Some days are grumpier than others'. The internet sensation was born with...

(CNN) -- We may never know what Casey Hathaway was doing during the three days he was missing. He was found on Thursday, cold but alive, in a mess of vines and thorns in Craven County, North Carolina. But the 3-year-old has volunteered one noteworthy detail about those days in the woods: a bear kept him company.

“The current season of The Handmaid’s Tale has been brutal. And so has America as of late,” the Daily Beast contributor Alex Zaragoza bemoaned to open her overwrought piece on why we should be worried that our country is turning into a dystopian feminist fiction. Since the premiere of Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel last year, liberals in the media have made a concerted effort to compare the feminist dystopia to current America, with Trump as leader. With the show being renewed for a second season this past Spring, it’s given the media ample more opportunities to gush how...

Hertz has joined several other top car rental companies in cutting ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA). The company wrote on Twitter on Friday that it would stop offering a discount on rental cars to NRA members.

Freedom of speech in America is on the line, as Judge James A. Hinkle had to resign due to his criticism of protesters concerned about Confederate monuments in Charlottesville. He made a simple post on Facebook, and he did not threaten anyone, as we are seeing so many from the Left doing. In my opinion, this proves our free speech is endangered. Judge James A. Hinkle offered his immediate resignation from his position as a part-time magistrate with the Gwinnett County Magistrate Court. Hinkle’s Facebook post Saturday called protesters of Confederate monuments “snowflakes who have no concept of history.” He...

A generation ago, the American gun industry came up with a devilish new campaign to bolster declining sales — militarizing the civilian firearms market with lightly adapted versions of potent battlefield weapons like the M-16 rifle. Renamed the AR-15, this semiautomatic assault rifle has come to haunt society in the hands of criminals and the deranged, who regularly kill innocent people in high-powered mass shootings.

It seems as though real life examples of guns saving -- rather than taking -- innocent life go largely unreported (or flat-out ignored) in the mainstream media. Therefore, I have decided to post the following must-read story in its entirety (via Cameron Gray): A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday. The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman....

In what Rolling Stone describes as "a bid to win over potential supporters in the under-thirty crowd," and what a certain columnist describes as a "fat, hanging curveball," Sen. Hillary Clinton announced on her campaign web site that she is seeking an official campaign theme song. In typical Democrat fashion, Clinton controls and limits the choices, offering just two U2 tunes, one Dixie Chicks bit, one Shania Twain twang, a Monkees remake, and four others. But as individuals have shown throughout the history of this great nation, they are more ingenious and capable of aptly satisfying a need or want...

New Yorkers can breathe easy again: The "corpse flower" has passed its smelly peak. But the plant dubbed "Baby" may soon have some of its own. It was the first time in 67 years that the odoriferous Amorphophallus titanum bloomed in New York City. The plant began blooming around 2 p.m. Thursday at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. By that evening, it was giving off its signature pungent odor, a smell akin to rotten eggs or garbage left out overnight, that emanated well into Friday morning. But by Friday afternoon, visitors had to get right next to the unusual flower to...

"Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: First Woman President of the United States of America," planned for display at New York's Museum of Sex, is now available on YouTube.com..

The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed in an Israeli bombing of a UN post in Lebanon are evidence Hezbollah was using the post as a "shield" to fire rockets into Israel, says a former UN commander in Bosnia. Those words, written in an e-mail dated just nine days ago, offer a possible explanation as to why the post -- which according to UN officials was clearly marked and known to Israeli forces -- was hit by Israel on Tuesday night, said retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie yesterday. The strike hit the UN...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. He worked on the most intrusive inspections during this period and either participated in or planned inspections that led to four of the seventeen resolutions against Iraq.

This guy is one of the biggest idiot I have ever seen. He told Cheney to go F himself on a CNN. And now hes selling the video of himself telling Cheney to F off on Ebay. Geezzz. I dont know why I care. http://hurricanekatrinasucked.com/_wsn/page2.html

  Bill Clinton must mull over offer Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official.Mr Clinton was offered the deal on a recent trip to Kenya.He was offered the animals as a traditional African way of getting a father to give away his daughter's hand in marriage.The dowry is a very generous one by the country's own standards.Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Mr Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Minister.He said: "Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding."I would have invited...

CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High. The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños

Retiree gets probation after tussling with younger man over foul language Wed Dec 15, 4:02 AM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A 79-year-old retiree who tussled with a man half his age over the man's foul language in a restaurant was sentenced to probation. But outside of that, he's been treated more like a hero than a criminal. Bill Stevenson said the fracas began in July when he and another retired 3M engineer, Sten Gerfast, 74, were having coffee at a bagel shop. In walked Jesse Tabor, 40, talking on a cellphone and liberally using four-letter words, the men...