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What A 1982 Comedy Teaches Us About Men And Women

Dustin Hoffman’s masterpiece "Tootsie" has some lessons for the gender wars.

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Sinatra, ‘Swingers,’ And America’s Golden Age

It's money, baby!

“Heya pal, got a cigarette?”

Frank Sinatra was walking outside the Moulin Rouge in Los Angeles, heading west. Outside the club, the guests at the evening’s charity event had started heading out, getting some fresh, damp spring air to cure their mild drunkenness — not as drunk as Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable, but enough that a few stumbles were caught beneath the circular words, perched on the building’s broad side facing Sunset Boulevard: “Thru These Portals Pass The Most Beautiful Girls In The World,” and the rendering of a woman’s profile illuminated in neon — a relic that the club’s manager, Frank Sennes, wouldn’t dare remove, lest the cache of the club go down in the dumps with it. No, this was Hollywood and no one made a move without having some well-connected friends or a bulletproof reputation. Frank Sinatra had both.

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Nine Books To Bring On Your Late Summer Vacation

From fiction to nonfiction, we've got you covered.

At least three people are dead and two are injured after a gunman opened fire at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger, and authorities say the total number of fatalities is “expected to be higher.”

Horace Sheffield III endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on his radio show last week and urged listeners to make “5 and 10 phone calls” to help him in the Aug. 4 primary against Rep. Haley Stevens. Sheffield is the pastor of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and host of “The Wake-Up Call” on FaithTalk 101.5 FM.

The mass migration event taking place in Ceuta, Spain, is a result of multiple push and pull factors that enticed thousands to make the swim from Morocco this week.

Between Thursday and Friday, an estimated 60,000 migrants, mainly young men from Morocco, swam around or scaled border fences to reach nearby Ceuta, a Spanish territory of roughly 83,000 residents that sits on the African continent. As of publication, nearly three dozen people are dead, according to The New York Times.

Comedy legend John Cleese went scorched earth on the mass immigration — particularly of Muslims — in Britain, declaring via X that he is not “a racist,” but rather “a culturalist.”

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Troy Jackson Is The Cousin F*cker Who Would Replace The Nazi

The Maine Democrats are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Happy Friday to everyone, but not to Troy Jackson. The Cousin F*cker.

Believe it or not, we are now a decade removed from the summer of 2016.

If you’re a liberal, you’re probably used to thinking back to these halcyon days, when everyone was talking about Pokémon Go and a Hillary Clinton victory was in the bag. If you’re reading this site, you’ve probably moved on — and rightly so.

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Leftist Violence Proves Politics’ Deadly Double Standard

Prominent Democrats have fueled this climate with reckless rhetoric.

The U.S. military is weighing new restrictions on cellphone use for some American troops serving in the Middle East amid concerns that Iran is using publicly available social media posts to evaluate the effectiveness of its missile and drone strikes.