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Barbara Boland | February 24, 2015
Pop-singing prodigy and former Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera has a very distinctive and powerful voice – a voice that sounds nothing like Cher, Britney or Shakira.  Jimmy Fallon asked Christina to play a game of “Wheel of Musical Impressions” on the Tonight Show Monday, and Christina absolutely nailed the diverse voices she was asked to impersonate. You have to hear this to believe it! 
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Barbara Boland | February 24, 2015
Newlywed couples that watched five relationship-themed movies and discussed a series of guided questions afterwards cut their likelihood of divorce by the three-year mark in half, according to a new study. This simple activity was just as effective as other more expensive and intense “therapist-led” methods, lowering the divorce or separation rate from 24 to 11 percent. The results suggest that…
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Barbara Boland | February 23, 2015
Russell Brand, British comedian and actor, has a YouTube channel where he criticizes Fox News and advocates for socialism – so his comments on the popularity of “Fifty Shades of Grey” surprised many. Citing a quote that is frequently attributed to John Paul II, "The problem with porn isn't that it shows us too much, it’s a problem because it shows us too little,” Brand went on to question what…
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Barbara Boland | February 23, 2015
“This is a shameful chapter – I’m ashamed of my country, I’m ashamed of my president and I’m ashamed of myself that I haven’t done more to help these people,” said Sen. Joh McCain (R-Ariz.) on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday. The failure of the U.S. and Europe to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s incursions into the Ukraine “is really, really heartbreaking.” “I believe that German…
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Barbara Boland | February 20, 2015
“I cannot accept that poverty leads to terrorism,” Ahmed Aboutaleb, the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam, told CNN Wednesday, taking issue with the Obama administration’s claims. “I know how it is to live in poverty. I spent 15 years in Morocco on one meal a day, walking without shoes… I know how it is to be a product of poverty.” The mayor made headlines in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks when…
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Barbara Boland | February 20, 2015
ISIS fighters are “buying strange underwear for their women," desperately searching for “blue pills in order to increase their strength to have more sex” [Viagra,] and are subjecting their wives to “brutal, abnormal” sex acts, according to a report by local doctors. A large part of the fighters’ monthly allowance is spent on “kinky underwear” and on purchasing sabaya (kidnapped women and…
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Barbara Boland | February 20, 2015
Comedian Eddie Murphy refused to play Bill Cosby in an eleventh-hour decision that played out in an awkward pause on the live broadcast of the 40th anniversary special of “Saturday Night Live.” “He will not kick a man when he is down,” explained Norm Macdonald, the SNL cast member that tried to talk Murphy into doing the sketch. The sketch Macdonald wanted would have had Murphy wearing a…
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Barbara Boland | February 19, 2015
Leaving behind her role as State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki has been named President Barack Obama’s new communications director. Let’s take a look at a few of her career highlights: She became a minor celebrity in Russia when she spoke during a press briefing about “carousel voting” in the Ukraine, then admitted she didn’t know what the term meant. Her photo became a popular meme and “…
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Barbara Boland | February 19, 2015
In heart-stopping testimony, Beshir Kamel, brother of two of the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya, called in to a TV show yesterday and said he thanks ISIS for keeping the Christians’ last words of “Lord Jesus Christ” in their brutal video, because “ISIS strengthened our faith.” "Since the Roman era, Christians have been martyred and have learned to handle everything that comes our…
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Barbara Boland | February 19, 2015
A blistering disregard for the presumption of innocence in high-profile cases and high-drama interrogations are just two of the hallmarks of former prosecutor Nancy Grace’s TV show – but this time she has outdone herself. She posted this image to her Facebook page, with the message: “Let's test your #CrimeIQ! What held the door open to little Haleigh Cummings’ home the morning she was discovered…