John Hayward

In response to Dennis Farina, RIP; Die Hard & Midnight Run Both Turn 25 Years Old: I was sad to hear Dennis Farina had passed on.  He made a great impression on me the first time I saw him.  He

In response to There’s No Appetite For Repealing Stand Your Ground Laws: I suspect you’re right about the dim prospects for success in the great Stand Your Ground jihad.  There’s very little reason to suspect they’re a problem, either from

In response to It’s Deja Vu All Over Again With Obama’s Trayvon Speech: In all fairness, the President did make a few oblique references to crime problems in the black community, although it was very understated compared to his race-baiting

This is what happens when you’re targeted by the dishonest media, which spends a year actively framing you as a racist, and then become a hate fetish for coast-to-coast rallies whipped up by professional racial agitators: you end up with

One of the constant refrains during angry reaction to George Zimmerman’s acquittal for murder is that Trayvon Martin was killed purely because of his skin color.  Even the Race-Baiter-In-Chief pushed this line during one of the more disgusting passages in

With Barack Obama, the Race-Baiter-In-Chief, smiling down upon them, Al Sharpton and his minions got their festival of racial paranoia and hatred going from coast-to-coast on Saturday.  Among other things, there were calls to boycott various tourist attractions and businesses

Remember how Barack Obama gave that stupid speech the other day to assure us that ObamaCare was working perfectly, and he was going to plow right through the naysayers?  He’ll be plowing through Anthem Blue Cross in California, according to

In response to Save the Cat!, The Writer’s Journey and Star Wars: I found the Slate article very interesting, and nodded along with many of the specific examples of formulaic storytelling that were cited.  This is not an entirely new

In response to Chris Wallace is Wrong About Obama’s Trayvon Statement: I spent a lot of time crawling through the full text of President Obama’s remarks, after hearing the first few attempts to rewrite what he said, read deeper meaning

In response to Incredible — the Democratic Party Threatened a Woman Into Supporting a Known Molester and the Media is Treating It Like a Horrific Abortion Clinic in Philadelphia: Nice contrast there!  Back when a local reporter interested in actual

In response to Jesse Jackson Calls Florida an ‘Apartheid State’: As a resident of Florida, I suppose I should take offense at this, but frankly taking Jesse Jackson seriously is like taking self-defense advice from Joe Biden.  If my state’s

This is a public service announcement: Vice President Joe Biden is an idiot, and taking him seriously about important matters can get you arrested.  Just do what the Obama Praetorian Guard in the media does, and ignore him until he

King Barack I wants to make it perfectly clear that the unconstitutional power to rewrite laws that he seized when delaying the ObamaCare employer mandate is his, and his alone.  The House just passed a bill ratifying the delay of

In response to Rachel Jeantel Says Martin Threw the First Punch: This is a detail of the Zimmerman trial and its hyper-politicized aftermath that I find especially maddening.  Political hacks like Attorney General Eric Holder, backed up by 90 percent

In response to A New Low for Rolling Stone magazine: So let me get this straight: a filthy murderer who unquestionably butchered men, women, and children, as part of a war on Western civilization, gets a dreamboat Rolling Stone cover,

In response to Movie Review: The Conjuring: I’m greatly looking forward to seeing “The Conjuring,” as a horror-movie buff who particularly appreciates the fine art of telling a scary story without excessive gory violence.  I’m not a snob about that

In response to Zimmerman Failed to Understand the Cultural Context in Which He was Being ‘Whoop-Assed’: The funny thing is that the dimwitted Piers Morgan thinks Jeantel’s performance was a stunning triumph that could have reversed the Zimmerman verdict, if

In response to DOJ To Investigate Zimmerman – Still Not Interested In New Black Panther Threats: This is one of the more bizarre and frustrating aspects of the Zimmerman trial and its aftermath.  Zimmerman has been under constant death threats.

In response to Consider the Implications if Zimmerman Had Been Convicted: The other disturbing set of implications from the Zimmerman trial, and the angry reaction of “Justice for Trayvon” demonstrators to the verdict, goes back to the incident itself.  You’ve

One reason for the great proliferation of Internet movie review sites was that Web access gave fans of genre films a chance to correct what they viewed as decades of injustice from professional film critics.  The big-name critics didn’t really

Not since the fading days of the Occupy Wall Street movement have we seen the media take such pains to portray a protest movement as “mostly peaceful.”  The first few paragraphs of this Fox News report on the aftermath of

In response to Whatever Happened To The Concept Of Shame? : I’ve long been fascinated by the way our society has lost its appreciation for both humility and shame.  We don’t even really understand the meaning of the terms any

Closing arguments at the Zimmerman trial captured the overall tone of the entire epic saga.  The defense made sound arguments based in law and reason, while the prosecution hit the jury with emotional appeals to look into their hearts and

In response to Sharknado Blockbuster Stokes Passion, Controversy: Alas, Ace, it would seem the idea of “Sharknado” was far more broadly entertaining than the reality, because it somehow managed to draw only a million viewers, even though it became one

In response to Just Look At The Person Ahead Of You In The Checkout Line: Good point that programs of the sort Marino called for would be less necessary if we controlled use of the EBT cards more stringently on