Nestled in the hills of Laguna Beach, CA overlooking the Orange County coastline, a slight hint of salt in the breeze as Gen Y TV spoke with documentary filmmaker and political commentator, Stephen K. Bannon. With his latest film, “The
After nearly a decade of treating the War on Terror as an act of hubris and greed perpetrated by the proxies of multi-billion-dollar corporations, Hollywood has found a new storyline. But in his August 26 piece for the Wall Street
This morning while on the Political Buzz panel for CNN we discussed the reported “booing” of the gay soldier who asked about DADT at last night’s debate. Considering the amount of print devoted to painting the entire crowd out to
Gregory Solman in CityArts Forum: The deserved box-office disaster of Sony’s Straw Dogs remake–the South, as well as everywhere else, rising up against this species of estranged Hollywood elitism–merits a variation on Variety‘s most famous headline: “Stix Nix Prix Pic.”
Alec, you need to stop treating American soldiers like they were members of your own family. They deserve better than that. Not content with achieving Father of the Year Emeritus status for his unique, outside-the-box parenting skills, Alec Baldwin spent
In an email dated January 27, 2011, Joe McGinniss, author of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, says that Random House lawyers have told him he has provided nothing more than “tawdry gossip” to substantiate “any of the
President Obama’s speech to the United Nations on September 21st struck at many targets in his tour d’ horizon but it was neither inspiring nor bold. He did indicate that the Iranian government has been unable to “demonstrate that its
Unprecedented is putting it mildly. A strong ally in the global war on terror, Libya’s former strongman, Moammar al-Gaddafi, renounced his weapons of mass destruction program after he saw America’s resolve and military power in Afghanistan and Iraq. He surrendered
From The Washington Post: The latest Obama plan “doesn’t produce any more in realistic savings than the plan they offered in April,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “They’ve filled in details, repackaged
Prepare to be horribly disappointed. One comment I read put it best: Too bad Frank Sinatra isn’t alive to kick his ass. ABC News: [On his radio show, Howard] Stern then asked Bennett about how America should deal with terrorists,
From the Associated Press: Obama’s proposal comes amid Democratic demands that Obama take a tougher stance against Republicans. And while the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public
Of all people to be taken in by the “we can’t win – all is lost!” talk, why you, El Cid? You have been fighting the Jihadists since the 1050s, and now that you have a chance to take them
Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: US Representative for California’s 25th District and Chairman of the House Armed Services Commission, Congressman Buck McKeon concludes today’s show discussing the ongoing defense budget debate. The military is currently facing cuts to each of
Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer is never one to be warm and fuzzy. But he has laid down the gauntlet in his piece over at The National Interest. Scheuer says its time to stop lying to ourselves: we didn’t win
Over the past few days I’ve watched anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore make the rounds on various interview shows so he can push his new book “Here Comes Trouble.” In many of the interviews, the Oscar-winner discussed the various threats and
Each of us has a unique experience of September 11th. I was in my last few days of summer vacation before heading back to college in Scotland. For me, the cultural response to 9/11 experienced was British. I arrived back
Filmmaker Michael Moore, has just published a new book. It’s called “Here Comes Trouble” and (with his permission) the UK Guardian last week published an excerpt. The Guardian extract focused on the period after Moore’s famous 2003 Oscar acceptance speech
Read to serve… America’s military K-9 units have received a lot of attention in recent months. Who could forget about Cairo, a Belgian Malinois, who was part of the team that raided Osama Bin Laden? The dog became so famous
As America passed with solemn tribute the murder of 3000 citizens 10 years after September 11th, 2001, social media networks, like Facebook, were filled with tributes, thanks, passages from the bible, and pleas. Amongst those pleas, that we spend no
During a semi-bi-annual clean-up of my study, I came across an undated scrap of Washington Post on which Brookings’ Robert Kagan briefly but thoroughly excoriated George Will for advocating US withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan. It apparently dates back back
On the same day we heard reports that the Obama Administration wants to draw down troop levels in Iraq from 45,000 to a dangerously low 3,000 by the end of the year, the Washington Post published an article titled “Al-Qaeda
A decade after 9/11 it is hoped America’s security establishment better understands what threats we face of which the attacks of 9/11 were one facet. The answer to that question remains incomplete. After the end of the Cold War we
As I watch documentary recollections of 9/11, I remain of the opinion that it will be a nearly impossible task to contextualize the atrocity in any form of popular culture. That’s not to say it can’t happen, but to do
A decade after the jihadi strikes against America’s military and financial centers at the hands of al-Qaida, the question remains: Have we won the war? In the ongoing, debate, we see two camps. One stating that we were defeating the
President Barack Obama and first lady Michele Obama visited Arlington National Cemetery, on Saturday, where they paid tribute to members of the military killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and met with a family of visitors.
