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Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

New ‘SNL’ Addition Leslie Jones is Hilarious; Now Left Wants Her Silenced Leslie Jones was hired only after there was an uproar over SNL’s all-white cast. In her debut, though, Jones proves she’s no affirmative action hire. This is excellent:

Indian Media Goes Wild Hoping Modi's "Selfie" Spells His Doom

Indian Media Goes Wild Hoping Modi's "Selfie" Spells His Doom

The day after Mumbai book-makers stopped taking bets on India’s Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi winning that country’s ongoing national elections because his chances are thought so low, elitist and big media opponents of India’s surging conservative Bharatiya Janata Party leader

The Obamacare Question That Has Democrats Terrified

The Obamacare Question That Has Democrats Terrified

With just 191 days until the Nov. 4 midterm elections, nervous Democrats are scrambling to find an effective answer to the Obamacare question they may fear the most: “Where is the $2,500 in health insurance savings President Obama and Democrats

Indiana Unveils the Pence Index for Education Standards

Indiana Unveils the Pence Index for Education Standards

A mere parent or citizen–even a college professor who sees the effects of college unready freshmen every year–might lament that the new Indiana college- and career-ready draft standards are simply copied-and-pasted Common Core being sold by the political and educational

The Land Grabbing Feds

The Land Grabbing Feds

In October 1980, Gerald Chaffin threw gasoline on his wood-frame home and burned it to the ground. He did it at the behest of the federal government. His crime? The BLM controlled the land on which his home had been

Not Another Tom Hanks Cold War Movie

Not Another Tom Hanks Cold War Movie

The last time Tom Hanks dipped into the Cold War we got 2007’s Charlie Wilson’s War, a marginal piece of Oscar-bait that tried to claim a boozing, womanizing Democrat Congressman had won the Cold War … and President Ronald Reagan

New York Times: Obama Inspiring Young People to Become Consultants

New York Times: Obama Inspiring Young People to Become Consultants

President Barack Obama famously ran to inspire young Americans with his message of “hope and change,” but the president’s administration has been infamous for rewarding cronies (see: Solyndra) and punishing enemies (see: IRS). The New York Times asserts this has

Charlton Heston Gets a Postage Stamp

Charlton Heston Gets a Postage Stamp

The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that during a ceremony at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Oscar-winner Charlton Heston became only the 18th person honored in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Legends of Hollywood” series. The first class stamp is

One Step Closer to Nevada's New Mount Reagan

One Step Closer to Nevada's New Mount Reagan

A mountain peak in Nevada is one step closer to being officially named Mount Reagan after a House committee voted to approve the naming. Nevada small government advocate Chuck Muth of Citizen Outreach Foundation has been trying to get one

Run Jeb, Run!

Run Jeb, Run!

Saturday, February 28, 1981 “…A call…reported a boat load of Haitians approaching our shores. I’m all for opening the door to refugees from totalitarianism but this is more complicated. These are just people who believe they can have a better life

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, for President?

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, for President?

Sheryl Sandberg for President?  Okay, we’re not there, at least not yet, but consider this headline from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg might ‘Lean In’ to political office.”  As reporter Carla Marinucci notes, “The valley buzz in recent months

The Reagan Vision: Made in California

The Reagan Vision: Made in California

On Monday, November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered an election-eve speech in which he sought to clinch his relationship with the voters. As he said of Americans, “They seek a vision of a better America, a vision of society that