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RIP: Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' Dies at 85

Associated Press: After departing Hollywood, Parker got into real estate with his wife, Marcella, whom he had married in 1960. He bought and sold property, built hotels (including the elegant Fess Parker’s Wine Country Inn & Spa in Los Olivos

'Schoolhouse Barack'

Remember Schoolhouse Rock, that civic-minded Saturday morning cartoon short from the 1970s? It’s time to update it for the Obama Era. “I’m Just a Law” LAW (singing): I’m just a law, yes I’m only a law, And I don’t know

New CATO Study Shows Educators Lie

As any exasperated advocate of commonsense education reform can tell you, liberals and their allies in the teachers unions will, like drunken spammers, never cease to declaim on how “PUBLIC EDUCATION NEEDS MORE MONEYS LOL.” Yet, as highlighted in the

Why Larry Kudlow Must Run

The prospect of CNBC analyst Larry Kudlow seeking the Republican and Conservative Party nominations to oppose Sen. Chuck Schumer has become a cause among Tea Party folks, Conservatives, Republicans and many on Wall Street. Not since James L. Buckley won

Happy Stimulus Day! One Year's Worth of Waste

No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain The Obama peeps are actually trying to celebrate the one year anniversary of the $862 billion “drive us into perpetual debt” bill. Biden

Our Time for Choosing

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. Ronald Reagan spoke

Palin, Perry a New Breed of Western-style Conservatism

Super Bowl Sunday in Texas. You’d think football-centric Texans would be preparing for the big game. Beer buys, card table set-ups of chips and dip, backyard BBQs firing up. Politics definitely not on the menu. But you’d be wrong. This

Hollywood's Leftist Standard on Biographies

Who doesn’t like a good biography movie? In Hollywood they’re called bio pics and they often do very well at the box office, especially when the subject has a compelling life story. Of course, filmmakers are like any other type

Sidney Poitier: To Sir, With Love

I met Sidney Poitier for the first time in the summer of 1994. He was starring in the television film, Children of the Dust. I played a supporting role in that project, a character who just happened to be married

ONE YEAR GONE: George W. Bush…Idiot.

One year ago today President Bush left the White House. It’s been said before, but I think on this anniversary it bears repeating. George W. Bush is an idiot. That’s right. He’s a dolt. A moron. A cowboy. An anti-intellectual.

Tea Party Leaders See Movement Becoming a Potent Force

As the Tea Party movement approaches its first “birthday”, the leadership is taking it to new levels. The metamorphosis, which has been deliciously organic, has seen it go from street protests, to active demonstrations to serious political action. All along

Welcome to the Fight: We Are All Spartacus Now

Andrew Breitbart has already welcomed you all to Big Journalism. Now I’d like to add my voice to his. As you can see from our logo, Big Journalism will be a throwback in spirit to the freewheeling moxie of the