In case you’ve been in a coma over the last few weeks, we’ve had a bit of problem on the Gulf Coast. While the oil leak that developed after the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up is indeed a disaster, this
When otherwise intelligent writers like the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson lose their minds, one has the audacity to hope that Michele Obama and her Obesity Police will add Kool-Aid to the list of sugary drinks they’d like to ban. With
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane proves once again that while the denizens of Hollywood might be good at acting, or singing, or TV and movie making, they most certainly have no clue about history or contemporary politics. They are utterly
The idea of citizens writing the news is not a new one. In fact, it is an idea that is as old as the newspaper itself. There were no professional journalists around 50 BC when Julius Caesar, serving as the
Why would a known, highly applauded, and much-admired star like Tom Hanks go out of his way to harm himself and therefore stain his product, the mini-series for television, Pacific? Why would he toss off an incendiary crack about racism
Heaven help Richard Kim. That’s not my wish, it’s his–expressed in a piece entitled “Loose Tea” he wrote for the venerable left-wing magazine, The Nation. Honoring the liberal playbook by attacking the Tea Party on everything except substance, Kim starts
Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to the United States of America in 1831 on assignment from the French government to study the American prison system. One result of those travels was a rather prophetic study of American society, “Democracy in America.”
Short answer: no… but then again, we seriously doubt that we’re in any greater danger either. The new policy is both revocable and subject to review and modification if circumstances so warrant. The questions we want to explore are the
Russia Today: The Dutch airline KLM and Germany’s Lufthansa have carried out test flights through the ash cloud. They reported no damage to their aircraft, however air space in around 20 countries remains closed, affecting millions of people’s travel plans.
So, I got another letter from Deepak Chopra’s son, Gotham – regarding my response to his previous missive about my Gregalogue on his dad claiming his meditations caused a recent quake. HIS NEW letter is REALLY long, so, I’ll just
On the issues that matter most, the president is always somewhere else. Exhibit A) For most Americans, the economy is the most pressing issue. We just got last week’s jobs report, and it wasn’t good. For the second week in
On Saturday morning, I was stopped short by a text message- a plane crash had killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others. Immediately, I called and asked the location… Russia. With tragic irony, the Polish Presidential delegation was wiped out
President Obama is convening a Global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington beginning on Monday. “The purpose… would be to achieve the highest levels of nuclear security, which the president believes is essential for enhanced international security and for the peaceful
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AP: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for
Almost fifty years ago, in the film journal Sight and Sound for Winter 1964/65, critic Roger Hudson wrote that the talent of motion picture production designers “is often overlooked, except where it is the greatest element in a film’s success,
In 1964, little-known actor Michael Caine was being evicted — again — and needed a place to stay — again. His friend Sean Connery, starting out in similar circumstances, had reached the pinnacle of the acting world as James Bond.
By Christmas of 1964, nowhere was safe for thirty-four-year-old Sean Connery. It started with the fan letters — fifteen hundred per week. Then came the mobs rushing gates at movie premieres and personal appearances — screaming, fainting, tearing at his
Because the legacy media focused on the persona of Barack Obama and the “historic” nature of his candidacy, rather than anything substantive, it willfully neglected to thoroughly vet his specific campaign promises. Like Washington Irving’s character Rip Van Winkle, the
It’s the kind of movie “best” lists were made for, and over the years it’s been on plenty of them: Best Movie Quote, Best Song, Best Villain, Most Thrills. It boasts both the most famous car in movie history and
Victor Davis Hanson: Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time Magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is
[youtube ZlB7NTOg-9U nolink] In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama’s Approval Rating, Space Shuttle Program, Iran Sanctions, Israel, Russia, Chris Matthews, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Ayers, Rubik’s Cube, Al Sharpton, and Roman Polanski. [Ed. Note: Starting the week of
In the midst of the radical social atmosphere of the 1960s, a group of Chicagoans, Ron Grzywinski, Milton Davis, James Fletcher, and Mary Houghton, came together to found South Shore Bank in the 1973 with a goal to provide loans
Ever feel that you’re trapped inside a lunatic asylum, where all the normal rules of logic and discourse have been turned on their heads, and screaming nutbags roam the halls, hurling imprecations at imaginary enemies? A place where up is
Today is generally a day of liberation. Several nations declared independence today. The United States banned the importation of slaves in 1807. In 1861, Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serfs in Russia. Bear with us, but we think this is
