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I stumbled upon a video titled “The Woman For Mitt Romney with Selma Blair” over at Funny or Die, Will Ferrell’s online home for humor. The premise? There is only one woman in America dumb enough to vote for the

Liberals would have you believe that so-called affirmative action in higher education was settled back in 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race-based admissions policies at the University of Michigan School of Law were, more or less, constitutional.

(AP) Can ‘Cloud Atlas’ survive Hollywood reincarnation?By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie WriterLOS ANGELESSusan Sarandon reported for work on “Cloud Atlas” midway through the shoot, in time to see a collection of far-flung film scenes that the cast and crew were viewing.

Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama in rural swing counties by 22 points, 59%-37%, according to a new bipartisan survey that questioned 600 likely voters in rural counties in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and

(AP) 2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prizeBy KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROMAssociated PressSTOCKHOLMTwo American researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger

A new study shows that nearly half of the jobs in Washington State’s economy are generated by Chinese imports and exports. The study, sponsored by the Washington Council on International Trade and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, found

There are several things that I can tell you about any given awards season: The shows and films I like probably will be snubbed. The awards telecast will have a number of sucker punches coming from my left. And the

The attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya dealt a huge blow to US intelligence operations because CIA agents and contractors were among the Americans evacuated afterward, The New York Times reported. The CIA’s intelligence targets in unstable Libya

(AP) ‘Homeland’ and ‘Modern Family’ win big at EmmysBy DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterThe post-Emmy champagne surely tasted sweet for the people at “Modern Family” and “Homeland,” but they needed only to look around the Nokia Theatre to see how quickly

When the “Occupy” movement began a year ago, many initially dismissed it as a gathering of harmless college students. But the late Andrew Breitbart saw in the movement professional left-wing anarchists and radicals who sought to use the “Occupy” protests

My Dear Friends, In light of, once again, the current crisis in regards to selective Free Speech – I wish to bring your attention to an article I wrote back in 2009. I do not care what your politics are,

In his now-infamous apology speech in Cairo on June 4th, 2009, the President said the following as part of his prepared remarks to the Muslim world. I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and

The young actor Henry Cavill (“Immortals,” “The Tudors”) has played a variety of characters during his short career, but his biggest role is still ahead of him. Next year, Cavill will don tights and star as Superman in the highly

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made the economy the center of his campaign, hoping for a repeat of the election of 1980, where Ronald Reagan unseated Jimmy Carter in a weak economy, or 1992, where Bill Clinton did the

NBC’s “Grimm” is a show defined by two dichotomies: duality of genre and a fusion of story styles. It functions as both a police procedural and fantasy/sci-fi thriller, while the installments unfold as both self-contained case-of-the-week dramas mixed with series-long

Variety: The TV Academy’s Governors Award will be presented to the organization behind “It Gets Better,” a movement designed to support LGBT youth with videos and other online content. Project co-founders Dan Savage and Terry Miller will receive the honor

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad gives lengthy TV interview to prove he’s OK Citibank settles investor lawsuit without admitting guilt Germany stages major neo-Nazi crackdown North Rhine-Westphalia Syria’s Bashar al-Assad gives lengthy TV interview to prove

In the overall scheme of things, who really cares what washed-up singers and race-card playing movie stars think about anything? Generally, they’re not particularly insightful; they’re fairly shallow and hopelessly, cluelessly liberal. However, Hollywood blabbermouths provide a perfect micro composite

Note to Michelle: don’t mess with the Golden Arches. Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week, where she told Leno that after winning her medal, she “splurged on an Egg McMuffin

Democrats are desperate to change the subject from their losing battle on Medicare to government control of health. GOP Senate Candidate Todd Akin made a ridiculous comment regarding his opinion on rape and abortion after which Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill

The Catholic News Agency reported that on Friday presumptive Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan called the recent “federal mandate that requires most employers to offer health insurance plans that offer contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs… [an] assault on our

This week, President Barack Obama made comments in which he advocated for an economy of shared prosperity, reminiscent of his comments during the 2008 campaign about “spreading the wealth around.”  Paul Ryan, on the other hand, commented about how America

The entire student staff of the University of Georgia “independent student newspaper,” The Red and Black, resigned en mass yesterday after returning to campus for the fall semester and discovering “that [in less than a month, The Red & Black

President Barack Obama on Thursday uttered the following utterly absurd thing: “I want to (bailout) manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.” Even before President Obama dramatically bumped up the auto bailout to $82 billion,

The Western is the groundwork for much of American cinema and storytelling. Westerns give us homegrown stories of good and evil, tales of love, vengeance, individualism, loss, hatred, fear and greed. All of these themes are thrust together to create

Last weekend saw “The Dark Knight Rises” reign as predicted. Faced with new competition, will Batman hold the top spot? This weekend’s predictions and revenue results go as follows: 1. “The Bourne Legacy” ($32 million) –  Replacing Matt Damon was

The new Will Ferrell-Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign” isn’t out to smite the Right or the Left. It has bigger targets in mind – the Citizens United case in general and the Koch brothers in particular. The film’s attack on

The new Will Ferrell-Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign” isn’t out to smite the Right or the Left. It has bigger targets in mind – the Citizens United case in general and the Koch brothers in particular. The film’s attack on

What are the requirements for being a Barack Obama appointee? Make sure that your ethics are questionable. Always be ready to be thrown under the bus if necessary. Make sure you leave quietly, so he can ignore the corrupt practices

Cass Sunstein administered the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Referred to as OIRA (Oh-eye-rah) in wonky academic circles, it is one of the most powerful behind-the-scenes jobs a person can have because it reviews nearly every regulation for

You can stop rolling over, Beethoven; science has confirmed what you would have guessed: all modern pop music sounds the same. Researchers in Spain discovered that the fundamental building blocks of music – melodies, chords, and sound types – are all becoming

“The Obama Effect” isn’t exactly raking in the cash at the box office. The new film, which follows a middle-aged man (Charles S. Dutton) who drops everything to support Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, has made a measly $110,000

(AP) Syria says will use chemical weapons if attackedBy PAUL SCHEMM and BEN HUBBARDAssociated PressBEIRUT, LebanonThe Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it

(AP) Consumer bureau to police credit reporting bureausBy The Associated PressNEW YORKThe companies that determine Americans’ credit scores are about to come under scrutiny by the country’s new consumer watchdog. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that it will