Washington has a strange new bird — the Libya Hawk. It has been seen alighting in potentially dangerous numbers on the Right side of the political spectrum, neoconservative wavelength. It appears to be a mutation of the War Hawk and
So it goes when Hollywood begins to suspect it has made a mistake. — New York Times Not a moral mistake, mind you. A PR mistake. A tactical mistake. Oops, our ties to a ruthless dictator’s son might look bad!
Patrick Goldstein, the Minister of Hollywood Disinformation at the L.A. Times, is obsessed with convincing you that leftist dominance of Hollywood is a whiny conservative myth. Big Hollywood‘s indefatigable John Nolte, among others, has taken down Goldstein in numerous columns
Alfred Hitchcock was reputed to have said, “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.” While this enigmatic statement can be read and interpreted several different ways, one thing’s for certain: implicit is the
On a day when Libyan forces unleashed what is being called “their fiercest counterattack yet” on anti-government rebels, concern is mounting over radical forces that can capitalize on the unrest. That makes decisions for the United States and others hoping
Charles Koch in today’s Wall Street Journal: Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least $3.8 trillion this year–double what it was 10 years
Last night’s Oscar show was so stunningly awful that even though I had to be up and out of the house by 4 AM this morning, the stink of the whole program couldn’t be allowed to stand before I hit
I’m thankful that more and more people and their governments seem to be finding their voice as they speak out against the blight that is radical Islam. It remains, however, very much a mixed bag–more on that in a minute.
It was nearly surreal to be a veteran Ikhwan-watcher yesterday. The Drudge Report ran a headline feature from Der Spiegel on the most influential Sunni cleric in the world today, Yuself al-Qaradawi. The article was picked up on talk radio,
Abdicating their legislative responsibilities, Wisconsin Senate Democrats are huddling at the Clocktower Resort in Rockford, Illinois. Democrats were poised to lose the vote on an important bill to fix Wisconsin’s fiscal crisis, so they picked up their legislative ball and
Last month, President Barack Obama signed a highly publicized Executive Order demanding a government-wide review of existing laws to remove regulations that stifle job creation and hamper America’s economy. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is considering a new alcohol labeling requirement
Previously, Patrick Poole reported on an upcoming conference at the Virginia Military Institute celebrating the Islamic invasion and brutal 781-year occupation of Spain entitled “711-2011: East meets West“, and then on the cover-up when they changed “celebrated” to “commemoration.” And
News of the death of legendary composer John Barry got me perusing through his astoundingly prolific repertoire of classic film scores. Although he is most famous for scoring the many James Bond films (even if his role in penning the
CLASSIFIED: TOP SECRET THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 17, 1983 National Security Decision Directive Number 75 U.S. RELATIONS WITH THE USSR (S) U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union will consist of three elements: eternal resistance to Soviet imperialism; internal pressure
Fjordman writes in today with a story from Spiegel Online that notes the concerted efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad men of the hour, to look normal and non-threatening for benefit of swooning world media. Spiegel begins by describing the
Over the past two years, Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss has undertaken a campaign for civility in political discourse. To aide in achieving this civility, he launched the Dreyfuss Initiative in 2010, the proximate of goal of which was to promote
You have to love the American spirit of ingenuity. And yes, it will be available thru Apple soon. Just don’t use it on your unruly neighbors. The UK’s Daily Mail reports: “An iPhone app that tracks down the Taliban has
In order to save himself some time and embarrassment, months ago Kevin Smith should have sent fruit baskets to right-wingers like myself with a polite note attached: Would you please get outraged over my new film “Red State?” I could
It’s impossible to work in the theatre industry and not have colleagues, business partners and life-long friends who are gay. I have always viewed this fact as one of the most wonderful and enriching dynamics of the theatre community. It’s
There are people who harbor strong political beliefs. Then there are nuts. Insanity and delusion are not in the realm of political discourse. They should stay in the domain of mental illness and perverse criminality from whence they originate. Period.
There are two new areas of operation in which I’ve had a particular interest in setting up SAFE operations. One is Nogales, the other is the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. The most pressing of the two, for a variety of
When 2010 started dismally at the multiplex, it was difficult to imagine the excellent movies that would come out later in the year. However, with smart summer flicks like “Inception” and “Toy Story 3” and a slew of solid films
The great social experimentation ground for America since WWII is the US Armed Forces. (The force that is charged with perhaps the Nation’s most important mission….to fight and win our wars.) And once again it is challenged to figure out
This week in the Daily Variety there was an article by Ted Johnson entitled “Biz Need Louder Voice to Fight Piracy.” In that article Mr. Johnson makes a case that the entertainment industry needs to be stronger and more vocal
It may not be a mere coincidence that, as the government has proceeded to further shift, over recent years, to an economy based on consumption of goods, our education system has continued to decline. The basic Keynesian view of stimulus-
