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Daily Gut: The Mathematics of Terror

So I was never very good at word problems, but here’s a simple brain teaser even an idiot like me can solve. What’s worth saving: thousands of innocent people, or one evil jackass? The answer…. It’s a trick question, and

Daily Gut: The New Extremism

So President Obama faced a few hecklers yesterday, who went after him about the “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Take a gander, gander takers: Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Now I, for one, think it’s awesome to see

Steven Spielberg Pays Tribute to Veterans Past & Present

The second high-profile name attached to HBO’s “The Pacific” was interviewed by CNSNews and would’ve distinguished himself with his classy approach to these questions even if his counterpart hadn’t defamed both the war in the Pacific and the War on

REVIEW: 'Lifted' — The Anti-War Movie for Everyone

In my role as Executive Director of Ride 2 Recovery, a mental and physical rehabilitation program for injured veterans that makes a difference in the lives of those who come thru our program (more info: Ride2Recovery.com), I am asked to

Is USA Today the Obama Administration's Next FOX News?

The dust-up started with a USA Today editorial entitled “Our view on war on terror: National security team fails to inspire confidence.” It featured this photo of a confused National Intelligence Director named Dennis Blair. The bite was in the

How Many Fights Will Obama Pick With America?

Politics is a game of addition – successful politics anyway. Great leaders, when faced with a divided electorate, not to mention difficult economic times, use a limited agenda to forge consensus out of broken paradigms. Once they achieve an initial

Garry Wills: How the Bomb Changed the Presidency

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Garry Wills writes: “George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change . . . [but] the momentum of accumulating powers in the

ONE YEAR GONE: The George W. Bush Era In Movies

It’s been a year since George W. Bush left office. Do you miss him yet? I do. For all his foibles – utter inability to explain his policies to the American public, bending over backwards for bipartisanship with Democrats, foolish

ONE YEAR GONE: Hope and Change – Miss Bush Yet?

One of the things I think most about is national security. Oh sure, my posts here at Big Hollywood are usually snarky takes on the idiocy we witness daily from clueless Hollywoodites like James Cameron, but national security issues feature

ONE YEAR GONE: Welcome to the Obama Era of Awesomeness

We can look back today and see that George W. Bush’s departure from Washington on 1/20/09 was when the oceans stopped rising, the Earth began healing and, for Hollywood, when an unprecedented era of right-wing oppression and stifling conservative ideological

It's Your Principles, Stupid

The polls have closed, the votes are counted, and Massachusetts voters have sent the “Scott heard ’round the World”. All day long, pundits have been giving their assessment regarding why Scott Brown would win. All day long, too many of

The Wrap: Cameron Claims Anti-American 'Avatar' Isn't

To fully appreciate the absurdity of the statements uttered by “Avatar’s” writer/director James Cameron in defense of his film the other night, you have to get a feel for the setting. The Q&A took place during an industry screening of

War Through Weakness: How the Terrorists Win

For those who were expecting the election of Barack Obama to yield a peace dividend in the war on terror, the resurgence of Al-Qaeda has come as a surprise. Obama’s obsequious diplomacy was supposed to be a tonic to the

The Left Goes to War Against Science, Surrenders on Terror

Two ongoing trends I chronicled during 2009 highlight an ironic situation: Leftists remain tough on their domestic political opponents, while lax when it comes to our real common enemies. As we recently saw with the Christmas airplane-bombing attempt, leftists seem

ZINN 101: A Radical's History of the United States

Twelve years ago in his breakout performance as an arrogant young genius in Good Will Hunting, struggling fresh-faced actor Matt Damon sneered at his Boston psychiatrist for “surrounding yourself with all the wrong f__kin’ books. You wanna read a real

Political Correctness, Ft. Hood, and Hollywood

Almost before the echo of gunfire from the massacre at Ft. Hood had faded, the news media launched a pre-emptive rationalization for the slaughter committed by Muslim traitor Nidal Malik Hasan. To divert attention from the shooter’s inconvenient name (“I