Gangs of New York. I didn’t expect to like this movie as much as I did. I realize that Scorsese takes some historical liberties with the plotline but everything about Tammany Hall was interesting to me. I know that the director had been thinking about making Gangs for a couple of decades and his...
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Miller’s Crossing. I always tell people that this is my favorite Coen Brothers movie and they usually think I’m nuts, but their 1990 release far surpasses everything they did before or since in the quality of its plot structure and dialogue. I just saw it for the sixth or seventh time and still am...
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FROM BROOKES NEWS US economy: storm clouds ahead What needs to be understood is that the so-called business cycle is a monetary phenomenon that presidents can do nothing about until the economics profession comes to understand that fact Professor John Quiggin gets it wrong on taxes and jobs The idea that any government cure...
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FROM BROOKES NEWS US economy: storm clouds ahead What needs to be understood is that the so-called business cycle is a monetary phenomenon that presidents can do nothing about until the economics profession comes to understand that fact Professor John Quiggin gets it wrong on taxes and jobs The idea that any government cure...
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Losing twice already isn’t enough for Democrat Christine Gregoire. She wants to drag the state of Washington through yet another counting of the votes, one that will probably go on until around Christmas. Obviously, she’s hoping that her party can somehow steal her enough votes that she’ll turn out the winner the third time...
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Finally… Great post, Denis. It’s about time that the “homosexual rights” scam is forced out into the open and exposed for what it is, not “homophobia”, but an attempt by 7% of the population to impose their values and life-style on the other 93%. Everyone knows that Margaret Mitchell, the Chief Justice of the...
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I’m not sure how seriously to take this particular survey, but it does not seem to bode well for the peace process in the Middle East, to say the least. A survey of the Arab world organized by the Al-Arabia network website after the death of Yasser Arafat, showed 73.72% want a Hamas representative...
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It didn’t take long for the ceasefire in Sudan to fall apart. Will the UN actually do anything to uphold the Security Council resolution they recently passed or will they sit idly by while the slaughter continues? KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Washington accused Sudanese rebels Wednesday of sparking the latest upsurge in violence in...
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Herbert London writes in The Washington Times, in a column entitled “Dumb, dumber, dumbest“, that America is going through a revolution in “dumbing down” via the moronic TV shows a lot of us watch. A lot of people have written that the high ratings that can be garnered by shows like Paris Hilton’s, Anna...
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! To all my American readers. And for those blessed with the faith may it be a holy day too. Australia is nearly a whole time zone ahead of the USA so you might well be reading this before your Thursday. Thanksgiving Day is of course a specifically American holiday. Australia does not...
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! To all my American readers. And for those blessed with the faith may it be a holy day too. Australia is nearly a whole time zone ahead of the USA so you might well be reading this before your Thursday. Thanksgiving Day is of course a specifically American holiday. Australia does not...
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? (hat tip Captains Quarters) SAN`A, Yemen  Yemeni authorities have released 113 militants belonging to the Al Qaeda network  including at least five once accused of involvement in the deadly bombing of the USS Cole after they recanted their extremist views, security officials said Thursday. The...
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This is getting more and more interesting all the time. From Reuters: KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s highest court on Thursday blocked the inauguration of the country’s Moscow-backed prime minister as president, giving a fresh impetus to his liberal opponent who has led street protests to overturn his election. The Supreme Court rejected official publication...
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The BBC has this: “The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sent a team of investigators into refugee camps in west Africa following the revelation that large numbers of children have been sexually exploited by aid workers there. The scale of the problem – revealed in an overview of a report by the...
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139304,00.html This article is another example of how far afield church-state jurisprudence has gotten. This isn’t news, but an example of what we’ve seen for a long time now. It’s gone beyond state endorsement of religion but prohibits private citizens functioning as private citizens from engaging in their own free exercise of religion. These...
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-spat23nov23,0,2105646,print.story?coll=sfla-news-broward “”People should be outraged, fuming, doing something to change this,” said Rhonda Gaynier, a New York attorney who said she was given a “breast exam” while flying out of Tampa in October. “It’s like we have no rights anymore.”" What did you expect was going to happen when the federal government took over...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/opinion/25thu3.html?ex=1259125200&en=403e027e1f174420&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt “Congress failed to revise the maximum grant to keep pace with rising costs. Left untouched for a decade, the aid formula is still capped at around $4,000 a year – far less than what it takes to support a college student.” Having a wife in college and not being that far out of...
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From The Jersusalem Post: A British-based charitable organization that Israel and the United States maintain is a front organization for Hamas is operating within the confines of British law, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, in his meeting with Straw Wednesday in Jerusalem, stressed the importance of stopping the...
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Things are heating up in the Ukraine over the disputed election there, with some even predicting a civil war. From The Telegraph: Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has called for a country-wide strike as part of a campaign to overturn disputed presidential election results. The call comes a day after the Central Election Commission declared...
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There is so much for us to be thankful for, but for the conservatives who enjoy a good laugh, this has been a truly bountiful year. We give thanks for the hypocritical left. The “share the wealth” caring nurturers who live in gated communities, whine about fossil-fuel pollution, think that public schools are just...
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