Author’s note: In honor of Halloween, I’m putting up reviews of horror films. Trick or treat, my friends! Black Sabbath (1963) is a trilogy of macabre tales given brief, blackly humorous introductions by the inimitable Boris Karloff, who stars in one of them. Each tale is intensely atmospheric. The best segment by far is...
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November 4 is getting close, and unless something dramatic happens it looks like Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. will become the next President of the United States. It’s a certainty he will have both a Democrat House of Representatives and a Democrat Senate. In a worst-case scenario (at least for those who treasure individual liberty...
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United States Senator Ted Stevens was convicted Monday on seven counts of failing to report gifts. Stevens, a senior United States Senator from Alaska and the longest serving Republican in the Senate, had been accused not reporting tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from the VECO Corporation including free house remodeling. Bill...
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced this week the release of a report from the President’s Identity Theft Task Force on progress the federal government has made in addressing identity theft since the Task Force’s Strategic Plan was released last year. Highlights of the report include...
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Damn. The longer I live in Mexico, the more I realize that I know less about it than people who don’t. Apparently it is a far simpler country than the one I live in, being summed up by pat assertions, neat statistics, and confident descriptions often bearing little resemblance to anything I see. Curious:...
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Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Barack Obama and Christian voters. (See part 1: God and Barack Obama.) In 2000 and 2004, it was the churchgoing moral-religious “values voters†that made the difference for George W. Bush. Barack Obama hopes to peel off just enough of those voters. What...
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On Monday, stock markets across Asia resumed their downward slide, and Japan’s Nikkei stock index fell to lows not seen since October 1982 as the Japanese government’s former measures to stop the credit and stock crisis have been seen by stockholders as not sufficient. Japan’s prime minister, Taro Aso, spoke to government officials and...
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By Special Guest Columnist Craig J. Cantoni Almost all of the myriad political philosophies can be distilled to two competing ideas: Individualism holds that people own their bodies and the fruits of their labor, and that they can do what they want with both as long as they don’t harm anyone else. Under this...
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