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Gerard Baker, the American editor and the assistant editor of the Times of London, has answered the question: Can one laugh at Barack Obama? His piece, entitled "He ventured forth to bring light to th...
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Published: Jul 25, 2008
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The Indian city of Bangalore was rocked by at least seven small explosions. Between person and three people are so far dead and fifteen to twenty are wounded. The blasts occurred between 2:30 PM and 4...
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Published: Jul 25, 2008
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama made a speech before Berlin's Victory Monument in Tiergaten Park before tens of thousands of enthusiastic Germans. This is further proof that Barack Obama is far mo...
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Published: Jul 24, 2008
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Former Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell claimed, in a recent radio interview, that not only have aliens been visiting the Earth for the past sixty years since the Roswell incident, but that Earth g...
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Published: Jul 24, 2008
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So why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi so against opening up new territory for the drilling of oil and natural gas? Her stance, which is shared by Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid, would seem to be a ...
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Published: Jul 24, 2008
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Vanity Fair has apparently taken up the challenge of trying to craft the most boring, unfunny, and offensive cover ever on a mainstream magazine. Unlike the New Yorker, the Vanity Fair McCain cover wi...
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Published: Jul 23, 2008
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The National Enquirer is reporting that former Senator, former Presidential candidate twice over, former Vice Presidential candidate and possible running mate for Barack Obama has been caught in a Los...
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Published: Jul 23, 2008
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The latest Hollywood film star to be caught behaving badly is Batman himself, aka Christian Bale. Christian Bale is accused of assaulting his mother, Jenny, and sister, Sharon, in a hotel suit at Park...
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Published: Jul 22, 2008
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Serbian security forces have captured accused war criminal fugitive Radovan Karadzic. Radovan Karadzic had been hiding out in a suburb of Belgrade, posing as a doctor of "alternative medicine", wearin...
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Published: Jul 22, 2008
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Another media figure has gotten himself into trouble over something he said on the air. Only this time it was not about race. Fiery radio talk show host Michael Savage has apparently insulted children...
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Published: Jul 21, 2008
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A US Air Force B-52 heavy bomber has crashed in the waters off the island of Guam. The B-52, which carries a crew of six, was en route to Guam from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
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Published: Jul 21, 2008
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Tru Blood, HBO's upcoming series, features a race of the closet vampires who are liberated from the need to snack on human blood by a synthetic variety known as tru blood. Naturally there is a Vampire...
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Published: Jul 20, 2008
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If the Vision for Space Exploration survives the coming change of administrations, if the myriad technical challenges of returning to the Moon are met and overcome, and if the project is adequately fu...
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Published: Jul 19, 2008
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Decades ago, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were first walking on the Moon, a panel of experts called the Space Task Group was putting together recommendations for what America should do in spac...
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Published: Jul 19, 2008
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A perfect blending of two great culinary traditions.
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Published: Jul 18, 2008
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The Dark Knight begins about a year after Batman Begins. Gotham City is already slowly changing from the nightmare urbanscape of the first movie into something like. The Batman and his relentless camp...
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Published: Jul 18, 2008
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One of the most anticipated films for next year is Termination Salvation, the latest in the long running franchise that started with the first Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1984. The Termin...
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Published: Jul 17, 2008
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The infamous tape, in which Jesse Jackson was overheard offering to "cut his n#ts off", referring to Barack Obama, continues to cause trouble for the civil rights leader. A newly released part of the ...
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Published: Jul 17, 2008
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Just in time to teach the folks at The New Yorker about how to do true political satire, the folks at JibJab.Com have come out with a new animated video "Time for Some Campaignin," sung to the tune of...
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Published: Jul 16, 2008
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The ACLU and the Transportation Safety Administration are in an argument over how many people are on the controversial terrorist watch list. The ACLU claims that the list has over a million people. Th...
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Published: Jul 16, 2008
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Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist responsible for the murder of three Israeli civilians, including a four year old girl, has been released by Israeli authorities along with four Hezbollah terrorists ...
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Published: Jul 16, 2008
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In preparation for his foreign trip, Senator Barack Obama, candidate for President of the United States, laid out the latest version of his grand strategy. His speech was one part political screed, on...
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Published: Jul 15, 2008
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Saving Grace, the religiously themed police drama starring Holly Hunter as the hard charging, hard living, hard drinking Oklahoma City detective Grace Hanadarko began its second season on July 14th. G...
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Published: Jul 15, 2008
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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, has accused of causing the collapse of Indymac Bank, the second biggest bank failure in American history. Senator Schumer has denied causing the run on I...
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Published: Jul 14, 2008
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A well-known magazine has on its cover a depiction of Barack Obama as an Al Qaeda Iman, complete with robes and turban, and Michelle Obama as a gun totting terrorist from the 1970s. Which right wing h...
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Published: Jul 14, 2008
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Cynthia McKinney, once a Democratic member of the United States Congress, has won the nomination of the American Green Party for President of the United States. She will be running on a ticket with po...
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Published: Jul 13, 2008
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Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, who play President George W. Bush and Colin Powell respectively in an upcoming film, W, about the President's life, were arrested during a bar fight in a Shrevep...
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Published: Jul 13, 2008
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Tony Snow, who served two Presidents named Bush and an erudite writer and giver of editorial opinion, has died, having lost his three year battle with cancer. Tony Snow's death is sadness for anyone w...
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Published: Jul 12, 2008
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Dr. Michael DeBakey, who was a pioneer in the art and science of heart surgery, has passed away. Ironically, Michael DeBakey died after suffering from an aortic dissection, a condition he pioneered th...
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Published: Jul 12, 2008
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The Chinese government has ordered restaurants to remove dog meat from the menu to avoid offending the sensibilities of foreigners during the Beijing Olympics. One is reminded how hard it is to steer ...
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Published: Jul 11, 2008
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Phil Gramm, an economic advisor to John McCain and himself a former Senator and Presidential candidate, made the sort of gaffe that involves telling an unpleasant truth. Gramm decried gloom and doom t...
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Published: Jul 10, 2008
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Barack Obama recently confirmed why many people find him off-putting when he admonished Americans to learn Spanish as a second language. At the same time he dismissed the idea that there was a problem...
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Published: Jul 10, 2008
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Despite protestations to the contrary, the Reverend Jesse Jackson clearly does not like Barack Obama. Jesse Jackson violated one of the primary rules of politics, to never say anything that one would ...
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Published: Jul 10, 2008
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T. Boone Pickens seems an unlikely man to be a leader of an alternative energy revolution. Dapper, silver haired, and with a Texas drawl that can be cut with a knife, T. Boone Pickens is a Texas oil m...
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Published: Jul 09, 2008
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The Iran missile test, which include the launch of the Shahab-3, which is capable of delivering a one ton warhead over 1240 miles, has caused slightly different responses in the Presidential candidate...
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Published: Jul 09, 2008
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Over 60 years after the end of World War II, perhaps the last Nazi war criminal, Aribert Heim, known as "Dr. Death", may still be alive and in hiding in Argentina. Israeli's chief Nazi hunter, Efraim...
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Published: Jul 09, 2008
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Richard Nixon, I think, famously said that the secret to political success was to play to the base during the primaries, but then tack to the center during the general election. Barack Obama seems to ...
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Published: Jul 08, 2008
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Hancock, the recent super hero movie starring Will Smith, relies on an unexpected plot twist to hold the interest of the audience. After having set up the situation of Hancock as the drunken, misanthr...
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Published: Jul 07, 2008
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When the news that the classic SF film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, first came out, I speculated that the Cold War message of the original was going to be replaced by a War on Terror one. I was wro...
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Published: Jul 06, 2008
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Hancock, starring Will Smith as the title character, has as its premise the following: What if Superman was a misanthropic drunk with a bad fashion sense and a sack full of issues who cared nothing ab...
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Published: Jul 04, 2008
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At Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address, African American singer Rene Marie was scheduled to sing the National Anthem. She didn't do that, exactly. The tune was there, but the wo...
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Published: Jul 02, 2008
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Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, is certainly not a man to think small. A recent story in the BBC suggests that President Sarkozy intends to use the current French Presidency of the ...
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Published: Jul 02, 2008
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Ten years ago from the writing of this, Steven Spielberg proved once again why he is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time by releasing Saving Private Ryan. There may be better war...
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Published: Jul 01, 2008
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Former General Wesley Clark, an Obama supporter who is often mentioned as a potential Vice President, stunned the world recently when he attacked John McCain's military service on Face the Nation. Wes...
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Published: Jul 01, 2008
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Dear Cornelius: I'm writing to you from the eve of Independence Day in the Year of our Lord (as you would have put it) 2008. I am your direct descendent through your oldest son James.
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Published: Jun 30, 2008
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The problem with Wanted is that the entire premise falls apart if one stops for just a moment to examine it. The movie has enough gun fights, impossible stunts, and special effects to try to distract ...
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Published: Jun 28, 2008
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Congressman William Delahunt (D) Mass recently said something that should get him censured by the Congress, if not outright expelled. During a Congressional hearing, he Delahunt and the Vice President...
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Published: Jun 27, 2008
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North Korea has submitted a declaration of its nuclear activities to China. China in turn will share this information with the other members of the six country group, including the United States, Sout...
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Published: Jun 26, 2008
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John McCain, as part of his energy policy, has proposed a three hundred million dollar prize to the team that comes up with an improved car battery suitable for a hybrid or an electric car. Barack Oba...
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Published: Jun 25, 2008
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Barack Obama, taking note that some evangelical voters are somewhat leery of John McCain, has been attempted to reach out to these same voters. Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family and an eva...
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Published: Jun 24, 2008
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A recent poll asked people in Great Britain whom they would opt to bring back from the dead. It should not be any great surprise that Elvis topped the list, followed by Princess Diana and Marilyn Monr...
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Published: Jun 23, 2008
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David Freddoso is publishing a book entitled The Case Against Barak Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate. It will apparently be the first critical book abou...
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Published: Jun 23, 2008
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Like a lot of other people, I first encountered George Carlin by listening to his breakout album, Class Clown, back in the 70s when I was young and had the devil in me. And the devil came in the form ...
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Published: Jun 23, 2008
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Get Smart, a creation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, was the sitcom answer to James Bond. Spies seem to proliferate during the 1960s, from Napoleon Solo in The Man from Uncle to Bill Cosby's Alexander ...
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Published: Jun 22, 2008
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The last ten minutes of the likely last Battlestar Galactica episode for 2008 took a nuclear bomb to the entire premise of the series. Those ten minutes were a kick in the gut from which the viewer wi...
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Published: Jun 19, 2008
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Moveon.Org has produced one of the most shameless political ads since Lyndon Johnson put a little girl plucking a daisy underneath a nuclear bomb. The ad depicts a young woman and her baby, Alex and s...
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Published: Jun 18, 2008
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The Democrats, from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, have a rote response to current, skyrocketing energy costs. "We can't drill our way out of this." ...
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Published: Jun 18, 2008
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There are certain movies that right away one knows one will never willingly watch. Sometimes it takes a close look at the trailer to determine this. Other times a little more research is required; re...
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Published: Jun 17, 2008
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No Democrat has won the state of Texas during a Presidential race since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Current polling data indicates that 2008 should be no different. John McCain leads Barack Obama by about 1...
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Published: Jun 16, 2008
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The Progressive Book Club has been launched with the idea of promoting left wing books and ideas through on an Internet web site. It will combine the aspects of a traditional book club and an Internet...
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Published: Jun 16, 2008
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Recently Senator Barack Obama demonstrated once again why he should not try to ad lib. Or at least should he try to do so, he ought to find better lines and practice them. Obama is no Sean Connery. He...
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Published: Jun 16, 2008
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One would have thought that after the train wreck that was director Ang Lee's Hulk movie, Hollywood would have hesitated to return to the franchise so soon. But The Incredible Hulk, succeeds by return...
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Published: Jun 15, 2008
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The Barack Obama campaign has launched a new website, called Fight the Smears, that are supposed to counter unfair accusations that have been launched against Barack Obama, his family, or campaign.
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Published: Jun 12, 2008
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Senator John McCain is getting tired of taking questions about his opposition to drilling for oil at ANWR. His response, which has become rote, is that drilling at ANWR would be like drilling at the G...
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Published: Jun 12, 2008
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NASA's Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) was blasted into orbit on board a Delta II rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at 12:05 PM eastern. The GLAST separated from the Delta II seventy five mi...
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Published: Jun 11, 2008
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The Barack Obama Campaign has so far refused to release Senator Obama's birth certificate. This refusal has struck a lot of observers of the political scene as rather odd. Unlike tax or medical record...
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Published: Jun 10, 2008
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Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, two women linked to Bill Clinton, are back in the news. They have opened a new business charging viewers $1.99 to visit a website detailing their adventures with the ...
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Published: Jun 10, 2008
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Film director Spike Lee, of Do the Right Thing and She's Gotta Have It, has picked a fight with fellow film director Clint Eastwood, of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. It seems like a ...
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Published: Jun 10, 2008
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The news that the film Brokeback Mountain, about the star crossed romance between two male sheep herders, is going to be made into an opera offered me a question: What other movies would make great op...
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Published: Jun 09, 2008
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For the first time in over thirty five years, the Moon has become the next frontier. The United States has committed to returning human astronauts to the Moon by the end of the next decade. China has ...
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Published: Jun 08, 2008
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Ever since October 4th, 2004, when the X Prize was won by SpaceShipOne's first private suborbital flights, another space race has been ongoing. The winner of this space tourism race will be the first ...
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Published: Jun 04, 2008
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Despite Hillary Clinton's non concession speech at the end of the primary campaign, the general election will feature Senator John McCain for the Republicans and Senator Barack Obama for the Democrats...
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Published: Jun 04, 2008
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The South Dakota and Montana Primaries mark the end of the Democratic nomination race. It is likely that with a combination of elected delegates and pledged super delegates, Senator Barack Obama will ...
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Published: Jun 03, 2008
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At a speech before the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), Senator John McCain hammered his probable opponent for the Presidential election, Senator Barack Obama, for the latter's poli...
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Published: Jun 02, 2008
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One of the most controversial things that Senator Barack Obama has said is that he is willing to meet with enemies of the United States, like Iran's Ahmadinejad, without preconditions. The question th...
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Published: Jun 02, 2008
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Season 4 of Lost has concluded and the series, which started as being about a motley group of people stranded on a mysterious island, has spiraled into something bizarre and weird.
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Published: May 30, 2008
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Senator Barack Obama, candidate for President, seems to collect annoying and embarrassing friends like other people collect baseball cards. The latest is the Reverend Michael Pfleger, a Catholic pries...
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Published: May 30, 2008
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Despite advances in technology, we pretty much drive cars the way our ancestors did when Henry Ford first started to produce the Model T. That may change later in the 21st Century.
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Published: May 30, 2008
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A group called Vets for Freedom have begun to run Internet ads attacking Barack Obama for his anti Iraq War position and in so doing has caused political irony. Senators Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberm...
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Published: May 29, 2008
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Scott McClellan, former press secretary to President George W. Bush, is about to publish a book hat contains blistering criticisms of his former boss. McClellan covers mostly familiar territory, inclu...
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Published: May 28, 2008
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Recount, which premiered on HBO recently, is an attempt to retell the month long struggle in November and December of 2000 to determine who won that year's election. It being a Hollywood production, i...
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Published: May 27, 2008
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While Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had the second biggest four day pre Memorial Day opening, not everyone was pleased by Indy's latest adventure. The Man with the Whip and his co...
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Published: May 26, 2008
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is like a comfortable pair of slippers. All the elements of what makes a great Indiana Jones movie are there. On the other hand, since the film is se...
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Published: May 24, 2008
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Anti immigrant violence in South Africa has featured the return of an apartheid-era practice known as "necklacing." Necklacing consist of forcing a gasoline filled tire around a victim's chest and th...
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Published: May 22, 2008
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Senator Barack Obama, having concluded that for all practical purposes that the primary campaign is over, has decided to start his general election campaign in Florida. The importance of Florida to Ob...
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Published: May 22, 2008
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Recently the Roswell Beacon, a weekly newspaper published in North Fulton, Georgia, published a story about how law enforcement agencies are dealing with death threats on Presidential candidate Senato...
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Published: May 21, 2008
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Summit Entertainment has announced that it intends to remake the 1986 classic fantasy movie, Highlander. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, who wrote the screenplay for Iron Man, will pen the script for th...
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Published: May 21, 2008
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Doctors treating Senator Teddy Kennedy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have concluded that the Senator's recent seizers were caused by a malignant glioma brain tumor. Senator Kennedy's par...
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Published: May 20, 2008
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The Democratic National Committee has launched a web site called McCainpedia, which is purported to be a one stop site for video and information on Senator John McCain and his candidacy for President....
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Published: May 19, 2008
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One of the things Hollywood likes to do to avoid taking risks on new ideas and stories is to remake old, classic movies. Usually this sort of thing ends badly, with the new product being inferior to t...
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Published: May 19, 2008
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In a recent speech before the Israeli Knesset, President George W. Bush came out against appeasement. Various Democrats, from Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama to Speaker of the House Nancy ...
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Published: May 17, 2008
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the second film based on the classic fantasy series by C.S. Lewis, the good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien. As was the Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince C...
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Published: May 17, 2008
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The California State Supreme Court has ruled that California's law prohibiting same sex marriage is discriminatory and is therefore unconstitutional. This ruling resolves a suit brought by the city of...
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Published: May 15, 2008
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A Republican House candidate has lost a special election in Mississippi in what was normally a safe Republican district. With previous losses in Illinois and Louisiana, this defeat makes the third in ...
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Published: May 14, 2008
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The Reverend John Hagee, a televangelist who runs a mega church in San Antonio Texas and has a wide TV audience, is said by some to be John McCain's version of Jeremiah Wright. The comparison, though,...
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Published: May 13, 2008
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One of the latest trends in episodic television is to bring back classic TV shows and "reimagine" them, which usually means making them darker, edgier, and more modern. The technique has the virtue of...
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Published: May 13, 2008
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Recently, during a campaign swing in Oregon, Senator Barack Obama, candidate for US President, displayed a curious ignorance of geography of the country that he proposes to lead. He has increased the ...
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Published: May 12, 2008
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Speed Racer, based on the 1960s Japanese cartoon, is a phantasmagorical, eye searing mess of the movie with weirder editing and more CGI than any ten other films. If you are prone to motion sickness, ...
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Published: May 10, 2008
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Since the recent primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, the punditry and much of the Democratic Party has been writing off Hillary Clinton. However, if all else fails, she has one option left to her...
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Published: May 08, 2008
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While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battled in the recent Indiana and North Carolina primaries, there was a Republican primary featuring Senator John McCain. Interestingly 27% of Republicans in Nor...
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Published: May 08, 2008
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Operation Chaos is the brainchild of popular conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the purpose of which is to work mischief in the Democratic nomination process by urging Republicans to cro...
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Published: May 07, 2008
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In the wake of Hillary Clinton's double digit defeat in North Carolina and her narrower than expected win in Indiana, former Senator and Presidential Candidate George McGovern became the latest Democr...
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Published: May 07, 2008
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Killing Rommel, a novel written by Stephen Pressfield, is a fictional memoir of a World War II British officer named Chapman who serves in the North Africa Campaign. It is also an awesome story of men...
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Published: May 07, 2008
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Khartoum, a film created in the 1960s and staring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, and Ralph Richardson, is the sort of inspiring epic that could never be made in these politically correct times. Th...
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Published: May 06, 2008
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Iron Man is the latest Marvel Comics super hero to make it to the big screen. The film is filled with interesting, well acted characters and lot of cool action sequences. It also has enough plot holes...
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