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May 19, 2023
Liam Neeson in MemoryUnlike everyone else in Tinseltown, Liam Neeson is not afraid to look his age.
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February 8, 2023
Fedora: Think opera, not cute little hatA surprise hit on New York's opera schedule.
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January 23, 2023
'Remember This'A new film is coming about Jan Karski, the Polish patriot who first warned Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the horrors of the Holocaust, when it could have been stopped.
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January 14, 2023
The ins and outs of Biden's DocumentgateAs the leftist media might say, are the walls finally closing in?
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December 24, 2022
Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans' is more reality than fableIf you like to go to the movies at Christmas, go see Stephen Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."
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September 3, 2022
Unhinged at Independence HallDid this man forget entirely that MAGA stands for Make America Great Again?
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April 3, 2022
War, terrorists, and our government is obsessed with transgenderismPrioritizing has not been the Biden administration's strong suit.
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March 19, 2022
Immigration to the USA? Ukrainians need not applyCould it be because they're not the right color for our Democrat overclass? Ask Kamala.
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February 3, 2022
Why Putin May Be Hesitant to InvadeHow many children can Mother Russia afford to lose?
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December 26, 2021
Union of Concerned Scientists 2022 calendarA cartoon demand for nonscientific compliance with political agendas.
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December 5, 2021
Temple Emanu-El joins cancel culture against Alan DershowitzAlan Dershowitz, a prominent legal scholar and defender of Israel, got cancelled from an event on mere accusations of misconduct which he's denied.
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November 13, 2021
'Transgender Awareness Week' — are you kidding?Given the problems troubled transgender individuals create for society, they don't need a week honoring them.
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July 25, 2021
R.I.P. Jackie Mason, clown prince of puncture comedyBorscht Belt or no, he was the funniest, keenest, sharpest. most evocative natural comic I’ve ever been blessed to have spent time with.
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May 8, 2021
Tucker's Vaccine SkepticismCarlson has every duty to bring up the negative potentials and/or actualities of these new entities in the drug armamentarium.
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April 13, 2021
The host has terminated your participation in this forumIf you're a Republican in New York, politicians are not going to have much patience for you exercising your voice.
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April 3, 2021
What body language study tells us about Joe, Kamala, and Juan WilliamsA look at deranged leftist politicians and the so-called journalists who defend them.
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March 27, 2021
What You Shouldn’t Forget About ChinaWeakness is toxic in dealing with the Chinese, as I observed when I first arrived to work as a Vice President and professor in one of the 67 universities in Wuhan, Zhejiang Province
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March 15, 2021
The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards: Gasp, yikes, yawn, ahhThree and a half hours of glitz, skin-tight dresses, and "history." At least politics was nowhere.
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February 26, 2021
Celebrating Purim under COVID in New YorkWherein a New York Jewish Republican gets a chance to publicly vent her anger against the likes of Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer.
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February 9, 2021
Analyzing Kamala's handwriting: A bigger ego than Obama?She does not appear as tentative as her running mate does in his wavering, weak, tentative pennings.
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January 26, 2021
Jewish revenge in post-WWII EuropeA vivid recollection from someone who was there.
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January 14, 2021
A British expatriate can’t help but notice the left’s double standardsWhen it comes to double standards, she’s beyond perturbed. She’s peeved.
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December 27, 2020
The New Yorker goes low with its final cover of the yearI had to gawk in disbelief.
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December 21, 2020
60 Minutes forgot just one name in their 'backstory' on the vaccinesScant credit where credit is due.
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October 24, 2020
Biden in his own handThe wavery, quivery signature of Joe Biden is one that might attach to an assistant under-secretary of leafy vegetables.
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October 13, 2020
Joe Biden antagonizes Saudi Arabia for some reasonWhat rabbit trail is Biden scurrying down?
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October 4, 2020
Don't count President Trump out yetJohn Podhoretz thinks President Trump is done for. No, he's not.
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September 30, 2020
Yom Kippur in the time of coronavirusThis Yom Kippur was...discernibly different.
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September 22, 2020
A Democrat mourns: Not enough entertainment in the White House!No art, concerts, poetry readings, or suchlike enlightened entertainments. Oh, woe!
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July 23, 2020
Bari Weiss isn't the only one being bulliedConservatives are getting browbeaten, and too often literally beaten, from coast to coast.
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July 10, 2020
The SPLC and transgenderParents don’t let children destroy their growth patterns unless they are very, very confused about what constitutes being a parent.
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July 1, 2020
Flowers for Teddy RThis week, hundreds showed up in the hottest day, at the hottest hour, without a cloverleaf of shade, in front of the revered (until now) American Museum of Natural History.
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June 2, 2020
We need less hand sanitizer and more street sanitizerWe don't need more ever-ready convenience sanitizers, except as applied to the circuit-breaker delinquent thugs destroying our cities.
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April 22, 2020
Gordon Chang calls the coronavirus 'probably a deliberate leak' and likely an 'act of war'Gordon Chang speaks about China's deceptions on Zoom...
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March 22, 2020
American Chinese protest ‘ethnicity bias’ to the Wuhan virus discussion – do the Jews have to fix it?There is sentiment in PC circles arguing that the Jews "owe" political correctness to the Chinese. They don't.
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March 19, 2020
The Democrats have stopped laughingWe are experiencing a paradigm shift, and partisanship offers little of substance to hang a sane hat on.
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January 29, 2020
Warming and open debateWe need less strident defenders of the anthropogenic view, more neutral scientific inquiry and debate.
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September 25, 2019
Between Two Ferns: Not laughing at this claimed comedyAn effort at madcap, capsized by the ego of the host.
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September 21, 2019
Soros Takes on DenaturalizationThe Open Society weighs in on the evil Orange Man's efforts to revoke the citizenship of criminals, gangsters, drug smugglers, Jihadis, and other poor innnocents.
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September 9, 2019
Got Google? Scarier than milkMark Levin had a fascinating episode on his exceptional hour-long Fox News program, Life, Liberty & Levin, yesterday, where his guest was an avowed leftist but an honest researcher.
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May 11, 2019
Candied BarA reenactment at Fordham Law School underlines what's wrong with liberal attitudes toward illegal immigration.
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April 30, 2019
Report from last night's rally outside the New York Times against its cartoon jihadSurprise speaker Alan Dershowitz deprecated the value of the Times, noting that he had probably written more columns for the paper than anyone else who was not an actual staffer.
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October 27, 2018
Jawing with the NYPD as CNN HQ was evacuatedI interviewed a clutch of NYPD men standing guard outside the impressive Time Warner Center, as well as inside the atrium lobby, during the suspicious package scare.
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October 16, 2018
Six Autumn FilmsFrom thoughtful exploration of one of life's most important issues to lazy illiterate trash, this season's new films run the gamut.
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September 16, 2018
When is Serena not, um, Serene?Most of the time, it seems – and it says a lot about our culture.
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August 13, 2018
Some suggested new categories for the next OscarsStart with the Harvey Weinstein award...
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July 20, 2018
Voter fraud? Don't worry your pretty little head countEven the more seemingly impressive experts on this matter don't offer the most assuring denials about voter fraud.
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July 11, 2018
The Catcher Was a Spy: A reviewA superb study of one of the most effective and mysterious American secret agents: Moe Berg.
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June 24, 2018
Eve Ensler Brings Fruits to Off-Broadway"Fruit Trilogy" is Eve "Vagina Monologues" Ensler's latest...offering, I guess they call it.
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June 12, 2018
A Glimpse inside George Soros's Open Society FoundationsWhat is it really like inside a Soros foundation presentation?
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March 10, 2018
Three flicks to watch (or not) in MarchBlack Panther is one of the ones not to watch.
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February 24, 2018
Two films to take your mind off Donald Trump for a whileTake a break and go to the movies.
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January 28, 2018
The Other Wall and its DiscontentsA mini-tempest breaks out concerning ill-mannered media types at the Wailing Wall.
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January 20, 2018
So what if the President Trump did use that word?Who really isn't sick to death of people being ungrateful nitpicks who cannot say thank you for all the benisons bestowed by this president, no matter his alleged blue tongue?
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January 14, 2018
Up North: What's Doing with Illegals on the Other Fenceless Border?An adventure to the Great White North, where clandestine border crossings are less ballyhooed but still a threat.
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January 9, 2018
J Street jaywalks the delicate Iran lineThe duplicitous anti-Israel organization, always claiming to be pro-, has a suggestion for how Donald Trump should deal with Iran's mullahs.
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January 5, 2018
Minor birds dare to condemn without even an interviewDonald Trump deserves fairer treatment than the apocalyptic out-of-hand condemnations he receives from prominent unhinged liberals.
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December 31, 2017
US longevity and illegal immigrationGovernment statistics do not yet collate (or so we are told) such salient aspects of the avalanche of “migrants,” “asylees” and “refugees” we are entertaining all over the 50 states.
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December 24, 2017
A hot movie that is not, and one that is child-worthyOne that mainly sells toys to children, another that enlightens them.
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December 13, 2017
December silver screen harvestThe good, the bad, and the stupid – opening for Christmas.
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November 15, 2017
Zimbabwe's racist, socialist dictator Robert Mugabe under house arrestTurned the former "breadbasket of Africa" into a nightmare of economic collapse.
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October 19, 2017
Michael Moore panders to his bubble on BroadwayPlenty of empty seats at Michael Moore's one-man show.
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August 12, 2017
Trans Youth: HBO Vice Peddles Child AbuseJust sitting still in the packed screening auditorium, surrounded by rapt devotees or whoever the new minority victims are, proved uncomfortable in the extreme.
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August 11, 2017
Hollywood does white trashThe Glass Castle portrays hillbilly Depression-era retreads, but what gnaws at the viewer is how this family of six has no income to speak of, yet nevertheless enjoys glowingly abundant health and wears clothes that appear interestingly consignment shop yet also not old or frayed or tired.
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July 21, 2017
One to gross you out, one to put you out: Girls Trip and Baa Baa LandBased on today's film offerings, one can either be grossed out by the latest Hollyweird yuckfest of vulgarity or be intrigued by a movie about sheep.
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July 14, 2017
Another New York Blackout: Evading WalpurgisnachtSo what was New York City like when the lights went out Thursday afternoon?
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July 11, 2017
Footnotes: A review of a French movie musical on shoesGenre-bending, to say the least.
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June 28, 2017
The Beguiled and The Big SickTwo movie reviews: Civil war-era forbidden flirtations versus a stand-up comic's travails in a traditional Pakistani family.
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June 7, 2017
Megan Leavey: A welcome, warm-hearted movie with a woofA restrained, uncloying, unusually worthwhile and entertaining movie. And, no small miracle, makes you proud to be an American.
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May 19, 2017
Wanna impeach President Trump? Hold that thought, Kids...Impeachment? Try. Just try it.
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April 24, 2017
Miracle on Broadway?A play running in New York City is doing the seemingly impossible: getting Trump-loathing New Yorkers to reconsider. Miracle on Broadway?
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April 23, 2017
‘Body of Women’ -- Earth Day event celebrates…chestsOn Central Park West in Manhattan, they have a thing about boobs.
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April 15, 2017
Jerrold Nadler Hosts a Town HellRepresentative Jerrold Nadler serves the 10th Congressional District (D-N.Y.), reflecting the deep-blue coloration of his largely Democrat constituents of NYC's Upper West Side.
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March 30, 2017
Geomorphism: An erosion-weighing considerationThose hysterical over "climate change" might want to take a look at data that are a little more solid. Like this.
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March 4, 2017
The Donald's 'The Signature': A handwriting analysisWe didn't have to work very hard to parse President Trump's declaratively "aggressive" signature.
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February 20, 2017
Defending Donald Trump: Winding Up, Winding DownDay after day, the attacks come. How much longer can it (and we) last?
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February 7, 2017
The best Super Bowl: Yadda-yadda, and we win!There are some parallels between the Patriots on Super Bowl Sunday and certain patriots with a new president in America.
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January 23, 2017
Two films we can actually like: The Founder and Patriot's DayTwo non-P.C., relatable flicks. For a welcome change.
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January 20, 2017
A drama to celebrate a landmark leaker?A new play celebrating Chelsea Manning is announced. What's next? A rap musical about Benedict Arnold?
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January 13, 2017
So you wrangled yourself an invite to the inaugurationHow delighted are you we have finally prevailed over the terror of seeing that pantsuited panther for four extended Obamayears?
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January 1, 2017
Note to NYT: Get an education on the 'two-state solution'This is getting embarrassing.
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December 30, 2016
Obama is the real 'Rogue One'This abysmal presidential legacy makes for Rogues One through Ten.
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December 28, 2016
When the US Embassy moves to Jerusalem…Word has it that if soon-president Trump does indeed shift the embassy from Tel Aviv to [OMG!] Jerusalem, all heck will break loose.
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December 16, 2016
The wealthy bizman conundrumWhat is Donald Trump to do with all his investments before he becomes president? How will he avoid conflicts of interest?
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November 17, 2016
How to Mess Up Election Day: New York EditionOn November 8, the machines that took the paper ballots in Manhattan were breaking down at a record pace.
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October 28, 2016
Significant DenialA new film deals with the downfall of Holocaust denier David Irving.
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October 8, 2016
I’m shocked, shocked at Trump’s naughty wordsI submit the whoop-dee-do is yet another way of squelching normal male behavior and speech, another peg in the mortise board of decommissioning men from being men.
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October 7, 2016
Shin Godzilla and the ghost of America’s pastShin Godzilla, the new movie opening today, is amazing for two reasons – one good, one bad.
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October 3, 2016
PIGGY-HeadedCompare Ms. Machado to the failure of Hillary to address the onerous and grim record of umpteen Muslim countries in regard to their mistreatment of women.
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September 5, 2016
Pity the poor word fragment 'hu'There's a little more to "Allah akbar" than most newscasters let on.
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September 1, 2016
In Their Own Hands: Some Surprises from the Handwriting of Donald Trump and Hillary ClintonThe comparison between the two major candidates would seem to be “won” by the harder-driving, bullish Trump over the nuanced, deceptive presentational window display of the former secretary of state.
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August 16, 2016
Answering Erick Erickson's ‘A Vote For Trump Is a Vote for Hillary Clinton’You can privately jump over that cliff; do not, sir, take millions of us with you.
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August 4, 2016
The Uncondemned: Examining the fallout of the Rwandan genocideAnd what a liberal viewer had to say after the screening about "respecting the cultures" of woman-abusing Muslim nations.
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July 28, 2016
Five hundred years ago, the ghetto was bornSix thousand Jews in Venice were given 48 hours to move bed and barrel to the ramshackle foundry that, in Italian, became the word "ghetto."
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July 23, 2016
Peggy Noonan on the Republican Convention: Swing and a missThe Wall Street Journal luminary screws up on Cruz and Trump.
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July 17, 2016
Turks Careening Backward under Erdogan’s FistA century of progress away from medieval Islam is at risk.
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July 13, 2016
Rejecting the counsel of surrenderThere are those who just want to close the book on dissonant views, and just, like Rodney King of L.A. long ago, “get along.”
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July 11, 2016
The croupier dealt the cards, and the players all see what’s on the tableThe FBI proceedings over two long years wounded Hillary with a series of mortal blows.
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July 7, 2016
Film review: Captain FantasticThanks to its socialist writers, this one brings to mind the famous quotation: "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"
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July 5, 2016
Two worthy documentariesA portrait of an iconic movie director and the recovery of an autistic child provide the subject matter for two excellent documentary films just released.
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July 4, 2016
Clinton CashIt is a wonder the film – or the book – got made at all, given the many tricks up the Clintonian sleeves.
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June 25, 2016
‘Racism' as a bugaboo swordIt is not racist to want one's country to remain one's country.
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June 11, 2016
Wolves and Ecological BalanceWe have come a long way from the view of gray wolves as varmints to be killed for bounty wherever they were encountered.
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June 6, 2016
Self-flagellating liberals beat the tom-toms for their boxerIt’s over the top. It’s embarrassing, overdone, and absurdly too much.
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May 25, 2016
'Carlos Danger' in his own sex, lies, and social malfunction see-allYes, someone finally watched the Anthony Weiner documentary.
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May 24, 2016
At least Canada takes care of her citizens...How would the U.S. fare in a Fort McMurray blaze-type situation, with 100,000 people displaced? Just look at how we did during Hurricane Katrina.
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May 14, 2016
Pssst: Trump wasn't wrong on the rape thingIt seems that the record still needs setting straight.
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May 6, 2016
Obama: All Faiths are EqualDefensive actions to forestall attacks on us from Muslim solo actors or ragtag militia cadres is not “an attack against all faiths.”
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April 22, 2016
The new bathroom diktatDon’t women – and men, too – have any right to privacy, security and peace of mind – even when they repair to the loo?
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March 22, 2016
Obama holds his own... UmbrellaHow much power can be exerted by such a namby-pamby leader-from-behind?
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March 18, 2016
Hey, consumers, don't fret: GMO produce aren't Frankenfoods...and regular climate isn't FrankenweatherThere is as much data to support the view that Genetically Modified Organisms [GMOs] are safe as there is to support the view that climate is changing as a result of man made CO2
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February 26, 2016
The one – slightly unobvious – rationale to vote TrumpThis is not a plea to vote Don; it is one argument to provide solace if it is already too late to reverse the incoming tide.
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February 12, 2016
Review: Three films directed by brother teamsTwo horror films and one comedy – one by the famous Coens.
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January 27, 2016
Leaky is as Leaky doesNo matter what a word might mean for millennia, Hillary twists it.
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January 24, 2016
Crybaby-Chic hits OscarComplaint-mongers post a scary warning: They will boycott the Oscars. Shudder, gasp. First, who cares?
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January 11, 2016
Big Top with Small SpinHow to take the fun out of a circus: treat it as art at Lincoln Center
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January 4, 2016
A fistful of films for 2016Five new films, some of them Oscar-bait, kick off the new year. But enough with the political messages already
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December 26, 2015
Sleep Positions and PoliticsGranted that anybody can sleep with things as they are.
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December 20, 2015
Dem Debate: Saturday Night LitesDistracting if too telling to my eyes was the absence of flag pins and US flags onstage altogether. A bare bones stage with bare-bones candidates.
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November 17, 2015
Vetting? You don't got to steenking vetting...for anyoneHow exactly are we supposed to vet all these Syrian refugees? Who really believes that this can even be done?
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November 15, 2015
<em>STINK!</em>There’s no agency, including the FDA, mandating a tell-all of what comprises “fragrance.” It’s a vivid Black Hole of who-knows-what.
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October 15, 2015
Terror at the circus!The big top has come to New York...but there's something horrifying inside.
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October 11, 2015
<em>Jobs</em>Great filmmaking. Great writing. Recklessly impressive acting choices in the new movie about Steve Jobs.
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October 11, 2015
<em>The Martian</em>Matt Damon entertains with his cherubic optimism at being abandoned on the red planet as the portrayal of NASA's non-white, non-Asian diversity is even more otherworldly.
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October 11, 2015
<em>Soul of the Elephant</em>This likable documentary tracks the unexplained deaths of two bull elephants that died with their ivory unplundered in Botswana
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October 2, 2015
Two New Movies Worth SeeingA government task force tasked with decapitating the escalating drug cartels and a could-be-real film about a young, attractive woman kidnapped and locked in a tiny room.
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September 29, 2015
Film Review: <em>The Walk</em>Even kids can appreciate this goal-focused tale – and how often can you say that about adult films nowadays?
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September 12, 2015
Washington Anti-Iranian Nuke RallyCruz, Trump, Palin, and thousands of other Americans turn thumbs down on the Iran "agreement".
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August 18, 2015
The Age of Drones Is upon UsAnd the government is dragging its feet in safeguarding Americans from spying and even attack.
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August 16, 2015
Digging for Fire / The Gift / Impossible MishugasThree films: two adult outings and, well... Tom Cruise.
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August 8, 2015
Two Documentaries, SortaTwo "documentaries" display the opposite sides of the left-wing, pseudointellectual coin.
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August 5, 2015
A want of sentimentToo much screen time may be shrinking millennials' capacity to empathize.
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August 2, 2015
Some Advice on What to See This SummerA few movie reviews for when you decide you need a quick break from politics.
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June 13, 2015
<em>Spy</em> -- a Film ReviewFor just $65 million, a pittance nowadays, director Paul Feig creates a mostly hilarious, high-return comedy-actioner.
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June 6, 2015
<em>Boulevard</em> -- a Film ReviewRobin Williams' last film project fails to outweigh the shock of his suicide.
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May 24, 2015
Clinton the MusicalThe play strip-mines the trajectory of Clinton sordidity for laughs and curdling entertainment.
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May 22, 2015
A Persian artist at 91An artistic return to the time before 1979, when Iran fell victim to Islamization.
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May 11, 2015
Do what they say...not what they sprayThe glitterati are oblivious of the water crisis in their literal own backyards.
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May 10, 2015
Four Films: one for the wise son, one for the laughing son, etc...Two clunkers, a good sci-fi thriller, and a delightful documentary.
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May 9, 2015
Our Immigration System Ain't Broke?We cannot bivouac, educate, medicate, and translate for thousands of noncitizens from afar. We cannot provide incomes for them. We cannot hire them, at the expense of the ailing economy and our 50-plus million unemployed and underemployed citizenry.
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April 14, 2015
<em>Desert Dancer</em>How does an Iranian movie director make a movie about a dance-obsessed youth when the mullahs have a permanent fatwa against dancing?
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April 3, 2015
Film Review: Five Flights UpMorgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, and Cynthia Nixon in a New York-set dramedy.
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March 14, 2015
The Green on Saint Paddy's DayFrom a spike in cabbage sales to beer consumption, St. Patrick's Day by the numbers.
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February 28, 2015
Three films for March: A farm tale, a fable, and a photogKevin Costner in a cavity-inducing tale of inspiring Hispanic high school athletes of indeterminate nationality
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February 16, 2015
50 Shades of GAHHLife is too short to indulge in this clumpy tale for frustrated or celibate shut-ins.
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February 14, 2015
A World-class FlashlightBrookhaven National Labs celebrates a glorious achievement of American science and know-how.
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January 30, 2015
Black and White - a film reviewA Civil Rights-era film in a politically correct time.
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January 26, 2015
Black Sea - a reviewBlack Sea is a tough-minded, suspense-driven masculine welcome basket to moviegoers hungry for actors, not CG effects.
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January 21, 2015
A tale of two SOTU partiesOur fearless correspondent attends Democrat and Republican SOTU-watching parties, doors from each other in Manhattan.
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January 15, 2015
When a 'Joke' -- Isn'tFor Jewish Jon to add to the vilification of Jews and Israel when we have just sustained the horrific murder of four wholly innocent shoppers chosen because they were of Jewish descent is unconscionable.
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December 13, 2014
Letter from DubaiAn AT regular gets away from the snow and storms... and tells us all about it.
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December 4, 2014
Unbroken: A Film ReviewA nice effort, but director Angelina Jolie fails to deliver.
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December 2, 2014
The Imitation Game: a Film ReviewWith Imitation Game, history has been served, and audiences are piqued and pleased.
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October 2, 2014
Two Taut Thrillers: The Equalizer and Gone GirlDenzel Washington and Ben Affleck compete for this reviewer's endorsement.
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September 20, 2014
Keep On Keeping OnA charming, intimate and occasionally touching documentary on the iconic jazz great, Clark Terry
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September 16, 2014
Report on the Sunday, September 14 rally against biased mediaRaising voices against the unfair coverage of Israel.
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August 28, 2014
Those 'Dead Americans' in the Cali-Fate of Feckless FunkCan anyone doubt what the gangsta rappers and career losers bouncing to Syria and IS "to fight" for these beasts of intransigent death are really after?
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August 19, 2014
Union Square Rally for Israel a success but not loud enough to snag media coverageA rousing success, save for the stunning absence of a single major network or radio or newspaper
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August 17, 2014
The Giver -- a Film ReviewTo call the ideas explored here superficial is to award it a prize of depth. It is approaching not absolute zero, but absolute tosh.
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August 12, 2014
The Immoral Left Protests IsraelA craven call to arms by the dimmest, most refractory, dumbest recipients of democracy’s beneficence and accommodations
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August 10, 2014
Two Movie Reviews: 'Lucy' and 'Into the Storm'Amazing superpowers, both in a woman and in the weather.
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July 30, 2014
Film Review: My Old LadyA worthy contender for the Academy Awards...title notwithstanding.
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July 22, 2014
Times Square backs Israel8,000 waving, singing, chanting, patriotic masses rally for Israel.
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July 20, 2014
Bitter HarvestThe Left is again revealed buck-naked anti-Semitic, and Arabs finally admit their Big Lie.
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July 9, 2014
Congresswoman Carolyn May Be Full of [M]aloneyA Democratic congresswoman's New York pow-wow yields some odd adjectives for Hillary Clinton, among other things.
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July 6, 2014
One Hot, One Cool: Two FlicksA refreshing buddy movie with a twist, and some light fare for after whatever you're doing.
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June 30, 2014
The Belly of the BeastDesperate to cap the Koch Brothers' impact, Moveon.org puts on hundreds of Citizens United Orwellian group-hates.
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June 3, 2014
Cruz Is da Man: And He's Gonna Be...45When we caught up with the attractive, and very personable, Senator Cruz, it was Sunday, 1 June.
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June 1, 2014
Dr. Zeke Explains it all to YouEzekiel Emanuel, bro of Rahm and Ari, tells it like it… isn’t
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May 31, 2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West -- a Film ReviewA new-millennial "Blazing Saddles" -- except for all the cussin'.
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May 24, 2014
Now Use it in a SentenceThe New Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is ready to add their big data to auto-tune your connectivity to media and the digital divide (or something).
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May 13, 2014
The Fromage-Frescoed MoMathA wonderfully curated and stimulating exhibit, within view of Manhattan's iconic Flatiron Building.
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May 7, 2014
Bachmann Reprises, Feiglin Surprises at Israeli Independence Day GalaMoshe Feiglin, a leader of historic potential -- and don't count out Michelle Bachmann yet, either.
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May 3, 2014
<em>The German Doctor</em> and <em>The Railway Man</em> -- Film ReviewsTwo new films dealing with lesser-known aspects of the Second World War
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April 19, 2014
Cold in July -- a Film ReviewA well-acted thriller brings up more questions than it answers.
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March 30, 2014
<em>Fading Gigolo</em>: A 'Not Exactly Woody Allen' MovieA hit-or-miss seamy rom-com, with more miss than hit.
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March 27, 2014
CHEF: Myriad loving close-ups of gorgeous ediblesThis film goes to the same brain centers as sex – without triggering the anticipatory guilt.
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March 22, 2014
The Grand Budapest HotelSacha Baron Cohen without the crudeness or the array of self-conscious cleverest boy in the room.
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March 15, 2014
In Thirty Years, Flynt Hasn't Moved -- the Public HasThe world's creepiest pornmeister is warmly welcomed and applauded by a packed Upper West Side New York crowd.
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March 1, 2014
The Marchers -- A ReviewA French film attempts to portray Arab immigration as a latter-day American civil rights movement.
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February 12, 2014
Barack, Shmarack: What's in a Name?Our president has gone from his "birth certificate" given names to a series of fanciful transitional identities and back. What gives?
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February 8, 2014
Two Comedies, One Doc: Film ReviewsTo winners and one strikeout -- not a bad average in the current film world.
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February 8, 2014
BEATLEMANIA for SaleSurprisingly underwhelming reception for an auction of Beatles memorabilia.
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January 5, 2014
The Wolf of Wall StreetIt's a little hard to tell if Wolf of Wall Streetis a condemnation or a celebration of the excess it depicts.
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December 23, 2013
Congressman Nadler Comes CleanFor once in his career, concerning Kerry and the Iranians.
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December 14, 2013
Clicking OffCan we opt out of text messaging, insta-memos, Wiki and pricky, emoticons and apps, sexting and wrexting?
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December 10, 2013
Writing Jews Out of the Future Historical record 'Way too SoonTried before -- never worked.
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August 17, 2013
Soul Doctor -- a ReviewA musical rabbi who collaborated with the high priestess of African folk? Tell us more...
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August 4, 2013
Elysium: Fuss without FuzzIf you're looking for a heavy-handed illegal immigration allegory from the same guy who brought us Promised Land, get out your wallet.
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August 1, 2013
Three Movies: A Buddy Flick, a Doc, and a ComedyA few choices to get you away from the doldrums of politics for a little while this summer.
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July 27, 2013
Woody Allen's Blue JasmineWoody Allen takes on the San Francisco Bay Area -- and Tennessee Williams.
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July 20, 2013
Drug War -- a Film ReviewA desperate drug lord, a driven cop... you can't top that formula.
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July 13, 2013
Two Americans -- a Film ReviewEl Norte, The Border... for some reason, illegal immigration calls up the worst insitncts in filmakers. Two Americans is no exception.
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July 9, 2013
White House DownWhite militia bad guys take over a White House inhabited by a black, Nicorette-chewing president in the latest Hollywood political pornography.
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June 16, 2013
Man of SteelDid anyone notice that all major characters except Diane Lane and bearded Russell Crowe had chin dimples? Even the bad-guy generals. What were the producers trying to say? But you'll go to see it no matter what the criticisms.
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June 15, 2013
Unfinished Song (aka Song For Marion) -- a Film ReviewFor all those who love Britflicks (and who doesn't?)
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June 12, 2013
Twenty Feet From Stardom -- a Film ReviewEver wonder who that voice on "Gimme Shelter" was?
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June 8, 2013
The Guillotines -- a Film ReviewLeave it to the Chinese to figure out how to make a guillotine fly.
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June 2, 2013
St. John and the 'Divine' Art of Jane AlexanderThe soaring architecture of a New York cathedral meets Jane Alexander's twisted figures of despair.
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May 23, 2013
3D Printers and the Transformation of ManufacturingTomorrow is already here -- get your own piece of it by mail order.
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May 11, 2013
What Maisie Knew -- A ReviewA century-old novel provides the basis for an on-the-money depiction of irresponsible parenting in the 21st century.
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April 14, 2013
In the Shadow of Lady LibertyOn a pleasant day in Liberty Park, intrepid New Yorkers oppose illegal non-citizens (supported by the SEIU) trying to claim citizen legitimacy.
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March 29, 2013
The Company You Keep: a Film ReviewThis would be Twilight with lefties -- except that it's lousy.
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March 23, 2013
CPAC Reflections 1: Getting Back to Core PrinciplesOne surprise was the vibrancy of the crowd.
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March 5, 2013
Hating BreitbartYou may know a man by his enemies. So goes the adage, which is the guiding principle behind the new documentary "Hating Breitbart." It fits.
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February 6, 2013
Top Ten Problems with that Skeet Shooting PictureA listing of what makes one suspect the photo was bogus, cooked up with Photoshop or entirely composited, like the President's one "composite girlfriend" in his account of his 'dating life' before he became noteworthy and flew right into the radar.
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February 3, 2013
Girls Just Wanna Have GunsThe men making military decisions are, in this unmilitary administration, largely unacquainted with military needs and circumstances, the president included. They know it all already, no lessons needed, thank you.
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December 30, 2012
End of year: Amplifying the Anthem of OneOf the great new possible holiday ideas, has anyone yet proposed a Singles week, or month, for those who give wedding presents to everyone, and never get anything back until or unless he/she ever manages to find a mate?
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December 25, 2012
Hunting Bin Laden: Zero Dark ThirtyIs it worth a come-see? Assuredly. By the fanatic long lines even late at night, this is the pic to see. And probably 90% went out satisfied. But is it all that?
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December 22, 2012
Jack ReacherA holiday surprise devoid of scatology. Tthere is nothing you couldn't show to your maiden church-going aunt. A compelling new thriller.
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December 11, 2012
Quentin Tarantino's Django UnchainedOpening Christmas Day: History as rewritten by nihilist jokers with an agenda -- an orgiastic spill of negativity and white self-loathing, a too-easy grab at convulsive payback.
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October 7, 2012
The Sessions -- A ReviewSuch films as My Left Foot and Diving Bell and the Butterfly developed winning tales challenged protagonists overcoming handicaps. The Sessions is such a film.
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September 29, 2012
The DictatorThough it got hardly a ripple in the critical columns, Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator goes farther than any popular film at lambasting the deficits and negatives of life in the Arab Middle East.
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September 22, 2012
The MasterA masterfully filmed ugly film that does not teach us anything we did not already know, nor provide us with an elevating entertainment. The movie as a whole is a visual feast but a mess.
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August 21, 2012
Voter Fraud: Coming to a Booth Near You?Recent actions on the part of the Obama administration have all veered toward abrogating legal safeguards for the integrity of the voting process.
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June 24, 2012
Really, Mr. Gaffemeister? Love, with Sinus SnufflesAn in-depth (albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek) analysis of our illustrious vice president's latest impromptu comedic remark.
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June 9, 2012
Robert Mugabe...What Happened?Out of Africa come two remarkable documentaries -- one on a Marxist tyrant who has impoverished the breadbasket of Africa and driven out the whites, and another on Uganda's encounter with gay rights activism.
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June 5, 2012
The Big Blow-Up Elephant Marches Amid the New Amsterdam DonkeysIt may be a harbinger of the election ahead: last night outside the Obama-Bill Clinton fundraiser in New York City, young Republicans mocked the gathering, and Democrats revealed how different 2012 is from 2008 for them.
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April 28, 2012
Sexing the DeadAs with fish, fresh is best. After the wife has lain on the floor or divan for 7, 8, 10 hours, she is just not so appealing a sex object as she was when she was newly stricken, stroked, decapitated, or cardiac-arrested.
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April 21, 2012
Deconstructing the 99%ersA bleachers-eye view of nonviolent tactic training of the 99%.
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April 8, 2012
Free MenA new French movie you probably never heard of is one of the year's best, already in April. It deals powerfully with subject matter that counts.
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February 28, 2012
Barack Obama, in His Own HandA graphanalysis of the president's handwriting, based on his signature.
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July 24, 2011
Trying to Move On MoveOn.OrgOur intrepid reporter attends a MoveOn.org meeting in Manhattan.
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July 10, 2011
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The DarknessA remarkable film biography of the Yiddish literary icon.
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January 28, 2011
Snow MenThe threat is right here. Men in black dotting our wide white streets. Men with no-BS weapons. Pretty much aiming at anything untoward. What aren't we being told?
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January 19, 2011
Tunisia MeltdownTunisia, until a few days ago, gave every appearance of being among the most advanced and benign Arab regimes.