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Matthew Rothschild's back
As Joni Mitchell sings, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?" ("Big Yellow Taxi"). I used to think nothing could be worse than Matthew Rothschild's The...
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Benghazi
I have not covered Benghazi in a while so I will write about that tonight.Benghazi is in Libya.Mumar Qaddafi was the leader of the country until U.S. President Barack Obama violated the War Powers Act...
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Tim Connaway, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Debra Messing, Matthew Perry and Josh Lucas
I have young readers and I am grateful for them. But I also have older viewers. I am grateful for them as well. And I think they may enjoy "Comedian-actor Tim Conway" -- the link goes to Tavis...
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Halabja
Saturday was an anniversary of a dark moment in history.The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued the following:Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of Halabja MassacreMarch 16, 2014Today marks the 26th anniversary of...
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His image on the world stage
Michael Wilner (Jerusalem Post) reports:The United States is using unprecedented language to condemn Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon after he continued weeks of criticism of US President Barack...
View ArticleHas Judd Apatow's moment passed yet?
I sure hope so. The Hollywood Reporter offers a write up (and transcript) on a little talk the film director gave. He has not had a hit film since 2007 ("Knocked Up"). And now he is set to direct a...
View ArticleThe Jewish Archives
The Jewish Archives were discovered in a flooded basement in Iraq by U.S. soldiers shortly after the start of the illegal war.. The documents were stolen from the Iraqi Jews by the government.The...
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The 'news' ratings battle
Lisa De Moraes (Deadline) reports CNN is breathing down Fox's neck ratings wise with Bill Weir (filling in for the fired Piers Morgan) beating Fox New's Megyn Kelley. Sadly, none of this is about...
View ArticleShe cannot escape Benghazi
Peter Van Buren notes:Powell-erful stuff. One hopes that the over 4,400 Americans who died in Iraq, the over 100,000 Iraqis who died and the taxpayers who watched a trillion dollars poured into the...
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The A.C.L.U. misses the damn point (how very sad)
The A.C.L.U.'s Jameel Jafar had a column for The Guardian which is worth quoting from:To anyone who criticized the National Security Agency's phone-records dragnet over the last nine months or so, the...
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What is going on in California?
Melody Guierrez and Carla Marinucci (San Francisco Chronicle) report:California Democratic senators - wary from months of scandals - called for the immediate resignation of state Sen. Leland Yee,...
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Good for Jimmy Fallon
Good for Jimmy Fallon.He had Joan Rivers on as a guest on The Tonight Show.Good for Mr. Fallon.Joan Rivers is hilarious in her segment but even if she had been awful, it still would have been the right...
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Did you love The Parallax View?
I did. That film starred Warren Beatty with Paula Prentiss. It was a film where the two and many others witness an assassination of a candidate like Robert F. Kennedy but he is killed in Seattle....
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TV and Ronan Farrow
"TV roundtable" at Third on Sunday was fun. Dona moderated and I will include this excerpt:Dona: Interesting. Ruth, Betty was noting how she doesn't want to invest and I believe you feel...
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Such bad (media) news
The Progressive has been struggling to stay afloat for some time now. There was a good chance it was going to go under before the year ended.Instead, it announced today it was merging with CMD:The...
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Benghazi hearing
Sharyl Attkisson recently resigned from CBS News where she was an investigative reporter for many years.In a series of Tweets, she has covered Wednesday's Benghazi hearing:Sharyl...
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More money wasted overseas
John Glaser (Antiwar.com) reports:According to the Associated Press, the U.S. government is still engaged in efforts to overthrow the Cuban government. Starting in 2010, a group of U.S. officials...
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Mickey Rooney passed away
From last night, here is Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts"When To Say Goodbye."Mickey Rooney has passed away. He was 93-years-old.He had not been boyish in decades but he was boyish in the 30s. He...
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Rand Paul's security concerns re: Benghazi
On September 11, 2012, there was an attack in Libya that left four Americans dead: Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith and U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.I was at the hearing today, the Senate...
View ArticleLaughable John Kerry says retirement is the same as death
September 11, 2012, there was an attack in Benghazi that left four Americans dead: Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Secretary of State John Kerry had a...
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