The Academy liked this Iraq film for being "apolitical." In fact it's the opposite: an endorsement of the politically chauvinistic view that the world is a stage for Americans.
I am confounded as I try to make sense of film scholar Sheril Antonio and noted Black public intellectual Stanley Crouch’s debating the merit of what I see as the pseudo-monster movie Precious.
And yes, I called that “cultural” document a monster movie because what is Precious, if anything, but monstrous?
First random thought: did Stanley [...]
The birth control pill has been around for fifty years, and in that time, a lot of women have taken a lot of hormones. Indeed, the United Nations Population Division estimates that more than 100 million women around the world are currently taking hormonal contraception. That’s a huge number to be sure, but it’s [...]
The Tea Parties are getting more anti-establishment every day …
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
“I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along [...]
Joseph Casias, 29, has an inoperable brain tumor. Last November, Walmart fired him after 5 years on the job because he tested positive for (legal) marijuana.
Hal Turner, an internet shock jock and F.B.I. informant, beat the rap again as his second federal "Death-Threat Trial," ended in yet another mistrial.
President Barack Obama today addressed tensions between the U.S. and Muslims saying that "sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam." Obama said he wanted to make it clear... (source: CNN) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
U.S. President Barack Obama talks about the tension between the U.S. and the Islamic world as he delivers what the White House is calling a major speech to Muslims in Cairo, Egypt. He tells the audience that America is not "at war with Islam." (source: CNN) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
A Defense Department official set up a private network of spies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to gather intelligence on insurgents, according to officials.
"Today is the fourth hearing on Comcasts proposed $30 billion takeover of NBC yet federal officials have only begun to scratch the surface of the anti-competitive impacts this merger will have.
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