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Relevance: 12% Posted on: October 17, 2022
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! This 1966 comedy about the accidental grounding of a Soviet submarine off the coast of New England was nominated for four Academy Awards and captured the Golden Globe Award for best motion picture. But a remake exclaiming “The Chinese Are Coming!” would…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 17, 2021
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.” That’s Obi-Wan Kenobi’s line in the original Star Wars movie, sensing that the Empire’s Death Star had obliterated all the inhabitants of the Planet Alderaan. It popped into…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: July 23, 2019
Is Donald Trump really “draining the swamp”? It’s overflowing. Stan Collender, writing last year in Forbes, noted just what a big spender the president really is. Now, an update: fiscal year 2019 sports a deficit of $1.09 trillion, up considerably from the $897 billion projected earlier this year; the next…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: July 10, 2019
If you are like me, you react to news about billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by trying to retain some composure. His recent arrest on sex trafficking charges was a long time coming, sure; and the accusations swirling around him are disgusting and alarming. But I try to…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: August 2, 2019
Yesterday I referenced “pigs flying” . . . and Icarus’s waxed-wing fail. Today, it’s just about the muck. Now, I am on the road and definitely not catching every word of the Democratic debates. But amidst much nonsense and embarrassment — and there was a lot of it, from what…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: November 10, 2020
In a nation divided over color — red for Republicans and blue for Democrats — voters united around the country to pass and defeat measures at the ballot box. No grayness in the results, as in the presidential election. The returns are black-or-white. Before the election, I highlighted Citizens in…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: October 6, 2016
The story of the Wisconsin John Doe raids against conservatives, covered yesterday and the day before, is a big one. Huge. So I now continue. The rest of the story? Recently, materials that police seized from the subjects of those dawn raids were leaked, illegally, to the Guardian newspaper —…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: October 16, 2020
Relevance: 11% Posted on: November 15, 2019
“Something is going on,” writes The Washington Post’s Adam Taylor. “From Baghdad to Hong Kong, Santiago to Barcelona, sites around the world have seen major protests over recent weeks.” What is that something? “Global protests share themes of economic anger and political hopelessness,” reads the headline to Taylor’s article. He’s way off. Hope, not…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: May 20, 2019
Over the weekend, I suffered through Knock Down the House . . . so you don’t have to. While the documentary heralding four inexperienced Democratic women running for Congress in 2018 cost Netflix $10 million, I did not have to spend a dime — beyond my regular monthly subscription. The…