I’m not sure there was ever a movie that surprised me more or moved me as much as Australian director Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli.” Both of my grandfathers fought in World War I, but both were Americans stationed in France. There weren’t any Americans fighting the Turks at Gallipoli, and I had never even heard of …
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“The TV beast ate us whole.” Believe it or not, Dennis Miller was once funny … and insightful. Miller was one of the first popular entertainers — yes, he was once popular as well — who said that the cause of many of our problems was the massive role television was playing in our lives. …
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“All the pollsters I talk to tell me it’s a toss-up” That was President Biden’s response when he was asked about polls showing him trailing Donald Trump. If we take a closer look at that statement, it says so much about why Biden is in serious trouble reading into the conventions. First of all, Biden …
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Fifteen years ago this summer: It is hard for me to believe that just two days ago, on a lovely Friday in the south of France, I stood on one side of the Lot River and took this picture of this village. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is just a little town in the mountains, but the view is …
Republicans might be the luckiest people in the world. Also the stupidest. As much as Trumpanzees and other Republicans are practically wetting themselves with joy at the thought of their guy being immune from prosecution for almost any act he might take as president, they seem to be forgetting on thing. Their guy isn’t president. …
The Supreme Court says presidents have “absolute” immunity for clearly official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts. The best thing to be said about the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity for Donald Trump is that it could have been so much worse. Much of what Trump is on trial for would not fall under …
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He is opposed to mandatory vaccinations for public school students. He believes Americans are coming together on the abortion issue after the repeal of Roe v Wade. He takes great pride in appointing the three Supreme Court justices who have taken the country far to the right. He says billionaires need to pay lower taxes. …
I don’t know if Democrats everywhere are panicking today, but the media sure has its panties in a bunch over President Biden’s lackluster performance in Thursday evening’s debate with Donald Trump. I wouldn’t want to say I told you so, but I would still vote for Biden over Trump in a heartbeat. Still, the things …
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I had an epiphany of sorts tonight. As much as I have been anticipating the debate between President Biden and Donald Trump, I will not be watching even one minute of it tonight. Oh, I’ll read about it tomorrow morning and watch clips of it on the Internet, but that why I get to decide …
I came across a statistic the other day that didn’t ring true. Someone said that 74 million Americans love Donald Trump, based of course on the rough number of votes he got in the 2020 election. It’s a meaningless number for several reasons, but if we were to assume it’s real, there are 330 million …
