The Fifth Estate: Well-Acted, but Between Two Genres
The Fifth Estate is more like a documentary — without the context or the strict adherence to documentable facts — than it is an dramatization. It's not a bad film,...
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Republican Sell-out: White House Wins on Budget, Debt
The Republican congressional leadership capitulated completely to White House demands for full funding of the federal budget at fiscal 2013 levels and a suspension of the debt limit through...
A GOP Senate Cave-in?
Senate Republican negotiators are reportedly considering a grand bargain with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to raise the debt limit and reopen the partially closed federal government with no...
Captain Phillips: Well-made Film Based on Real-life Drama
Captain Phillips is a well-made drama about the real-life events that played themselves out on global television back in April of 2009. The audience already knows the outline of...
Obama Complains About Lack of Same Spending He’s Pledged To Veto
President Obama complained about the shutdown of parts of the federal Head Start pre-school nutritional assistance program in his weekly address October 5, even though he has already pledged...
House GOP Winning With Ted Cruz’s “Piecemeal” Strategy
The House Republican leadership has adopted Texas Senator Ted Cruz's strategy for fighting back against the Obama administration promise to vote down all government spending until the House approves...
Shutdown: Democrats Trigger “All or Nothing” Bluff
The federal government entered into a partial shutdown at midnight October 1 as congressional leaders were unable to agree upon a “continuing resolution” appropriations bill to fund programs in...
UN Seeks “First Responder” Status and “Governance” in Syria Resolution
When the United Nations Security Council agreed to enforce a chemical arms ban in Syria, it was a significant step toward establishing the United Nations as a global police...
They’re Lying to You: Appropriations and “Shutdown” Lies
As Democrats and Republicans squabble over federal funding and a partial shutdown of the federal government looms, many in the press are mindlessly parroting Democratic Party's talking points about...
Cruz Control: Senator Ted Cruz Speaks (at Length) Against ObamaCare
“I rise today in opposition to ObamaCare,”declared Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as he began his marathon speech against the president's healthcare law Tuesday afternoon. He continued, “I intend to...
The NSA Domestic Surveillance Lie
When accusations of spying on Americans were first leveled at the NSA, the government claimed there was no illicit spying. Then it had to backtrack again and again. ...
Does Obama Have the Constitutional Power to Go to War in Syria?
The Washington Post's neoconservative columnist Jennifer Rubin appears to be on the warpath against members of Congress skeptical of Syrian intervention, especially congressmen who assert that it's beyond the...
Criminalizing the Right? Military Labels Founding Fathers “Extremist”
Defense Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request purporting to train U.S. soldiers and sailors label the Founding Fathers of the United States...
NSA Revelations Prove Abuse Is the Rule, Not the Exception
Recent revelations by the Washington Post have confirmed that NSA abuse of Americans' privacy through unconstitutional warrantless surveillance is far more prevalent than agency requests for information on terrorists....
Did Obama Just Admit the NSA Was Collecting Americans’ Phone Audio?
In his Aug. 9 press conference, President Obama seems to have paved the way for a government admission that the NSA is recording the telephone calls of millions of...