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Trash on the Hudson
American Spectator, by Mark Tooley
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Posted By:garnet, 12/21/2012 6:32:22 AM
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| Bill Murray would seem an unlikely Franklin Roosevelt. But the promos for Hyde Park on Hudson show him surprisingly persuasive, amid the charm and beauty of FDR’s upstate New York estate. There he famously entertained the King and Queen of England in 1939 as part of his stagecraft for persuading Americans eventually into another wartime alliance with Britain against Germany. It was a sort of hot dog summit, with the somewhat surprised royals enjoying mustard on casual American fare in a picnic. But I’ll be skipping this movie, thanks to reviews from the New York Post and the Washington Post,
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Judith, 12/21/2012 6:44:33 AM (No. 9077190)
A moral degenerate making a movie about one of his heroes....who just happened to be a moral degenerate. Surprise, surprise.
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Lawsy0, 12/21/2012 7:02:18 AM (No. 9077216)
Growing up, one half of my household loved FDR and the other half hated him. Had a boss at the bank tell me to check the headlines before leaving every afternoon, and that if FDR was still dead we could all go home. If FDR had risen from the grave, to start burying the money where he couldn´t grab it.
Rule of Personal Thumb: ordinarily if NY and DC critics pan a movie/book/play, I put it at the top of my list.
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kanphil, 12/21/2012 7:32:46 AM (No. 9077253)
I am certainly no fan of FDR, but the way Hollywood warps the character of our historical icons is absolutely criminal. I won´t go to this movie, nor Spielberg´s "Lincoln".
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lil dotty, 12/21/2012 9:04:36 AM (No. 9077422)
Believe I´ll pass because of Bill Murray. The only movie I enjoy with his performance would be ´Ground Hog Day´ Add FDR to the mix and it would be a definite waste the time and money.
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varkdriver, 12/21/2012 9:39:02 AM (No. 9077498)
#4, I will add his star turn as Karl Spackler in Caddyshack [big hitter, the Lama...long]. I don´t know why actors feel they need to portray someone to whom they bear no resemblance in any respect (Lindsay Lohan as Liz Taylor, or Richard Crenna as Ross Perot(!) in the TV miniseries ´On Wings Of Eagles´].
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/21/2012 10:07:23 AM (No. 9077569)
Ground Hog Day was the only movie I did not like. Bill Murray is great. And the author of this article has a lot to learn about movie critics. The Post and WaPo would be 2 I avoid. Remember all the controversy regarding the biopic about Reagan starring Mr. Barbra Streisand? How it was just storytelling and we shouldn´t be offended? Shoe is on the other foot now isn´t it?
FDR was right about one thing though, public employees should never ever be allowed to unionize.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Gallo3, 12/21/2012 12:13:03 PM (No. 9077931)
´Lost In Translation´ is ok.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99, 12/21/2012 4:29:07 PM (No. 9078373)
#6, it wasn´t Streisand, it was much much worse - Jane Fonda.
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Deneen Borelli: America’s
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: garnet- 4/2/2013 6:56:18 AM
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If America were a bus, Deneen Borelli would be the new Rosa Parks. Borelli is the very model of a human being, an African American and a woman who is just plain tired up to here at all of the back of the bus treatment dished by liberals — black and white alike — to conservatives who happen to be black. Ms. Borelli has in a figurative sense, as Rosa Parks did in the original and literal sense, sat down in a seat reserved for liberals at the front of the American bus. She won’t get up, she isn’t moving
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Harvest of uncertainty
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Orange County Register [CA], by Editorial
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Posted By: garnet- 3/27/2013 8:05:35 AM
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The impending policies of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect individual farmers and their employees. There are an estimated 600,000 crop workers and roughly 20,000 livestock workers in California at a given time. For every job in farming, the industry creates two to three nonfarming jobs. It´s an industry that should thrive in California, where the climate is kind.(Snip)"There´s nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act," Tom Nassif said to us; he´s president and CEO of Western Growers, an advocacy group representing area and regional family farmers in Arizona and California.
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On the Smug Side of History
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American Spectator, by George Neumayr
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Posted By: garnet- 3/27/2013 6:37:56 AM
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A country that stakes its future on lies will not have one. The fashionable lie of the moment is “gay marriage.” The push to deprive children of mothers and fathers for the sake of “genderless” marriage has never been stronger. The media propaganda about its “inevitability” is unremitting. One would think, judging by all the triumphant rhetoric heard this week, that over 30 states had approved it. In fact, over 30 states have banned it. According to the Washington Post, which just a few weeks ago was categorizing Christians as racists, the issue is all settled and done.
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Closed to the Public
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American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer
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Posted By: garnet- 3/26/2013 8:04:27 AM
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It was bad enough for the Obama administration to earn an overall grade of C-minus on its level of transparency from the independent watchdog group Cause of Action. When coupled with evidence of what is being hidden, the information makes the administration look even worse. Cause of Action uses requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), lawsuits, and other tools to expose what it calls “job-killing federal government regulations, waste, fraud, and cronyism.” As has been reported by Caroline May at the Daily Caller and others, the organization last week issued a report called “Grading the Government,”
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It´s the Rubio and Rand Party, now
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Politico, by Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen
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Posted By: garnet- 3/21/2013 8:36:02 AM
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Want to know if Republicans finally back immigration reform, stand a chance of picking up Senate seats in the midterms, or get their act together by 2016? Instead of the GOP, watch the Rubio-Paul Party. Forget John Boehner. Ignore Karl Rove. The real action in the GOP is coming from the newest wing of the party, the one born in the spring of 2009 - the offspring of Tea Party activists that almost single-handedly propelled Republicans to control of the House. This new movement brought Marco Rubio and Rand Paul to Washington
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The Nation Will
Reexamine Obamacare
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American Spectator, by Betsy McCaughey
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Posted By: garnet- 3/21/2013 8:24:53 AM
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The weasels who wrote the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 presidential election. Popular provisions were put into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26, offering “free” colonoscopies and mammograms (in truth, forcing you to pay for them in your premium, whether you get them or not), and giving women the thrill of getting contraceptives at the drugstore without paying anything. The White House also granted 1,472 waivers to certain companies and unions exempting them from insurance reforms
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The Emptiness of a Politicized Life
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Washington Free Beacon, by Sonny Bunch
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Posted By: garnet- 3/20/2013 11:02:05 AM
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This may sound odd coming from someone who has spent his life working in political reporting, but I find it extremely sad when people can’t separate politics from the rest of their lives. I’m not talking about people getting worked up about politicians; we live in divided times, so things are bound to get heated when talking about elected officials. I’m talking about people who say “I want nothing to do with [Person X] because he is a conservative/liberal/Republican/Democrat in his personal life.” This is why I find the Orson Scott Card thing so frustrating.
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Implementing Obamacare?
“Impossible endeavor"
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Washington Examiner, by Michael Barone
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Posted By: garnet- 3/19/2013 5:40:10 PM
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Will the government be able to implement Obamacare smoothly? An “impossible endeavor,” writes a reader who describes himself as “83 years young, married to a beautiful lady for 65 years, with a 54-year career in technology starting with punch cards in the Navy, retired from three major corporations at the director level, last position was with EDS working on Y2K project.” He goes on to list some of the things he believes need to be done, which I quote with his permission. I don’t know enough about this to make a judgment myself, but I have noticed over the years
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Crisis? What Crisis?
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American Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: garnet- 3/19/2013 12:04:32 PM
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Last week, President Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “we don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt.” It was par for the course (after all, he is almost always golfing) for the nation’s chief executive who just last year did not know the amount of our nation’s debt and made the preposterously naive statement that “a lot of it we owe to ourselves.” Apparently, our coming debt crisis is the only one Democrats do want to go to waste.
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Obama Shafts Poor and
Minority Seniors Again
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American Spectator, by David Catron
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Posted By: garnet- 3/18/2013 6:55:57 AM
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If President Obama’s rhetoric on domestic policy can be said to have a coherent theme, it involves his desire to use government to create a level playing field in which no single segment of the electorate enjoys unfair advantages or suffers disproportionate disadvantages in the pursuit of happiness. He is particularly concerned, he tells us, that the “rich” pay their fair share while poor and minority Americans receive their just due. Somehow, though, every policy decision made by his administration seems to tilt the playing field against the latter.
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Frack to the Future
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Creators Syndicate, by John Stossel
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Posted By: garnet- 3/13/2013 9:07:08 AM
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Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I´d think celebrities would love fracking. I´d be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don´t feel the love. Yoko sang, "Don´t frack me!" on TV. Stopping fracking is the latest cause of the silly people. They succeeded in getting scientifically ignorant politicians to ban fracking in New York, Maryland and Vermont. Hollywood gave an Oscar to "Gasland," a documentary that suggests fracking
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Senator Squatter? Heller Won´t
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Roll Call, by Meredith Shiner
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Posted By: garnet- 3/11/2013 4:40:25 PM
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Staffers for Sen. Dean Heller have been bullying other senators’ aides to protect the Nevada Republican’s space in the Russell Senate Office Building, CQ Roll Call has learned. As part of the biennial Senate office lottery, junior members are obligated to show their office suites to more senior members, who then have 24 hours to decide whether to claim that space as their own. Heller’s office suite — which he inherited after the scandal-fueled resignation of Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. — may be particularly attractive to other senators because its floor plan includes a larger-than-average member office.
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Why They Won’t Talk
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/11/2013 11:17:15 PM
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In 2011, the journalist Mara Hvistendahl published Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, detailing the societal effects of sex-selective abortions that target women the world over and resulted in the absence of perhaps more than 100 million girls who by now should have been born. But Hvistendahl soon learned the downside to uncovering what many believe to be a shocking trend in human rights offenses: people will want to do something about it. And so she lashed out, declaring that “anti-abortion activists
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Ben Carson steps down as
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Baltimore Sun, by Andrea K. Walker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:11:23 AM
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Leaving Blue New York, Boo-Hoo
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 4/12/2013 6:44:47 AM
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Only one of my six children has left New York for economic reasons but the strain of living in this expensive nanny state is weighing heavy on my other five and their families. As a native New Yorker, I´ve seen its middle class population decline over the years due to its neglect of blue collar families which is ironic since this is a Democrat city. With the recent arrests of several local politicians for corruption perhaps New Yorkers will pay more attention to those they put in office. Given their past indifference in local elections this is highly unlikely.
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Little Anthony Freemont´s
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American Thinker, by Doug Mainwaring
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 6:34:43 AM
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Remember little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of the "Twilight Zone´s" most famous episodes? In the opening sequence Rod Serling informs us: "A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines -- because they displeased him -- and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages -- just by using his mind. . . . and the people there have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield
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End this bizarre fantasy
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:10:54 AM
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Senate votes 68-31 to move
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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The Senate voted to move forward on gun control Thursday, clearing the first of what is expected to be many 60-vote hurdles for the legislation. (Snip) Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election — voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.The 16 Republicans who voted to proceed were
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Pat Smith and 700 Special Ops
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 6:13:54 AM
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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Philadelphia abortion clinic horror:
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USA Today, by Kirsten Powers
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:39:08 AM
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Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven´t heard about these sickening accusations? It´s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page. The revolting revelations of Gosnell´s former staff, who have been testifying to what they
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Boehner: I Don´t Need
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 11:51:37 AM
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On Thursday, in the midst of ongoing national debate over prospective gun control and comprehensive immigration legislation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he didn’t need the approval of a majority of his own party to move forward with legislation. Referring to the so-called Hastert Rule, named after former House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL), which dictated that House leadership not bring up any bill for a vote without the support of a majority of the majority party, Boehner said, “Listen: It was never a rule to begin with.” Then, realizing the gravity of admitting
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking
comic who influenced
generations, dead at 87
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 1:16:37 PM
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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WPost reporter explains her
personal Gosnell blackout
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Patheos.com, by "Mollie"
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Posted By: LComStaff- 4/12/2013 9:42:16 AM
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I’ve been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many others. If you haven’t read David Shaw’s “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should. That report also explains why we cover the topic here at GetReligion.But the thing is that I’m getting kind of sick of pointing out egregious bias only to see things not just remain bad but get worse. Just think, in the last year, we saw the media drop any pretense of objectivity and bully the Susan G. Komen Foundation
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