Imagine this cinematic scenario: Superman, America's most famous superhero, saves a helpless baby in a perilous situation. Flying in at the last moment, our hero swoops up the helpless, adorable baby and places him safely in his anxious mother's arms ...
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A cornerstone of the free market -- and the individual initiative that keeps it running -- is the idea that any new invention or product will be protected by law against copycats who didn't do the work or invent anything, ...
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The so-called "Chemical Security Act" recently introduced by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) is laboring under a monstrous misnomer. By essentially placing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in charge of security requirement at the nation's private and public chemical facilities, the ...
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Saddam Hussein, Mohamed Atta, Zaccarias Moussaoui, John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and... Tom Daschle? Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) is no terrorist. Nor is he a terrorist sympathizer. But he is refusing to grant the President the ability to ...
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In the classic film Casablanca, the Gestapo orders Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) to close the saloon owned by Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine. Needing a pretext, Renault seizes the law against gambling: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is ...
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Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic National Committee Chairman, puts the "P" in partisan. As attack dogs go, he's the pit bull that Democrats believe they need to lead their party. When he rails against President George W. Bush, corporate corruption and ...
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It's been over a year since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and life is not back to what once passed for normal. Maybe it never will be. Maybe it shouldn't be. Maybe normal is what got us into ...
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When it seems black cinema is preoccupied with excusing the worst elements of the African-American experience, "Barbershop," has taken the novel approach of celebrating its best elements. It features a lively and very likeable cast exchanging intelligent dialogue in an ...
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Entertainer Harry Belafonte recently made some vicious, vile and disparaging remarks about Secretary of State Colin Powell during a San Diego radio interview. Belafonte made a belittling and mindless comparison between Powell and a slave who lived in the plantation ...
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Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic National Committee Chairman, puts the "P" in partisan. As attack dogs go, he's the pit bull that Democrats believe they need to lead their party. When he rails against President George W. Bush, corporate corruption and ...
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