In Oklahoma, the joke was that you could tell an Okie because he was the one standing outside during the thunderstorm…yes, I know about storm radio, and our town had a siren, but unless you wanted to spend half your time in the shelter, you watched the sky, especially when the clouds were dark, and [...]

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Today we take a look at Sway, another 2006 documentary from New York film maker Richard Sandler. The subject of Sway is the New York subway, and is the culmination of 14 years worth of video taping. New York to many of us is an anathema, a huge sprawling mass of humanity most of which [...]

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Here is one the MSM will run away from as fast as they can. Missouri’s William “Lacy” Clay (D, MO) used Barack Hussein Obama’s startling Missouri win as a chance to play the race card against whites. During the post primary rally Clay fired up the crowd with some hearty “they’re all against us” rhetoric [...]

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Nick is fixing Noah’s hair when Noah asks him how come his grandpa is so mad at him. Nick tries to explain it to him by using them as an example. Phyllis comes in and tells Noah that he looks great. She tells Nick not to worry, that today will be a good day. She [...]

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Carly sees the dummy in the fireplace burning and grabs the poker to pull it out. She starts yelling for Parker and tells him she is sick of his lying to her. He said he didn’t do it but Carly doesn’t believe him. She says she is calling Jack. Parker tells her fine call him. [...]

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The family tries to talk Colleen into going back to Salem to get help. She says it is too late for that. The cancer has been there for a long time. She has finally gotten to do what she set out to do a long time ago. She has seen her little brother again. John [...]

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With just two years to go before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Poverty Olympics were held on Sunday. Participants marched up Hastings St. to Carnegie Center on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside carrying an Olympic torch and a banner in which the Olympic rings were handcuffs. Inside the Carnegie Center theatre, a packed audience watched as [...]

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After the critical success of 2002′s City of God, producer/director Fernando Meirelles went on to produce a television show with the same actors entitled “City of Men.” Now in 2008, with director Paolo Morelli (a collaborator on the television show) Meirelles has produced City of Men, something of a sequel to City of God and [...]

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The Continuing Story of Pet Goth Girl,  Tasha Maltby “I’m a pet,” says Maltby. But she was angry when the Bus Company Treated as a Pet  What’s a Goth to do?  The story of another Brave Group–The Goths– “Who Only Just Want to Be Different”. And they are treated exactly that way, but decide to [...]

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Just a quick note to let Publius Forum visitors know that I was quoted in the Washington Times today. Writer Jennifer Harper had emailed me the other day for my impression on the media during this election cycle. She featured my opinion up front in the story. Go check it out: “Press coverage dry run [...]

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I have been surprised and dismayed over some of the reactions from prominent Republicans to John McCain’s recent success.  As many of you know, Rush Limbaugh has denounced McCain and said that if McCain is the Republican nominee, he would prefer that the Democrats win the election.  Ann Coulter went on Hannity & Colmes the [...]

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Actually, all I got was this lousy headache. Well, that, and the unwanted sense of the increasingly looming inevitability of a McCain nomination. Now hold on just a minute. I’ll have everyone know I’m not suffering from McCain Derangement Syndrome. Not like the desperate caller I heard just moments ago on C-Span who wondered if [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog It sickens me every time I think of how the Bush administration was either stupid or sold their democratic principles down the river. Bush and the neocons have beaten the drum to death that the only way to stop terrorism is to democratize Islamic countries. But what they have done [...]

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You might remember the terrorist’s best friend, Lynne Stewart? She was the so-called lawyer who was convicted of collusion with terrorists in 2005 for helping Omar Abdel-Rahman to plot with other terrorists as he sat in Federal custody. She ferried secret communications between Abdul-Rahman and his terror pals on the outside while she was pretending [...]

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When I was a child, one of our playtime slogans was “the only good Indian is a dead one!”  Now the unspoken equivalent is the only good young African American male is in prison.  The Sentencing Project from which the grim subject quote is taken works actively to redress the imbalance in our sentencing of [...]

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Today is Ash Wednesday and the penitential season of Lent is again with us. Traditionally the season recalls a period of penitential observances in our sacred rituals. We actively participate in fasting, abstinence and other devotions such as Stations of the Cross that help all of us journey through this contemplative and austere period of [...]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether. Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot Blog Initially many of us found the news that over one fifth the British population believed Sir Winston Churchill to be nothing more than myth shocking, breathtaking, unnerving, infuriating, and deeply depressing.  However, there is a bright side!  As the Left clips along in its campaign to make the real false and [...]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama. Since none of [...]

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In what was up until recently thought to be purely impossible for German teachers to achieve, numbers now indicate that the cases of Dienstunfähigkeit (disability for service – not to be confused with inability of service – really early retirement, in other words) for German teaching mandarin-type class profession professionals has dropped considerably and that [...]

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Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief, has been known to hail Palestinians as “victims” before. He has also been known often to blame Israel for all the ills suffered by Palestinians, so Fletcher is an expert at assigning blame while excusing the behavior of Palestinians. Here is a story that fits [...]

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Archbishop Cruz, the former head of the Philippine bishop’s conference, is always on a crusade. Last week he was in the news for preventing a flashy “priest healer” from performing miracles in his diocese. The week before, he was denouncing government corruption….well, actually, almost every week he is denouncing government corruption of one sort or [...]

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