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Book Excerpt: ‘Seize the Day Job’ — Part 1

by Carl Kozlowski, posted Nov 21st 2009 at 5:44 pm

...u ever driven your car away from the auto shop and had the uneasy feeling that the entire staff there was laughing like hyenas at you behind your back? That is a common feeling, and there is... (5 Comments)

For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 6

by Leo Grin, posted Nov 21st 2009 at 10:54 am

...d have been happy. He was a genius. The respect was mutual. Near the end of filming, Ford took a nasty fall off of a studio scaffold and fractured his leg (“Jesus Christ, you clumsy bastar... (12 Comments)

Steve Ditko’s ‘The Ever Unreachable’

by Batton Lash, posted Nov 21st 2009 at 7:03 am

...the burden of proof. 44. The irrational always seek some unearned, undeserved benefit and always seek to blame the authentic producers for failures caused by the irrational power luster wh... (56 Comments)

Pledge of Allegiance to Dissent: An Intolerant ‘Excess of Liberty’?

by Adam Baldwin, posted Nov 20th 2009 at 3:12 pm

...y the Pledge, or Star Spangled Banner, replacing those with near meaningless vagaries like “Appropriate patriotic exercises also include, but are not limited to, songs, poems, quotations a... (192 Comments)

Daily Gut: ObamaCare Opponents Are All Child Killers

by Greg Gutfeld, posted Nov 19th 2009 at 12:21 pm

...ng to kill these kids. Which is yucky, I guess – but underneath this lie is an even more outlandish one: that these artists actually give a crap about kids. What they care about, really, i... (94 Comments)

Fear, Children, & Video – Ingredients for Obama’s Weapon of Mass Persuasion

by Patrick Courrielche, posted Nov 19th 2009 at 5:01 am

...fford health insurance. After the first year of the program nearly 1 million children were enrolled. Flash forward to January of 2009. “Either you are for kids or not for kids,” ... (75 Comments)

‘Progressive’ Hollywood Fails Women Where Old Studio System Did Not

by John Nolte, posted Nov 18th 2009 at 2:55 pm

... Kelly and many, many others worked as regularly and earned nearly as much success (and sometimes more) as their male counterparts in all kinds of films, including big-budget prestige pictu... (89 Comments)

Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’ Flops: Even Liberals Stay Away in Droves

by John Nolte, posted Nov 18th 2009 at 9:36 am

After nearly two months in theaters and all the hype that normally surrounds a Michael Moore film — much of it free thanks to a fawning media, “Capitalism: A Love Story” h... (148 Comments)

The PETA Standard: Former Spokeswoman Dumps Inconvenient Puppies

by Pam Meister, posted Nov 18th 2009 at 8:25 am

...acing shelter animals is pretty pathetic: Despite taking in nearly $30 million each year, it put to death 90 percent of the dogs and cats it took in over a five-year period. I guess activi... (109 Comments)

‘The Blind Side’: Predictable Critics, Predictable Criticism

by Dallas Jenkins, posted Nov 18th 2009 at 5:04 am

...rms “racist” and “paternalistic” in nearly every article. In the Huffington Post, Mark Blankenship (whose bio mentions the NY Times, Variety, and Village Voice as out... (145 Comments)

‘Green Zone’ Trailer: Matt Damon Goes to Iraq to Fight…Americans?

by John Nolte, posted Nov 17th 2009 at 12:32 pm

...7;s The United States of America personified by the Greg Kinnear character. Look fast for my favorite part of the trailer at the 1:42 mark after Kinnear appears to order Damon’s assass... (137 Comments)

Political Correctness, Ft. Hood, and Hollywood

by Mark Tapson, posted Nov 17th 2009 at 4:48 am

... that Hasan was the victim, not the fourteen dead* and the nearly thirty seriously wounded that he left in his heartless wake. Even as a mountain of accumulating evidence irrefutably expose... (139 Comments)

NBC’s ObamaVision: Will Peacock’s News Division Expose the Alarmism?

by Patrick Courrielche, posted Nov 16th 2009 at 6:44 am

...if she were to have two children, this would eventually add nearly 40 times that amount of CO2 to the earth’s atmosphere. The decision of having fewer children decreases the carbon legacy ... (92 Comments)

‘Poliwood’: One-Sided, Occasionally Fascinating Look at Politics and Celebrity

by Christian Toto, posted Nov 13th 2009 at 3:04 pm

...ack their bags for the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, they look as if they’re preparing for a funeral. “She’s All That” actress Rachael Leigh Cook is forlorn when she... (40 Comments)

‘The Demands of Political Correctness’

by Adam Baldwin, posted Nov 13th 2009 at 1:18 pm

...troversial (even deadly) political and cultural issue: The NEA’s coordinated falsehood with the White House that the organization’s infamous conference call “was not a means to promo... (176 Comments)

‘2012′: Silly Bombastic Fun

by Carl Kozlowski, posted Nov 13th 2009 at 9:05 am

...part in a good old-fashioned disaster movie, then check out nearly any Roland Emmerich film: “Independence Day,” “Godzilla,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “10,000 B.C.” provid... (125 Comments)

Burt’s Eye View: Hollywood Elitists Through the Ages

by Burt Prelutsky, posted Nov 12th 2009 at 8:23 am

... It’s my guess that a majority of those involved with the NEA — even those few who are talented — are always eager to roll over for left-wing politicians. Partly it’s becau... (100 Comments)

NEWLY REVEALED DOCUMENTS Contradict NEA Chairman Landesman

by Patrick Courrielche, posted Nov 12th 2009 at 5:03 am

“The former NEA Director of Communications acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell.” – Rocco Landesman, C... (192 Comments)

Part 2: The Super-Hero’s American Exceptionalism

by Mort Todd, posted Nov 11th 2009 at 2:05 pm

...rmed the Justice League in a nod to one-worldness. It’s nearly impossible to find a comic that doesn’t star an angst-ridden anti-hero. The end of exceptional American super-heroes is h... (143 Comments)

Who You Calling Republican?

by Tom Shillue, posted Nov 11th 2009 at 8:23 am

...ye, and I’m trying to communicate with them, which is nearly impossible to do when people’s reaction to certain buzzwords is to shut down, tune you out, and change the channel to... (92 Comments)

PRESENTING: The ‘Fourth Graders For Obama’ YouTube Channel

by John Nolte, posted Nov 11th 2009 at 5:09 am

...l.) Yes, you read that right, an entire portal filled with nearly a dozen videos devoted to nine and ten year-olds singing, speaking and in general, getting awfully excited over a politicia... (71 Comments)

How to Kill a Terrorist

by Robert J. Avrech, posted Nov 10th 2009 at 6:45 am

...ws have lived, worked and fought since Biblical times. The unearthly light makes a final golden splash. My wife Karen and I are visiting Karen’s brother David, his wife Elana, and thei... (119 Comments)

Natalie Portman: Meat’s a Sin, Free Polanski

by Pam Meister, posted Nov 9th 2009 at 6:44 am

...eggie dogs and burgers to cookouts. I’m still teased, nearly a decade later, about the lentil loaf I brought to a holiday meal – Thanksgiving or Christmas; I can’t remember... (263 Comments)

Movies We Like: ‘Godzilla, King of the Monsters’ (1956)

by Kurt Schlichter, posted Nov 8th 2009 at 6:24 am

...ion the A-bombs ensured never happened. I also served for nearly two decades in the 40th Infantry Division, which was scheduled to be the first to hit the beaches and probably would have b... (50 Comments)

Review: ‘V’ in the World of ‘O’

by John P. Hanlon, posted Nov 7th 2009 at 5:47 pm

...us but the scene works here because it creates a clear delineation between the image of the Vs that their leader is trying to present and the conspiracy theories about them that the visit... (67 Comments)

When Will Some Brave Comedian Spoof Jon Stewart?

by John Nolte, posted Nov 7th 2009 at 1:04 pm

...od luck slogging through the last half. As my mind wandered near the end two questions suddenly came to me: Why won’t Michelle Pfeiffer take my calls and other than Keith Olbermann, w... (256 Comments)

For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 4

by Leo Grin, posted Nov 7th 2009 at 10:43 am

...again and again, despite Ford’s multiple attempts to sneak them past the censors. We must allow for this artistic meddling before thoughtlessly damning our forefathers for the crime of... (33 Comments)

‘Sesame Street’: It’s About My Children, Not the Puppet

by Stage Right, posted Nov 6th 2009 at 1:49 pm

Just as I suspected, it has happened. They are trying to “Falwell” me and my colleagues here at Big Hollywood for raising concerns about “Sesame Street’s” description of... (87 Comments)

‘Washington Post’ Endorses Plagiarism to Defend Obama

by Ben Shapiro, posted Nov 6th 2009 at 11:49 am

...n’t regarding this admin. We had the ACORN story, the NEA propaganda conference call. All hard news stories. And so is this. Shapiro is a Harvard law grad. He is hardly worthy of this ... (123 Comments)

Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Charity Vs. Big Government

by Darin Miller, posted Nov 6th 2009 at 10:48 am

...t’s visit, he shows Scrooge two scrawny children hidden beneath his cloak. They are Ignorance and Want. “They are man’s,” the ghost tells Scrooge. The ghost attacks Scrooge’s philo... (106 Comments)

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