What the Democrats Can Learn from the Beatles

Forty years ago this week the cover photo for the “Abbey Road” album was taken, representing the final walk of the Beatles as a rock group.

Fourteen days later, on August 22nd, they posed together for a final promotional photo shoot, which was their last appearance together at any Beatles event. Although one more album was released (”Let it Be”), “Abbey Road” was the last album recorded by the band, which was already virtually dissolved as a unit. Yet the album was a great artistic and commercial success. The “Let it Be” album was intended to be released first, but the group did not think it ready. They moved on to record “Abbey Road” and released it on September 26th and October 1st, 1969, respectively, in the UK and the US. The cover photo, fittingly designed by Paul (as he was the only member who had a passion to keep the group together; even as he finally sued to end the partnership), depicts the band’s final crossing of “Abbey Road,” toward their studio home of the prior eight years. Ironically, even bizarrely, convicted murderer and “wall of sound” creator, Phil Specter, did the final mixing in 1970 of several songs on “Let it Be,” almost as an audition. He was not aware there would be no more Beatles, although he did some work for Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band. (more…)

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Tags: "Across the Universe", "Buddy Holly and the Crickets", "I Wanna be Your Man", "Let it Be", Abbey Road
Posted Aug 12th 2009 at 10:50 am in Culture, Politics | 20353084 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrulle/2009/08/12/meet-the-beatles-aug-9-noon/What+the+Democrats+Can+Learn+from+the+Beatles2009-08-12+17%3A50%3A35Michael+S.+Rulle+Jr.

The End of Reverse Discrimination?

Reverse Discrimination, according to Wikipedia, is defined as, “the practice of favoring members of a historically disadvantaged group at the expense of members of a historically advantaged group.”  Since the 1964 Civil Rights Act when the phrase came into usage, it has been practiced in many different ways.  Some examples include employment practices and college admissions.  A more euphemistic way of saying reverse discrimination would be “affirmative action.”  However you say it, it is still discrimination plain and simple.

The United States Supreme Court tackled the issue in the seminal case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 US 265 (1978).  In that case, the Court found that race could only be one of numerous factors in determining admission to a university.  It stated that the University of California policy was unconstitutional, but that the policy used by Harvard was a valid type of affirmative action.  The result was that Mr. Bakke was admitted to medical school and became a respected physician. (more…)

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Tags: affirmative action, Bakke, discrimination, Harvard, Politics
Posted Jul 6th 2009 at 7:03 am in Politics | 17489886 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/07/06/the-end-of-reverse-discrimination/The+End+of+Reverse+Discrimination%3F2009-07-06+14%3A03%3A33Frank+DeMartini

Liberal Bait and Switch

I got a question about these embryos we’re going to destroy in the name of science. Are they white, or black? Hey, it don’t matter to me; they all look the same. But I really don’t want to get into hot water later. What kind of hot water? Well, the kind William Bennett found himself eyeball deep in when he said if “…[Y]ou wanted to reduce crime, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.”

Outrage, hysteria, fire and brimstone followed, most of it from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who demanded an apology. Never mind the fact that Bennett had clarified, “That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,” this was a situation that, like slavery, apparently, could only be rectified with an apology. What good would an apology do, anyway? He still said it. It’s not like court, where it can be stricken from the record. And would it really satisfy Reid and Pelosi? Of course not, they just wanted to see a talk radio host begging forgiveness. (more…)

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Tags: affirmative action, embryonic stem cell, Harry Reid, Katie Couric, michael moore
Posted Mar 18th 2009 at 10:22 am in Political Humor | 8224624 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2009/03/18/liberal-bait-and-switch/Liberal+Bait+and+Switch2009-03-18+17%3A22%3A25Cam+Cannon

A 12-Step Liberal Recovery Program

Most 12-step programs start out by requiring that people understand that they’re powerless over their addiction and that only by turning their lives over to a Power greater than themselves can they be restored to sanity.  Far be it for me to suggest that I am that Power, but clearly someone has to step in and try to rescue these poor liberal souls.  Even the most harebrained among them deserves that much.

First, though, they have to acknowledge that Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Dick Durbin, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid and Charles Schumer, are not moderates, but, rather, leftists with a Socialist agenda.  Furthermore, they must recognize that the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, CNN, the three major networks, the news magazines and the New Yorker, are not objective in their reporting of political events, and neither are Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher, in their commentary.  If these entities and individuals are not on the payroll of the DNC, they certainly should be.  They certainly put in longer hours than Howard Dean. (more…)

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Tags: "under God", 10 Commandments, 12-step programs, abc, ACLU
Posted Mar 6th 2009 at 2:42 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 7413869 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/03/06/a-12-step-liberal-recovery-program/A+12-Step+Liberal+Recovery+Program2009-03-06+22%3A42%3A04Burt+Prelutsky

I’m a Racist Coward!

I am appalled.  I just found out that I am a racist and a coward and I did not know it.

Eric Holder said yesterday, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

How could I have been so self-deluded?

Wow.  I know, huh?  The things you find out about yourself if you just listen to newly appointed/elected government officials.  (more…)

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Tags: affirmative action, Cowards for not talking about race, dr. martin luther king, Eric Holder
Posted Feb 19th 2009 at 12:51 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 55306470 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/I%27m+a+Racist+Coward%212009-02-19+20%3A51%3A35Gary+Graham