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…vilify business owners and divide us based upon income level and class envy. Read between the lines and it has become painfully obvious that this president appears to be nothing more than a front man for powerful unions with global aspirations. Unions with bosses who believe they are the new, unelected policy makers and social architects. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial written by ex-union boss Andy Stern. And t…
… an equal level of poverty. And since the environment has actually improved over the last four decades, “Progressives” can’t rely on facts to win arguments for their cause. They must invent crises, including global warming, climate change, or whatever else they’re calling it these days, in order to constrain energy resources, drive up prices and enforce global equality. Ann McElhinney produced the film rebuttal to Al Gore,…
The news is in – Lion’s Gate’s Hunger Games brought in a whopping $155m at the domestic box office in this, its debut weekend, making it the third highest opening weekend ever, just behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($168M), and The Dark Knight (158M). Hunger Games is clearly every bit the huge hit that analysts and fans have been predicting. Hunger Games’ global total was $214M, including $59.3m from 67 foreign countries, sug…
This part two of a three part series entitled John Carter, the Flop that Wasn’t a Turkey. You can read Part One here. On April 20, 2012 Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross resigned in the wake of the release of John Carter, a film that had earned $269M at the global box office in the six weeks of its theatrical run but which, because of its high cost of production and marketing, caused the studio to take a $200M write-down in the first quarter …
… California’s tax and energy policies. Were California to shut down its entire manufacturing sector, turn off its power plants, idle its trucks and automobiles, and order its citizens to stop exhaling, the impact on the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide would be immaterial. So California’s energy policies cannot be directed at singlehandedly saving the planet from cataclysmic global warming. Rather, its enlightened le…
…n, says ,“No matter what the circumstances, I am going to keep it cool”, “if given a choice, I choose cool” and “I never play the fool like politics as usual, I keep it cool.” By contrast, Will Ferrell as George Bush in this Global Warming sketch states, “I have no idea what the hell I am talking about” and “They are making me look bad, using facts.” Really!?! No, really!?! Really!?! Lorne Michaels?! Really… Lorne Michaels, who maxed o…
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…rience “torture” at some time in our lives, and it was not always evil. We take the easy way out and redefine it. One cannot deny that those incarcerated at Pelican Bay, any institutionalized “death row.”, or the best of any Global prison is not an arguable form of “penance”, if only severe punishment, defined by some. They, who would “lead”, are willing to take “risks” for the greater good and “decide.” And this will be so; for as long as man…
…0 pages or more and never repeat myself and maybe I will in the future, but for now, I am going to spend the rest of my afternoon relaxing. I have a big week coming up. * See my prior article on the Screen Actor’s Guild and Global Rule One printed earlier in this column. © 2010 by Frank T. DeMartini. Permission to be copied will be freely granted. …
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