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Released yesterday, it’s only the teaser trailer, but it looks really good. I like the darkening tone and somber mood, plus the actor playing the young Tom Riddle seems like a really good fit (I believe it is actually Ralph Fiennes’ nephew).
The HBP is one of my favorite books in the series (I like Four and [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today that he is not going to run again as leader of the Kadima Party after the September 17 primary elections. He’s leaving it for his Kadima successor to try and put together a governing coalition.
I’m not an Olmert fan — two summers ago, shelling an border fighting caused two Israelis to be taken [...]
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Former Senate Pro-Temp Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R) was indicted today on seven counts of making false statements about gifts he received from an oil contractor seeking Washington’s help. It’s evident that from 1999-2006 Stevens was making false statements about this relationship. The issue is not bribery, however, just an 84 year old forgetting about gifts [...]
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…if you want it to!
A major problem with having state-controlled health care as a “right” is that they can deny you access or care if your situation is not in the state’s economic best-interest. We’ll see loving ol’ grandmas and thirty something drunks fighting over access to livers — maybe grandma or the lush will die waiting [...]
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The Boston Red Sox have a problem: Manny Ramirez is a great player, just not a great team player. Lately he’s been verbally and physically confrontational with his team and staff and the management have been equally vocal about Ramirez’s behavior. He even missed Game 1 in their latest series against the New York Yankees, showing up to [...]
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Is anyone else getting sick of all this? I remember at the end the last NFL season, the great Brett Favre finally retired. Everyone was nostalgic, some even perplexed since he obviously still had talent, even I here at AOR provided a glowing post as a career epitaph for a man who always looked like he was [...]
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WARNING: No true spoilers, just a lot of “insider baseball” in regards to the fantasy genre.
Thus far, Christopher Nolan’s take on Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One series is leaps and bounds better than any of those goofy Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney movies, which all seemed too comic-like to be [...]
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President Bush announced today that he is rescinding his father’s Executive Order which banned off-shore oil drilling. And it’s about time in my opinion! What’s interesting about this development is that Congress imposed it’s own separate ban, meaning that if off-shore drilling were to take place, both branches would have to agree. Now, it’s solely in [...]
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The Belgian brewing company InBev is going to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52 million. While many details are still being negotiated, the deal will probably become reality. If that is the case then, in my opinion there are two different ways of looking at this:
1. This is a dark day for America. As the Belgians buy-out the largest beer producer [...]
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Well, the first part of that isn’t entirely true, but I did spend fifteen months writing a rather long historiographical thesis on Theodore Roosevelt back in college. In that work I used some of John McCain’s campaign rhetoric from early 2000 as evidence of TR’s increasing influence amongst politicians of both parties today (I also quoted [...]
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All decent human beings are saddened by Tony Snow’s death. Which brings me to the AP and the New York Slimes. On the very day Tony Snow passes away, the AP projected their own failures on to the brilliant and decent man:
With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook [...]
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Former White House Press Secretary, radio talk-show host, moderator of “Fox News Sunday,” and former speechwriter for Bush 41, Tony Snow finally succumbed to the colon cancer he had been battling for a few years now when he died at about 2am Saturday morning at Georgetown University Hospital. Although they had removed his colon a [...]
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Wednesday, Phil Gramm, former Senator from Texas and Presidential candidate back in 1996, said the following in an interview with the Washington Times:
“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal [...]
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The US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, was attacked today by four men in what the American and Turkish authorities are calling an act of terrorism. Three of the attackers were killed, but not before taking out three policemen, one point blank to the head. The fourth attacker unfortunately got away in a speeding car, as [...]
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For the first time in the history of scientific polling, Congress, which happens to be controlled at present by Democrats, has reached a new all-time low of a 9% positive approval rating in the latest Rasmussen poll! Splitting it up, that’s 2% excellent and 7% good, 36% fair, and 52% poor.
Yet, for some reason on a generic [...]
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Roger Federer is the best male tennis player in the world in my opinion. Watching him play is like watching an artist paint a great work. He has recently won five consecutive Wimbledon Championships before being defeated in a dramatic fashion by the young clay wizard, Rafael Nadal yesterday [6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-7 (8-10), 9-7].
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It was very difficult writing any post that would push down Catherine Bell from front-and-center, but Marc Thiessen writes an informative piece today putting the late Conservative icon, North Carolinian Senator Jesse Helms (1921-2008), into a meaningful and positive historical context. He was a Conservative before it was popular even amongst Republicans, and was sometimes the only [...]
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