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Moore: "America is not broke" By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel March 5, 2011 2:43 p.m. |(64) Comments Madison - "America is not broke," filmmaker Michael Moore declared in a speech to pro-labor demonstrators Saturday at the state Capitol. "The country is awash in wealth and cash," he said. "It's just not in your hands." He said wealth has been transferred "in the greatest heist in history" from the workers to the bankers and the super-rich. "Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic," he said. Moore called Gov. Scott Walker "your soon to be...

MICHAEL Moore's new film "Sicko," a critique of the U.S. health-care system and paean to socialized medicine around the world, premiered amid great fanfare at Cannes last month. Time magazine reviewer Richard Corliss rejoiced, "The upside of this populist documentary is that there are no policy wonks crunching numbers." Wouldn't want anyone messing up Moore's fantasy with . . . facts. The American health-care system undeniably has serious problems, and Moore effectively dramatizes the suffering of people caught up in them. Yet he often exaggerates those problems. For example, he frequently refers to the 47 million Americans without health insurance,...

<p>I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.</p>

Friends, Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war. Make no mistake about it: We, the majority of Americans, want this war ended -- and we will actively work to defeat each and every one of you who does not support an immediate end to this war. Nearly every Democrat set to run for president in 2008 is responsible for this war. They voted for it or they supported it. That...

Michael Moore has made a career of butting heads with bigwigs. His documentaries, laced with satire on politics and society, have taken aim at General Motors Corp. (Roger & Me), the National Rifle Association (Bowling for Columbine, the 2002 Oscar winner) and U.S. President George W. Bush (Fahrenheit 9/11). Still in the works is Sicko, a none-too-flattering perspective on the U.S. health-care system. And he's overseeing the second annual Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan, which he established last year with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams. More than 70 films, many independently produced, will be shown in...