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If you were to think of the most out-of-left-field actress to play Harriet Tubman in a movie, you still wouldn’t stumble upon the person one executive allegedly suggested. Harriet, the historical drama based on Tubman’s life released earlier this month, stars Cynthia Erivo. But the film’s screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, says when he first started working on the movie in 1994 that one studio executive suggested Julia Roberts to portray the legendary slave turned abolitionist. Yes, that Julia Roberts. In a Q&A with Allen published earlier this month by Harriet studio Focus Features (and reiterated in an L.A....

...As Thomas Sowell notes, Democrats value black votes but not black voters. Democrats need black voters to be fearful, angry, resentful and paranoid. Black votes matter. If Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined. That is what Democrats are terrified of. That can only happen if blacks are denied the truth about their past, present, and future. It is Democrats who owned the slaves, founded the KKK, and wrote the Jim Crow laws. It is Democrats who stood in the schoolhouse door and still do, opposing school choice. It is Democrats who turned on...

Too few Americans are qualified for the jobs available. Male working-age labor-force participation is at Depression-era lows. Opioid abuse is widespread. Homicidal violence plagues inner cities. Almost half of all children are born out of wedlock, and even more are raised by single mothers. Many college students lack basic skills, and high school students rank below those from two dozen other countries. The causes of these phenomena are multiple and complex, but implicated in these and other maladies is the breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture. That culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow: Get married...

Harriet Tubman is going to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, according to a report. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to make the announcement on Wednesday, according to Politico. Sources told the site that he has also decided to keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 bill.

Before the Pritchetts and Dunphys, or the Cosbys, or the Bradys -- before the Cleavers, even -- there were Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons, David and Ricky. For 14 years and 435 episodes, the Nelsons starred in a TV show about themselves, filmed on sets that replicated their own Los Angeles home. They invited America into their living room from 1952 to 1966, and hundreds of thousands of American families returned the favor. Even now, the phrase "Ozzie and Harriet" is practically synonymous with clean-scrubbed 1950s America.

This is an archive of the saga of Gary and Harriet, two snails in love. Gary was a wild and crazy guy who met Harriet, and as a consequence, settled down to married life with children. He has stepped up to the plate and become a caring father and a great husband. Harriet is a happy mom who loves her family dearly. We follow their journey using their own family photos, and look forward to each new entry with happy anticipation. But the story isn't here; it's in the body of the thread in pictures. They are, of course, Conservative,...

Conservatives and liberals alike battered White House counsel Harriet Miers during her 24-day rise and fall as a Supreme Court nominee. Critics questioned her experience, her judicial beliefs and her grasp of constitutional law. Now, preparing to leave the White House more than a year after the ordeal, Miers says she doesn't regret the experience. After being nominated, she heard from childhood friends. Strangers came up to her to say they were happy for her. ''Through the course of the nomination there were some ugly -- I thought unjustified -- comments,'' Miers said in an interview in her West Wing...

White House Counsel Harriet Miers, the Supreme Court nominee who withdrew after a conservative revolt last fall, has allegedly vetoed several recommendations offered by conservatives to fill vacancies on federal courts. The White House would not directly respond to the charge, which was made this morning during a conference call with more than 40 conservative leaders. Two people on the call—whose identities I promised to keep confidential—said they had inside knowledge of the recommended nominees whom Miers nixed.

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Bush Abandons Push for Miers Nomination Oct 27 3:04 PM US/Eastern Email this story By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party." The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush's conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity,...

Conservative Women's Group Calls for Miers's Withdrawal Nominee Resubmits Questionnaire A WALL STREET JOURNAL NEWS ROUNDUP October 27, 2005; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- Conservative opposition to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers spread as the Concerned Women for America, the largest women's association of social conservatives, called for her withdrawal. The move came after the group reviewed a 1993 speech by Ms. Miers that raised questions about whether she would oppose the constitutional underpinnings of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion-rights ruling. (See transcript of speech.) "We believe that far better qualified candidates were overlooked and that Miss Miers's record fails...

Point Man for Miers Juggles Allegiances Legal Conservative Risks Credibility By Helping Bush Defuse Criticism Of High Court Nominee By JEANNE CUMMINGS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 26, 2005; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- As legal conservatives mobilize against Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Leonard Leo has been the point man trying to defuse their campaign. In emails and telephone calls, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society is urging fellow conservatives to withhold judgment. "I have had the benefit of being able to witness firsthand the way in which Harriet Miers thinks about the role of...

Republicans Push for Nov. 7 Start For Miers' Confirmation Hearings Associated Press October 17, 2005 11:40 p.m. WASHINGTON -- At the White House, President Bush began a third week of trying to stem criticism from conservatives that he picked a crony without necessary qualifications for the court. The president met with six former Texas supreme court justices who traveled to Washington to serve as character witnesses for Ms. Miers, a 60-year-old former private practice lawyer who is currently White House chief counsel. "They're here to send a message ... that the person I picked to take (retiring Justice) Sandra Day...

From the Magazine | Notebook Mike Allen: Why They Can't Hit The Right Note With even Laura off-key on Miers, Bush plans to change the message—again Posted Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005 Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving from what they call a "biographical phase" to an "accomplishment phase." In other words, stop debating her religion and personality and start focusing on her resume as a pioneering female lawyer of the Southwest. "We got a little...

The "Just Say NO to Miers" Coalition ... ... ... ... ...From Left to Right: George Will, Laura Ingraham, David Frum, Ann Coulter, Bill Kristol, Melanie Morgan ======================================================================== GEORGE WILL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100400954.htmlCHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601468.html?sub=ARANN COULTER: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgiDAVID FRUM: http://frum.nationalreview.com/PAT BUCHANAN: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9539LAURA INGRAHAM: http://www.lauraingraham.com/ROBERT BORK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9623345/BILL KRISTOL: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/166quhvd.aspMONA CHAREN: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/monacharen/2005/10/07/159703.htmlTERRENCE JEFFREY: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/column/terencejeffrey/2005/10/05/159416.htmlMICHELLE MALKIN: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin100605.php3BOBBY EBERLE - GOPUSA: http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=49MELANIE MORGAN: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46824PEGGY NOONAN: http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110007363MICHAEL GRAHAM: http://www.free-times.com/Usual_Suspects/suspects.htmlJOHN PODHORETZ: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/29257.htmPHYLLIS SCHLAFLY: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9684NATIONAL REVIEW EDITORIAL BOARD: http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200510141544.asp

Firm takes heat for cons’ crimes Settled suits cost top-tier legal entity $30 million, with more pending By Janet Elliott Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau (10-21-01) Locke Liddell and Sapp is one of Texas’ premier law firms, having represented some of the state’s top corporations and individuals, including George W. Bush when he was governor and general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. But it is two other former clients, convicted swindlers Russell Erxleben and Brian Stearns, who have brought unwanted attention to the 426-lawyer firm with offices in Houston and several other cities. In the past two years, Locke...

The other day I wrote that Bush threw us a curve ball by nominating Harriet Miers to the high court. I think I was wrong, as Bush's curve ball was actually a boomerang that is headed straight back at his skull. Reaction to Miers has been swift and unkind, but It seems that most of it is coming from the right instead of the left. Two days ago, Rush grilled VP Cheney about the nomination (I didn't hear the whole thing, but the big man was not happy) and George Will's piece on townhall.com was scathing to say the least....

In handwritten notes on the last page of Harriet Miers' 1989 "gay rights" candidate questionnaire, one of the homosexual activists who interviewed the candidate ascribes to Miers' opening statement the following comment: "My personal conviction is not consistent with (the) homosexual lifestyle...(or)...to decriminalize (homosexual) behavior."

For the moment, George Bush can stop worrying about where Harriet Miers stands on abortion. The larger question is soon about to be an even messier one: How exactly does Ms. Miers fit into the never-ending George Bush National Guard controversy and the Texas Lottery pay-off scandals? Here we go again.