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Don’t wait for Tuesday’s votes. The results are already in. Hateful lies and violence are winning. Trumpian politicians pushing the fear button on race, crime and immigration feel good about the polls.

Sony Pictures Television is in very early stages of rebooting several classic sitcoms from TV legend Norman Lear as miniseries — including “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” and “Good Times” — Variety has learned exclusively. The idea currently being discussed by Lear and Sony executives would be to have new actors recreate classic episodes of the shows, working from the original scripts, and package them as short, six-episode anthologies. The scripts would be treated similar to plays being mounted in new productions. “There is some talk about doing some of the original shows, redoing them with today’s stars,” Lear...

For college students especially, American Thanksgiving might be one of the best holidays of the year. Free food and childhood nostalgia can easily eclipse its dirty origin story. In truth, Thanksgiving has racist roots that are widely ignored by the American public. The glorification of colonialism and stereotyping of Native Americans should make anyone, regardless of race, pause and consider the cultural racism that has been a part of our childhood socialization.

In ways that immediately brought to mind dangerous parallels with the yellow Star of David patch worn by Jews during the Third Reich, Donald Trump in November suggested that Syrian refugees, posing as allegedly dangerous Fifth Columnists, should wear badges on account of their Muslim faith so that they could not infiltrate American society and carry out plots against the nation. When asked by a reporter whether he thought the comparison with Nazi Germany was a fair one, Trump responded "you tell me." So shocking have been these and similar statements that not just liberal voices and outlets, but even...

With a manhunt still underway for the person responsible for the massacre 9 people in a Charleston, South Carolina church, already the Left is exploiting the shooting deaths of nine innocents to further their political agenda. Salon is demanding all of “white America answer for” these murders: The story is still developing. At present, Charleston authorities are reporting that this mass shooting and likely right-wing domestic terrorist assault is a hate crime. While this horrific event is one more murderous and racist blow to the African-American community in Charleston–the killing of Walter Scott by a white thug cop being the...

This year's Oscar story lines have already been etched in stone — Mickey Rourke as the comeback kid, Slumdog Millionaire as the art-house wunderkind, Milk as the timely social commentary (released three weeks after Proposition 8 passed in California). Yet while the critics have been fussing over wrestlers and Mumbai quiz shows, audiences have been flocking to Gran Torino — an Oscar outcast that's been doing laps around the competition at the box office. At some point this week, the Clint Eastwood drama will pass the $100 million mark, easily surpassing the box-office receipts brought in by not only some...

Year's end is a time to reflect back on the good times and the bad, the winners and losers. As a political progressive, in an election year I usually don't have much difficulty identifying the losers. In recent years, they've usually been the candidates for whom I voted. This is odd since I vote for candidates who favor peace over war, love over hate and doing the greatest good for the greatest number instead of stiff-arming most of us and showering our nation's riches upon a privileged few. Well, 2006 was the year chickens as far as the eye could...

This pile of leftist propaganda has been "critically acclaimed", by rags such as NY Post, WaPo, etc. Richard Clarke puts on a performance worthy of an Oscar for Worst Actor. Clarke has been widely discredited. This "documentary" places nearly all the blame on the Bush Administration and barely touches on all the travesties of the Clinton Administration. Court TV's credibility is going off the deep end with the likes of Catherine Crier and Haunted Evidence

When Satch,* who graduated in June 2001, returned to my classroom last spring, he bore little physical resemblance to the gangly, bespectacled youth who once sat in my sophomore English class. He strode through the door in neatly pressed military garb, hat pressed to his right hip, a thick-chested, heavily tattooed man. I noticed that contacts replaced the Coke-bottle glasses he once wore. But when we shook hands, his smile revealed more than a glimmer of the angry, confused kid who had struggled at school. "They're shipping me to Iraq," he told me. "I leave in one week." The tone...

MIDI - I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING Will you please just shut up and sing...that's why we all are hereWe don't care for your leftist tripe...I think we've made that clear Will you please just shut up and sing...don't diss our presidentHe really does know more than you...that should be evident Will you please just shut up and sing...that's why you're up on stageWe are not fans because we think that you are oh, so sage That stuff doesn't ring...'cause you don't know a thingBecause of us, you've made big bucks...so just shut up and sing...