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My husband and I and 2 friends walked out of "Wolf of Wall Stret", the new DiCaprio flic, about 10 minutes into the movie. We absolutely could not stand the constant barrage of obscene language and visuals. I have never seen anything so obnoxious in my life and refused to ruin Christmas Day with such garbage. We complained at the box office and got our money back. Now, I'm about ready to write to the movie theatre and newspaper to warn others about this offensive movie. The interesting thing is that I'd seen a trailer for this movie last week,...

This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to take a second look at its ruling finding that Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl peep show wasn’t indecent and didn’t merit the $550,000 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fine that was levied against CBS. The High Court move followed on the heels of its first broadcast decency ruling in 30 years when on April 28 it ruled that so-called “fleeting” violations of the broadcast decency law can be considered indecent and result in fines for broadcasters. In the case at issue, Fox fought tooth and nail against the...

Why do liberals feel the need to use an expletive in virtually every sentence? With the advent of the Internet, it has become rather commonplace for writers to include e-mail addresses at the end of their columns to welcome input from their readers. Invariably, a respectable percentage of the responses that come to a conservative writer will of course be from members of the opposite camp. Unfortunately, these are typically not PG-rated. For example, an article that I had written after the first presidential debate evoked hundreds of e-mail messages from around the country, with many of them referring to...