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Thumbs Down: Roger Ebert Helps A Terrorist March 26, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel Normally, it would be unfair to attack Roger Ebert for his addiction to food. Normally, it would be in poor taste to hold the calorically-gifted film-critic’s insatiable taste-buds against him. Normally. But now, Roger Ebert’s irresistible yen for a sandwich is literally his excuse to defend an Islamic terrorist, Ibrahim Parlak. Parlak, who is under deportation orders, owns a restaurant in Harbert, Michigan—a restaurant Ebert frequents, with apparently great appetite. In a letter to the U.S. government opposing Parlak’s deportation, Ebert wrote, “[H]e offered to come to...

During the debate last night, the President pointed out that Senator Kerry, in his 20 years in the Senate, had authored only five bills which ever became law. The bills have been listed on other threads, and most were pretty self-explanatory. But one stuck out a bit as being more mysterious: A bill for the relief of Kil Joon Yu Callahan. This is a private bill. I was curious as to who Kil Joon Yu Callahan was. So I did a little research. Kerry introduced this bill during the 99th Congress in 1986, but it died at the end of...