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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, like the political leadership of Kentucky, has been taking the Fifth. If you take the Fifth, do they have to stop torturing you right then under the new paradigm that says that we are in a permanent war, and when in war, torture and spying on any of them is legal if 1 in 260 million Americans says so? Homeland Security was fresh off its success as a cumbersome bureaucracy in New Orleans when it was impolitely called the "new Gestapo" by one of the few Americans who are American enough to stand astride...

Steven Spielberg hit back at critics of his latest film "Munich" about the targeted killing of Palestinians behind the massacre of Israelis during the 1972 Olympics, in an interview to be published Monday ahead of the picture's German and Israeli release. Spielberg, 59, told German news weekly Der Spiegel that "Munich" aims to reclaim the debate about the moral costs of the struggle against terror from "extremists" and engage moderate forces in the West and the Middle East. "Should you leave the debate to the great over-simplifiers? The extreme Jews and extreme Palestinians who consider any kind of negotiated settlement...

It remains to be seen, literally, if Steven Spielberg has switched sides, from kosher ("Schindler's List"), to treyf. His movie, "Munich," will be opening in a few days and early word has it that he has indeed gone "Hollywood." This means that he's joined the trend to the Left, and that's the way to go if you want to do lunch in that town again. If advance screenings prove accurate (the movie is set to open December 23), Spielberg has used the Olympic Massacre of 1972 to send a message that brings to mind the words of MGM tycoon Louis...