Á¢€Å“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.Á¢€ — Abraham Lincoln Tuesday evening…
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Jon Cummings
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Á¢€Å“ItÁ¢€â„¢s not a country, itÁ¢€â„¢s a company.Á¢€ The most politically daring drama on network television comes to a likely end next Tuesday Á¢€” for a second time. The saga of…
Jon Cummings
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To no oneÁ¢€â„¢s surprise, Republicans this week trotted out what promises to be one of their primary lines of attack against Barack Obama in the fall, should he win the…
Jon Cummings
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Looking back on a year that many critics hail as one of Hollywood’s best ever, it’s difficult to ignore the fact that many of this season’s Oscar-nominated films bear political…
Jon Cummings
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Silly Republicans: Don’t you know heartland rock is for Democrats? We seem to go through this every election cycle: Another GOP contender tries to trade his corporate-shill reality for some…
Jon Cummings
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Last week the Federal Communications Commission harrumphed briefly to life, handing down one of its outrageous and seemingly arbitrary fines to a broadcast network that dared show a bit of…
Jon Cummings
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“In Rudy Giuliani’s New York, where the curtain is being lowered on civil rights and civil liberties, anyone who dares to challenge the Mayor, this joyless man with the angry…
Jon Cummings
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“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to…
Jon Cummings
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Á¢€Å“Why do they hate me?Á¢€ wails Nathan Lane as the fictional (but not too fictional) President Charles H.P. Smith, early in David MametÁ¢€â„¢s new political comedy November. The reply comes…
Jon Cummings
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Py KorryÁ¢€™s excellent piece the other day about the John Woo torture memo got me thinking about, of all things, a movie trailer that I saw repeatedly over the holidays…
Jon Cummings
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“Who cares what I think? I’m not the president. I’m just a storyteller, man.” So says Bob Dylan — or, at least, Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn as Bob Dylan…
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