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...federal management of public lands in the West is a war on all Americans. These lands are everyone's priceless birthright." TOM KUEKES, Carbondale, Colorado...
Such sensations were Heaney's birthright. The oldest of nine children, he was raised on Mossbawn, the family farm some 30 miles northwest of Belfast. A Protestant estate adjoined the Catholic Heaneys' land. "I was symbolically placed," he said later, "between the marks of English influence and the lure of the native experience, between 'the demesne' and 'the bog.' The demesne was walled, wooded, beyond our ken; the bog was rushy and treacherous, no place for children...
Robby Martin (Andy Garcia) and Reuben Martinez (Andy Garcia) are as different in personality as they are similar in looks. One has a good heart; he's happy without money. All he needs is his family and friends, and of course, the land of his birthright. The other brother is cruel and hurtful to the bottom of his soul; greed envelopes him. He would sacrifice his own family for money. These brothers are only cartoons--the good brother (Reuben) is a harmonica-playing angel, while the bad brother (Robby) is a polo-playing bandit, until, as in all fairy tales...
...little paranoia can be good -- especially for a police officer walking a beat or a child who is approached by a stranger. But how does a healthy distrust of government, which is the birthright of every American, turn into an unshakable conviction that the U.S. is about to be overthrown by a United Nations force made up of Hong Kong police and Russian troops? It is tempting to dismiss people with such paranoid beliefs as sick, demented individuals. But that doesn't explain the widespread membership in the U.S. in militias and other extremist groups. Experts in psychology and group...
...Simba, thought to be dead, finds a paradise and some protectors. Eventually, he grows up and, prodded by his best friend Nala, returns to claim his birthright...