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...THIS IS A CYCLE, WON'T THE SYSTEM CORRECT ITSELF...
President Woodrow Wilson called Griffith's fable about the Civil War and its aftermath "history written in lightning." Others decried it as a libel of blacks and a whitewash of the Ku Klux Klan. Both views are correct. Griffith was a racist and a film genius who poured his love for the Old South and his pioneering cinematic ingenuity into an epic that is at once malignant and magnificent...
...surprised that permission was not requested. If it had been requested, we would have said no." A spokesman for the cdu says the party cleared usage of excerpts from the song with the German music-distribution rights regulator, gema. "We checked with gema and what we are doing is correct," he says. If Merkel and her cohorts haven't been getting much satisfaction in the first weeks of the campaign, they have only themselves to blame. Michael Spreng, who managed csu chairman Edmund Stoiber's failed attempt to topple Schröder three years ago, says Merkel's first...
...advance by turning our backs on rational thought and empirical evidence? Whether it be fundamental questions like the origin of the species or such applied problems as HIV prevention, global warming and lack of health care, the empirical world will always win out. Self-serving or politically and religiously "correct" beliefs--whether from the right or the left--only distract us from a real understanding of ourselves and our world, to our eventual cost...
...These subjects are controversial enough that I do expect, and have already received, some knee-jerk reactions: on the right, saying that this [is a way of saying] that the origins of this nation aren't Christian, or some kind of politically correct glorifying of savages; and on the left, saying that I am trashing them by saying they are violent, and not perfect stewards of nature. In fact, Indians were human beings, just like anybody else. Like anybody else, they did some absolutely amazing stuff, and some stuff that makes you roll your eyes...