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...Labor unions must let members decide whether to play politics. (Note to Democrats: if this one makes you mad, you'll be pleased to know that you'll be the chief beneficiaries of No. 9, so stay tuned.) In 1996 the unions spent tens of millions of dollars on an independent-expenditure campaign against Republicans--even though as many as 40% of union members vote for Republicans. (Full disclosure: I was on the losing end of that one.) I would suggest requiring labor unions, or any such dues-collecting entities, to give members the option of whether to use their...
...industry, Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have...
...begin with, one way of preventing divorce is to stop bad marriages before they start. The best part of Louisiana's law requires serious premarital counseling. So many of us, under the sway of Mad-Love Disease, haven't got a clue about what we're entering into. A marriage license should be at least as hard to obtain as a driver's license. Requiring the marital equivalent of being able to parallel park might knock a little sense into heads more concerned with registering at Bloomingdale's than deciding whether the kids will be baptized...
Pessimists say don't believe it. The liberty-loving democrats of Hong Kong are doomed to fall victim to China's power-mad communists. Even if Beijing's intentions were good--and they're not--its authoritarian habits and dictatorial rule will not tolerate Hong Kong's freedoms for long. Hong Kong's leading democrat, Martin Lee, predicts that a free press, rule of law, the right of assembly and of political demonstrations will disappear if the people of Hong Kong and the international community fail to fight Beijing for them. Tiananmen was the "real face" of the communists, says...
...This mad, mad world is inventively drawn; Smith and Jones make a finely mismatched pair. But, as in many comedies, all the good stuff is in Act I. So much energy is spent on the premise that little is left for the payoff. Men in Black suffocates from the facetiousness that gave it life, and the movie ends up less like Independence Day than like the hectic Mars Attacks...