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...notion of a bailout for Main Street didn't have enough hurdles to overcome, Obama may also need to ask for upwards of $50 billion more for the already approved bank bailout to deal with the continuing credit crunch. Considering that nine Democrats disregarded Obama's personal appeal last week and voted against giving his new Administration the second half of the $700 billion allocated by Congress in September, adding $50 billion more to the stimulus could poison the well for Dems adamantly opposed to further aid for Wall Street...
...Decades ago, in the wake of Halloween and Black Christmas, exploitation filmmakers scurried for other holidays to turn into horrors. In 1981 some Canadian geniuses got the notion to add psychopathic gore to the day of romantic mush and put it all to the title of an old Rodgers and Hart song. The gaudy box-office take for My Bloody Valentine's 3-D remake will surely cue more feast-day gorefests. Expect to see The Scarin' of the Green on St. Patrick's Day and Peter Choppin'tail for Easter, as well as My Pukey Purim and, every four...
...this year when megachurch pastor Warren delivers the invocation and the Rev. Joseph Lowery, an African-American Evangelical, offers the benediction. At a time when the United States is more religiously diverse than at any other point in its history, and Obama's entire campaign was built on the notion of a newfound inclusiveness and multiculturalism, it seems a glaring omission. (See TIME's special report on civil rights and the Obama presidency...
...creation of a "Ministry of Immigration and National Identity", for example, was applauded by rightists and deplored on the left with equal vigor - and for the same reason: the notion that safeguarding French identity is directly tied to controlling foreigners coming to France...
...communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons. The reasons aren't hard to speculate about. The roots of this development go back at least to the 1930s and Paul Robeson's singing "Ol' Man River" in Showboat. The therapeutic notion that suffering confers dignity and authority has spread just as the suffering of African Americans over generations has become universally acknowledged. Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language. Our homegrown Martin Luther...