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Moses has been elected vice-president of the National Riffle Association (NRA), and his career move has significantly disrupted my peace of mind. You see, to me Charlton Heston has always been the white-bearded patriarch standing atop Mount Nebo at the end of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", bellowing sonorously, "proclaim liberty throughout the land!" to Yvonne De Carlo and John Derek. In fact, I've had to endure feeling slightly blasphemous and sacrilegious for most of my life during Passover seders, as Charlton Heston has been the only image my mind has been able to conjure...
...year by the mismanagement of fire arms, he adopted the Disraeli defense, dismissing statistics as just another sort of lie. In short, Moses was arguing that automatic weapons were no more dangerous than Barbie Dolls and that they should be no more difficult to buy. It was not the patriarch's finest hour...
...Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian Identity compound has been making a big point of how Jesus ministered to outcasts. "My king ate with publicans and sinners and had a prostitute wash his feet," Millar told TIME last week as he sat in a black Lincoln Continental near Elohim City. The reason for these...
Bill Cosby, in his initial public response to the murder of his son, seemed aware of this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between...
Even Virginia McCaskey, daughter of Chicago Bears patriarch George Halas, seemed tickled to hand the Halas Trophy over to the Packers after their 30-13 defeat of the Carolina Panthers in the National Football Conference title game. Defensive end Reggie White, the proclaimed Minister of Defense, who turns every podium into a pulpit, said to the congregation, "Green Bay, I hope you're proud of us, because we are proud of you." Quarterback Brett Favre, who has been through a little too much for his 27 years, reminded the flock of a promise he had made. "I remember telling...