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...right-wing fantasy about Hollywood: A year ago, the lockstep liberals who run the movie studios received a directive from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ordering them to finally make some films about the Iraq-Afghanistan catastrophe. The moguls dutifully complied, bankrolling top directors and Oscar-winning stars to make serious, worthy films eviscerating the Bush Administration's war policy...
...Walk Hard is a clever blend of very broad, occasionally raunchy gag-smithing and an unspoken, yet palpable, social shrewdness. For the moment, at least, this guy is somehow plugged into our half-formed, half-subversive thoughts. Walk Hard is actually talking about - well, all right, goofily alluding to - serious issues, though its creators would, I suspect, rather die than admit that...
...never happen. Why not admit that allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. provides cheap labor to fuel our country's economic growth? Illegal immigrants are here because we needed them--and we probably still do. We should stop the political posturing, face reality, legalize their status now, take serious steps to close the borders and admit future immigrants in accordance with predetermined thresholds...
...pollutant like any other. The fact that at international climate meetings the White House has actually advertised state efforts like California's as evidence of American action on global warming only adds to suspicions that the EPA's ruling is essentially political. "If dealing with the most serious environmental threat of our time in our biggest state tackling its largest source of greenhouse gas pollution isn't extraordinary and compelling, I don't know what those words mean," says Marston...
...opinion and I understand where he's coming from, he can only go so far because he is part of the Administration, but the bottom line is, it's very, very disappointing. I think, again, this is news that will go all over the world that they are not serious...