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This bustling leftie docu-fomenting could make Spurlock a younger Michael Moore. Each man is from a working-class city - Flint, Mich., for Moore; Parkersburg, W. Va, for Spurlock - whose hard economic history has produced low median incomes. Each came to documentaries after working in other fields: journalism for Moore, playwrighting for Spurlock. And each puts his own quirky personality at the center of issue-driven movies; they both make ego-friendly documentaries. But where Moore is belligerent (and funny), Spurlock is laid-back (and funny). Moore, the provocateur, pokes his finger in his adversaries' chests. Spurlock plays the sweet...
...folks still don't get it: Fox news is not about George W. Bush. It's about an alternative for independent moderates and conservatives to the overwhelmingly liberal media. Snow Taylor, RICHMOND, VA...
...streamlining the Cabinet could be relatively easy. A Secretary of the Environment could represent EPA and Interior. (You could throw in the Forest Service - currently in Agriculture - and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - inexplicably at Commerce - as well.) A Secretary of Government Services could represent HHS, HUD, the VA, Education and maybe Agriculture's nutrition programs. A Secretary of the Economy could represent the rest of Commerce, the rest of Agriculture, Labor, Energy and Transportation. All three of them could be big names, with independent bases of power. And a President who really cared about alleviating poverty - or reducing...
...India but can range from $7 to $10 per page in the U.S. "Some clients don't want to spend that much, especially if they don't even know how much their damages could be," says Conrad Jacoby, owner of efficientEDD, a legal-technology consultancy in Dunn Loring, Va...
...learn that when he lived in Virginia Beach, Va., McCain participated in the "most raucous and longest beach parties of any squadron in the Navy." We learn of the strip club dancers, the toga party and the nights spent sneaking away from school to drink. We read about the "slim and blond" fashion model in Rio, whom he dated on shore leave in 1957, and their final moonlit night when she greeted him on a terrace "not dressed for dinner." We further learn that his hard-partying habits were genetic. McCain's father, a submariner-turned admiral named Jack, told...