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  • ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’: A biggest lie of 2015

    ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’: A biggest lie of 20150

    The Washington Post has published its annual list of the “biggest Pinocchios of the year” for 2015.  The list is almost entirely composed of politicians of all stripes telling whoppers. No surprise there. What was surprising was the inclusion of the phrase “Hands up, don’t shoot” which was spawned after Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO

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  • ‘Guilt by Accusation’: Torment With No Exit

    ‘Guilt by Accusation’: Torment With No Exit0

    Even hardened veterans of media brawls can stumble. Take Alan Dershowitz’s appearance on “Tooning Out the News,” a new CBS show which features fictional animated news anchors interviewing real personalities. It’s vulgar, insulting and surreal. And there is only one way out – through the dog house. But, somehow, for some inexplicable reason, Dershowitz accepted

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  • ‘Going Big’: White House Says COVID-19 Relief Checks on Way to Americans

    ‘Going Big’: White House Says COVID-19 Relief Checks on Way to Americans0

    To stimulate a flagging economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “going big” by sending out checks directly to Americans. During the daily briefing with the White House’s coronavirus task force, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said more details are coming, but suggested the amount of money in the checks

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  • ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’

    ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’0

    If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent

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  • ‘Freud’s Last Session’: Discovering Truth with C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud

    ‘Freud’s Last Session’: Discovering Truth with C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud5

    “From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.” So goes the final line of Freud’s Last Session (2023), a real-life quote from famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, played in the new film starring Anthony Hopkins opposite Matthew Goode’s portrayal of Christian apologist C.S. Lewis. Freud, a committed atheist, is presented in a fictitious scenario, inviting

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  • ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History

    ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History0

    The director and the star of “First Man,” a forthcoming film about Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, are congratulating themselves for leaving out one of the most dramatic moments in spaceflight and, indeed, 20th-century history, namely, astronaut Armstrong’s planting the American flag on the moon. The reason: We mustn’t be “jingoistic.” What’s next? Omitting the

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